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President Trump told reporters on Sunday that Apple CEO Tim Cook privately made a "very compelling argument" that the administration's tariffs on Chinese-assembled goods have made an unfair impact on the California-based tech giant, because its chief rival, Samsung, has conducted most of its manufacturing in South Korea and did not have to pay the levy.
Fox News
"We'll see what happens. I'm making a decision tomorrow," Trump said.
CNBC
Our reporting uncovers a Mate X delay, and the possibility of more displays
Techradar
Microsoft is warning Windows 10 users to update their operating system immediately because of two "critical" vulnerabilities.
CNN
Nvidia's data center business is seeing revenue declines, while AMD is ascendant.
CNBC
Japan has $1.12 trillion Treasury securities, and China, $1.11 trillion.
CNBC
Industrial production in China grew just 4.8% in July compared to a year earlier, according to China's National Bureau of Statistics. That's the worst growth for that sector in 17 years.
CNN
China has severely restricted imports of gold since May, bullion industry sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters, in a move that could be aimed at curbing outflows of dollars and bolstering its yuan currency as economic growth slows.
Reuters
The yield curve is blaring a recession warning.
Fox News
Fingerprints, facial recognition and other personal information from Biostar 2 discovered on publicly accessible database
The Guardian
The $600 million supercomputer will be the world's fastest.
CNET
He suggests Skyworks Solutions, Texas Instruments, Best Buy and Hasbro will be among the biggest winners from the tariff delay.
CNBC
You can learn of good replies without sifting through the trash.
engadget
Europe is Apple's second-largest market.
Motley Fool
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is prepared to break up major technology companies if necessary by undoing past mergers, Chairman Joe Simons said in an interview with Bloomberg published on Tuesday, as the regulator probes anti-competitive practices in the sector.
Reuters
Those tariffs will now be delayed until December 15.
New York Times
Singapore's economy contracted 3.3% in the second quarter of 2019, final official data showed on Tuesday, and the government cuts its full-year growth forecast range.
Reuters
To Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon, the current economic environment doesn't feel like the pre-crisis days of August 2007. But he identifies at least one thing that could cause the economy to go off track: The trade war.
CNN
South Korea is removing Japan from a list of trusted trading partners, escalating a dispute with its neighbor that is already disrupting the global supply chain for big tech companies.
CNN
Bank of America sees a greater than 30% chance of a recession in the next year, based on recent data.
CNBC
But the iPhone won't be the only foldable. The iPad may be the first of Apple's devices to bend to the trend.
CNET
Austrian sensor specialist AMS triggered a bidding war for Osram on Sunday, saying it was ready to pay $3.8 billion for the German lighting group's shares, 10% more than finance investors Bain Capital and Carlyle have already offered.
Reuters
The country may use it to create stability.
engadget
Facebook lost a federal appeal on Thursday in a lawsuit over facial-recognition data. That could lead to the company paying massive fines over its privacy practices.
Fox News
Japan has approved shipment of a high-tech material to South Korea for the first time since imposing export curbs last month, but doubled down on political pressure and warned it could broaden restrictions on deliveries to its Asian neighbor.
Japan Today
The physical appearance and some headlining features of the Google Pixel 4 and 4 XL have already been confirmed by Google itself, but there are still plenty of specs that Google still hasn't said anything about.
9to5Google
SoftBank's massive tech fund is pulling in big profits.
CNN
Apple's first foldable iOS device could launch in 2021, according to analysts at UBS.
Business Insider
China has said it is prepared to fight, if necessary. And it has one hugely powerful weapon up its sleeve: it's the American government's biggest creditor.
CNN
The device is due to be announced on September 6th
The Verge
The trade war between the United States and China entered a more dangerous phase on Monday, as Beijing allowed its currency to weaken, Chinese enterprises stopped making new purchases of American farm goods and President Trump's Treasury Department formally labeled China a currency manipulator.
New York Times
Shares of chipmakers, retailers, Apple and Wynn Resorts tumble on fears that the U.S. and China's trade war is escalating.
CNBC
Investors are so nervous about the trade war with China that they are frantically scooping up US government bonds and pushing yields sharply lower in the process.
CNN
IBM announced on Monday a new blockchain network aimed at improving manual and cumbersome supply chain management.
Reuters
List of vulnerable products purchased by the DoD includes Lexmark printers, GoPro cameras, and Lenovo computers.
ZDNet
The Trump administration on Monday designated China a "currency manipulator," after the country's central bank allowed its currency to weaken amid the ongoing trade dispute.
CNN
Foxconn is exploring the sale of its new US$8.8 billion display panel factory in China, people familiar with the matter told Reuters, as demand for the product wanes amid an intensifying US-China trade war.
Reuters
Japan will remove South Korea from its list of trusted trade partners, deepening a bitter row between the two countries.
BBC News
Japan's Sharp will eventually withdraw from the business of manufacturing organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels for smartphones. The company lost the competition with Korean and Chinese display makers.
BusinessKorea
Shares of Apple supplier Sharp tumbled 14% on Friday given concerns about an escalating China-U.S. trade war, even as the Japanese firm said a day earlier that it would build a plant in Vietnam to ease any impact on its business.
Reuters
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