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You won't be able to buy Bitcoin with your Apple Card, and you'd better not hack the iPhone associated with your account.
CNET
New tariff plan wipes out $41 billion in market cap, as analyst sees as much as $3 billion hit to earnings
MarketWatch
Huawei is testing a smartphone equipped with Hongmeng, the company's self-developed operating system, which could potentially go on sale by the end of this year, Chinese state-media outlet Global Times reported.
Reuters
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will add a new tariff on $300 billion of Chinese-made products on September 1, which would effectively put a tax on all Chinese goods coming into the United States.
CNN
South Korean chipmakers are hitting a dead end in their quest to find alternatives for key Japanese materials that have been slapped with export restrictions, raising the prospect of major disruption to their operations in the coming months.
Reuters
Fitbit said the outlook change was due to weaker sales of its Versa Lite device.
CNBC
Even models dating back to 2016.
engadget
31 Jul 2019
Trump's trade wars would directly impact console production
The Verge
The US-China trade war might be having a chilling effect on business investment, but it's not derailing the splurge in share buybacks.
CNN
Apple's iPhone made up less than half of the company's sales for the first time since 2012.
CNBC
Doctors have turned the brain signals for speech into written sentences in a research project that aims to transform how patients with severe disabilities communicate in the future.
The Guardian
We've heard of phones with extreme edge curvatures in the past few weeks, and we soon learned that the Mate 30 Pro will deliver such a design.
BGR
Southeast Asian ride-hailing firm Grab said Monday it will invest $2 billion into Indonesia over the next five years using funds from SoftBank Group.
CNBC
In one of the biggest-ever data breaches, a hacker gained access to more than 100 million Capital One customers' accounts and credit card applications earlier this year.
CNN
The US says if it doesn't get the changes it wants, it will not apply 'developing country' status to countries it thinks no longer qualify for special treatment.
South China Morning Post
After iPhone sales have stalled over the last few quarters, Apple's looking to regain some momentum.
CNET
Profits earned by China's industrial firms fell 3.1% in June from a year earlier, according to the country's National Bureau of Statistics.
CNBC
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he wanted Apple to build its plants in the United States and expects the technology firm to announce it will build one in Texas.
Reuters
Tech conglomerate SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) will invest $40 billion in its forthcoming second Vision Fund, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
Reuters
This might be the perfect pairing
CNET
An update is rolling out that finally plugs iOS directly into new TVs
engadget
The global economy is expected to expand by 3.2% in 2019, the IMF says
CNBC
Alibaba said Tuesday it is opening up the Alibaba.com platform, allowing American companies to sell their products to small- and mid-sized business buyers around the world.
CNN
In a shot across the bow of online titans like Facebook, Google and Amazon, the Justice Department announced Tuesday it has opened a wide-ranging antitrust investigation of big technology companies and whether their online platforms have hurt competition, suppressed innovation or otherwise harmed consumers.
Fox News
OpenAI, a company working on AI for the public good, is committing to build with Microsoft new Azure AI supercomputing technologies, and getting a $1 billion infusion from Microsoft as part of the arrangement.
ZDNet
China's STAR Market kicked off its second day of trading on Tuesday with sharp falls in most listed shares a day after they posted average gains of 140%, underscoring the volatility of the country's new Nasdaq-style board.
Reuters
According to figures from the data research firm Rhodium Group, investment from China hit an all-time high of $46.5 billion in 2016. The following year that amount dropped to $29.7 billion before plummeting to a nine-year low of $5.4 billion in 2018. During that two-year period, investment declined 88 percent.
The Hill
Documents leaked to The Washington Post revealed that Huawei secretly worked with the North Korean government on its wireless network.
CNBC
Trade wars are continuing to prompt Apple to rethink some of its manufacturing and supply chain options, with the iPhone maker said to be examining the situation of an ongoing tiff between South Korea and Japan, one which could lead to Apple using China's BOE for future iPhone display panels.
CNET
Samsung Display is in talks with SKC over the supply of colorless polyimide (CPI) used for foldable smartphones. This represents the first time that Korean corporations collaborate to substitute local products for items that are under the Japanese government's export control.
BusinessKorea
Russia is offering to supply etching gas to South Korea, in a move that could help Seoul get around Japanese restrictions on exports to its neighbor of the key element for semiconductor production.
Nikkei Asian Review
China is expected to report on Monday that economic growth slowed to its weakest pace in at least 27 years in the second quarter, reinforcing the case for more stimulus as a bruising trade war with the United States drags on.
Reuters
The expected decline in profit is due to the lower than expected sales of its OLED TVs and the continued losses from its mobile business.
ZDNet
Japan's tightening of controls on the export of semiconductor materials to South Korea could hit Samsung's production hard.
Nikkei Asian Review
China continues to stress that the US must remove all the tariffs placed on Chinese goods as a condition for reaching a trade deal.
Bloomberg
Samsung Electronics is likely to say second-quarter profit more than halved when it reports preliminary earnings on Friday, data showed, as a drop in memory chip shipments to China's embattled Huawei exacerbated a price-squeezing supply glut.
Reuters
"It was embarrassing. I pushed it through before it was ready," said Samsung Electronics CEO DJ Koh. "I do admit I missed something on the foldable phone, but we are in the process of recovery."
Independent
America's trade war with China is once again poised to switch off the nation's last television factory.
Reuters
Jony Ive, a close creative collaborator with Apple Inc co-founder Steve Jobs whose iPhone and other designs fueled Apple's rise to become a $1 trillion company, will leave later this year to form an independent design company.
Reuters
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