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Declining visitor numbers and a growing reduction in exhibitor bookings has led Deutsche Messe to cancel CeBIT 2019 as the once popular trade show is no longer able to attract the up to one million attendees it did at the height of its popularity.
Techradar
The Supreme Court on Monday wrestled with whether to allow a 40-year-old legal doctrine to derail a class-action lawsuit arguing that Apple uses its monopoly control over the iPhone app market to overcharge customers for apps.
Ars Technica
Three years after it first launched, Google is making its cell service a little more official today. Project Fi is graduating into something a little more ambitious and getting a new name in the process: Google Fi. But the bigger news is that it's also going to support more phones - a lot of phones - including the iPhone and "the majority of Android devices."
The Verge
Company release
New Zealand government's move to prevent Huawei supplying a local mobile network with 5G equipment has raised questions about why the UK appears less concerned about use of the Chinese company's technology.
BBC News
Huawei has officially released the Mobile Automation Engine (MAE) solution, which accelerates full-scenario autonomous driving in mobile networks.
Company release
Apple continued its downward slide Tuesday after US President Donald Trump suggested that 10 percent tariffs could be placed on mobile phones, like the iPhone, and laptops made in China.
Bloomberg
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8150 and MediaTek's Helio P80 are the top two chipsets in an AI benchmark.
Andorid Authority
Under the agreement, Oppo will make payments to Nokia for a multi-year license period.
Company release
Arranged in a 4x4 grid, they'd let capture 3D movies and replace people or objects in a shot.
engadget
China is taking its rivalry with the U.S. to the heavens, spending at least $9 billion to build a celestial navigation system and cut its dependence on the American-owned GPS amid heightening tensions between the two countries.
Bloomberg
The announcement came after Reuters reported on the negotiations between Logitech and Plantronics last Friday. The companies confirmed the talks on Sunday, but said they had now been terminated.
Reuters
Apple urges the Supreme Court to throw the case out, arguing that it's not selling anything but only operating a marketplace.
NBC News
Said to be considering subsidies for countries that avoid the hardware
The Verge
LG Electronics vice chairman and CEO Jo Seong-jin said the company will promote automation of suppliers' manufacturing units as part of efforts to strengthen business partnership.
Korea Herald
The CSIRO investment will include the development of advanced imaging of Earth from satellites, in addition to cutting-edge data science to support the growth of AI technology.
SmartCompany
IBM Thailand hopes to make the Southeast Asian country a sales hub for the Indochina subregion and leverage AI and blockchain to help local businesses digitally transform.
Bangkok Post
Xiaomi is looking to cement its status as India's leading smartphone provider with plans to increase its presence in the country from 500 retail stores to 5,000 by 2020.
CNBC
We didn't see this coming!
Mashable
The head of Nokia's mobile networks arm, its largest business unit, is leaving the Finnish company as part of changes designed to position the company for the 5G telecoms era, Nokia said on Thursday.
Reuters
Apple's share price has tumbled more than 20% since October, hurting other stocks and infecting the wider market.
BBC News
Apple has cut production orders in recent weeks for all three iPhone models launched in September, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing sources.
Reuters
ITRI received three 2018 R&D 100 Awards on November 16 in Orlando, Florida. ITRI's technologies were selected as winners for innovation in the Software/Services, IT/Electrical, and Mechanical Devices/Materials categories.
Company release
5G will unlock the potential of artificial intelligence, Samsung's network boss says, and the South Korean tech giant will invest $22 billion in the next-generation network to secure 20 percent market share by 2020.
ZDNet
Dialog Semiconductor said on Wednesday it was not seeing a hit to demand from its main customer, Apple, after some suppliers issued profit warnings due to weakness in iPhone sales.
Reuters
Cisco stock rose 5 percent after the company reported better-than-expected earnings for the first quarter of its 2019 fiscal year.
CNBC
At this point, Samsung apparently just wants to fold all the things.
BGR
Larry Kudlow confirms that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has restarted trade talks with his Chinese counterpart
CNBC
"It is alarming to uncover that producers are labelling black powders as graphene and selling them for top dollar, while in reality, they contain mostly cheap graphite"
New Electronics
Blockchains can be used to create "smart contracts" to guarantee other agreements between two parties.
BBC News
An earlier 5G-only modem, the XMM 8060, "is becoming a development platform" rather than a commercial product, said an Intel spokeswoman. Thus Intel "will miss the 2019 5G launches, but it is targeting large-scale rollouts from customers such as Apple and [partner] Spreadtrum," said Malik Saadi, vice president of strategic technologies for market watcher ABI Research.
EE Times
The next generation console war is coming
The Verge
Samsung expects to ship a million of these newfangled devices, but the price will be steep
The Verge
Arm will ease up its investment in research and development after two years of rapid growth even as it pushes to meet ambitious targets of doubling its UK headcount by 2021.
The Telegraph
Shares in iPhone parts supplier Lumentum plunged after the maker of optical devices on Monday cut its fiscal second-quarter revenue guidance by roughly 17% and its profit outlook by 25%. The slashed guidance sent down shares in presumed customer Apple.
Investor's Business Daily
Infineon Technologies has acquired Siltectra, a start-up based in Dresden. A purchase price of EUR124 million was agreed on with the venture capital investor MIG Fonds, the main shareholder.
Company release
"This will be one of Japan's biggest IPOs yet, with proceeds expected to reach around 2.5 trillion yen ($22 billion). "
Nikkei Asian Review
Lenovo's results are strong, buoyed by the break-even of Motorola worldwide
ZDNet
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