Ring in 2021 with Samsung's latest smartphones

Speculation has swirled around Chinese billionaire Jack Ma's whereabouts after reports surfaced that the high-profile businessman has not made a public appearance in more than two months.

China's three biggest telcos saw their shares drop as much as 5% in Hong Kong on Monday, the first trading session since the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) said it would delist the firms under a plan China branded "political" and of "limited" impact.

Q3 2020 was the second-strongest quarter for venture capital investments to U.S. companies ever, according to CB Insights.

South Korean prosecutors on Wednesday requested a nine-year prison term for Samsung's de facto chief, Lee Jae-yong, during his bribery retrial, where Lee apologized and vowed not to be implicated in similar allegations in an apparent plea for leniency.

The approach of cutting off China's technology companies could continue under a Biden presidency, said Adam Segal, director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold is one of the most futuristic devices of the year - the world's first foldable PC. But like so many other first-generation products, it's not for everyone.

LG's stylus-equipped Stylo series usually ends up among the most popular mid-range phones every year, and in 2021 it seems like there might be two options.

The firm allegedly used thousands of forced labor workers from the Muslim region of Xinjiang

Corellium helps customers find bugs in Apple's mobile operating system. Apple aimed to shut it down.

Let the countdown to the Countess begin.

A good indication of Android flagship trends for 2021

The State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) announced in a statement that it is investigating Alibaba Group for "suspicion of monopolistic conduct." This caused the stock of China's largest online trading platform to crash, whose value fell by more than $100 billion.

The world stocked up on laptop and desktop computers in 2020 at a level not seen since the iPhone debuted in 2007, and manufacturers still are months away from fulfilling outstanding orders, hardware industry executives and analysts said.

Everything should become official in January

Chinese tech giant Alibaba is being investigated by regulators over monopolistic practices. China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) made the announcement on Thursday.

Vietnam and the UK concluded a free-trade agreement that will see 99% of tariffs between the two countries eliminated after seven years.

At one time Motorola was as good as it got for Android updates, at times beating even Google's own phones to the punch.

Xiaomi is often the first company to launch phones with new Qualcomm Snapdragon processors (even if it's only by a week or two), and the new Snapdragon 888 will be no exception.

The U.S. economy grew at a record pace in the third quarter, fueled by more than $3 trillion in pandemic relief.

The law doesn't love it when competitors promise to cooperate in certain ways.

Its back can change color in sync with your breathing

The firm plans to raise $525 million to invest in a technology company.

Millions of Americans have awaited aid for months as Congress failed to agree on another plan to boost a health-care system and economy buckling under the weight of the pandemic.

Samsung remains the biggest smartphone maker in the world at the end of 2020, but the company has never come closer to losing its spot to another Android OEM than it did this year.

Microsoft may go down the same route as Apple in shifting away from Intel for its products, with the software giant said to be working on its own processor designs that may end up in its Surface computer line.

Apple has placed supplier Wistron on probation, saying on Saturday it would not award the Taiwanese contract manufacturer new business until it addressed the way workers were treated at its southern India plant.

Failed bid apparently meant to placate regulators

The United States added dozens of Chinese companies, including the country's top chipmaker SMIC and Chinese drone manufacturer SZ DJI Technology Co Ltd, to a trade blacklist on Friday as U.S. President Donald Trump's administration ratchets up tensions with China in his final weeks in office.

Starting with the Snapdragon 888

European mobile operators are starting to consider Samsung Electronics, long seen as a non-starter, in the race to replace China's Huawei as the supplier of their fledgling 5G systems, although early talks suggest it will still be an uphill struggle.

China's Huawei said on Thursday it would invest 200 million euros in building a mobile phone network equipment factory in the east of France, pressing ahead with the roll-out despite French curbs on firms using its 5G gear.

The Commission on Thursday set out a number of commitments that Google must follow over the next 10 years.

Makers of cars and electronic devices from TVs to smartphones are sounding alarm bells about a global shortage of chips, which is causing manufacturing delays as consumer demand bounces back from the coronavirus crisis.

Fitness apps have seen a steep rise in users during the pandemic.

One of Huawei's European communications managers has resigned from the Chinese firm over concerns about its role in the surveillance of Muslim Uighurs.

Telecoms equipment maker Nokia's said it expects operating margins at its mobile networks business will be flat in 2021, it said on Wednesday in an update on strategy to streamline the Finnish company into four business groups.

Samsung Electronics on Wednesday signed a partnership with IBM to combine "edge computing" with private 5G networks, the latest tie-up among big technology firms trying to help customers automate production.

In the meantime, current users can download an enhanced TikTok app.

Apple plans to raise iPhone manufacturing by nearly 30% to up to 96 million units in the first half of 2021, Japanese financial daily Nikkei reported on Tuesday, prompting another jump in the shares of the California-based tech giant.