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Britain's telecoms companies could be fined up to 10% of turnover or 100,000 pounds ($133,140) a day if they contravene a ban on using equipment made by China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd under a new law put forward on Tuesday.
Reuters
Alibaba CEO Daniel Zhang has described plans by Chinese regulators to tighten restrictions on internet companies as "timely and necessary."
CNN
Chinese handset rivals of Huawei Technologies including Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo are making aggressive moves to seize market share from their giant rival, after stepped-up U.S. sanctions hobbled Huawei's supply chains, industry insiders say.
Yahoo! Asia News
U.S. business activity expanded at the fastest rate in more than five years in November led by the quickest pickup in manufacturing since September 2014, a survey showed on Monday in an indication the economy keeps making progress at clambering out of the COVID-19 recession even as infections surge.
Reuters
Samsung's plans for 2021 aren't what we all expected.
9to5Google
Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are investing more heavily in software, subscriptions and content.
CNBC
Singapore's economy contracted by 5.8% in the third quarter compared to a year ago - coming in better than initial estimates, the country's Ministry of Trade and Industry said on Monday.
CNBC
The Shenzhen-based company filed 8,607 wireless patents in the January to October period
South China Morning Post
Corning has announced a new breakthrough in glass-ceramic technology, Corning Guardiant. Under test methods approved by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), paint and coatings containing Corning Guardiant were shown to kill more than 99.9% of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
Company release
The Wolverine V2 costs $100 and it's available today.
engadget
The new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon are nearly identical to Intel-powered Macs.
engadget
More than 30 major Japanese firms will begin experiments next year towards issuing a common, private digital currency to promote digitalisation in one of the world's most cash-loving countries, the group's organising body said on Thursday.
Reuters
Verizon and Apple are teaming up on another sales pitch for the 5G iPhone 12 - and this time, they're aiming at business customers.
CNN
China is cashing in on fears that the West's faltering economic recovery will keep interest rates near record lows for a long time.
CNN
The NUC M15 is a premium productivity laptop meant to compete with the XPS and Spectre computers of the world
The Verge
German chipmaker Infineon Technologies is relatively well insulated from geopolitical tensions between the United States and China thanks to its focus on power-management chips, CEO Reinhard Ploss said on Wednesday.
Reuters
SoftBank doubled its internal target for selling down assets this year in preparation for a potential "worst case scenario" in the next two to three months as coronavirus cases spike, CEO Masayoshi Son said.
CNBC
Apple said it was protecting degrading batteries
The Verge
The region is grappling with a second wave of infections and a subsequent new round of lockdowns and social restrictions.
CNBC
U.S. retail sales increased less than expected in October and could slow further, restrained by spiraling new COVID-19 infections and declining household income as millions of unemployed Americans lose government financial support.
Reuters
Nation's leadership pours money into grooming semiconductor talent and building new facilities, citing need for self-sufficiency
Wall Street Journal
A key witness involved in the arrest of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou two years ago has decided not to testify in the Canadian court as part of Meng's ongoing witness cross-examination, the court heard on Monday.
Reuters
Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems' non-profit group Noyb alleges Apple's use of a tracking code on iPhones breaches European law.
CNBC
Playing video games may improve your mental health and make you happier, according to a scientific study that used industry data from gaming companies to analyze players' wellbeing.
CNN
Huawei selling Honor brand to consortium of agents and dealers to keep the unit alive (Nov 17, 2020)
Huawei is selling its budget brand smartphone unit Honor to a consortium of over 30 agents and dealers in a bid to keep it alive, the company and the consortium said on Tuesday.
Reuters
Qualcomm on Friday received a license from the U.S. government to sell 4G mobile phone chips to China's Huawei, an exemption to U.S. trade restrictions imposed amid rising tensions with China.
Reuters
For the past two months inventor Yezin Al-Qaysi has been riding the Toronto subway in Canada wearing a huge black "mad helmet".
BBC News
Microsoft is directing shareholders' attention to revenue from games and gaming services, which includes sales of games for a variety of devices, including the PlayStation.
CNBC
China's bureau for regulating monopolies, the State Administration for Market Regulation or SAMR, released draft rules that define for the first time what constitutes anti-competitive behavior.
CNBC
Amazon on Thursday said it shifted part of the computing for its Alexa voice assistant to its own custom-designed chips, aiming to make the work faster and cheaper while moving it away from chips supplied by Nvidia.
Reuters
Cisco beat expectations while delivering the fourth consecutive quarter of revenue declines on an annualized basis.
CNBC
The tablet had its best October ever, ahead of the next-gen launches
The Verge
The Trump administration on Thursday unveiled an executive order prohibiting U.S. investments in Chinese firms that Washington says are owned or controlled by the Chinese military, ramping up pressure on Beijing after the U.S. election.
Reuters
"We're recovering, but to a different economy," Powell said during a virtual panel discussion at the European Central Bank's Forum on Central Banking.
CNN
Another way to stream Apple originals such as Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet.
engadget
U.S. consumer prices were unchanged in October, the lowest reading in five months, suggesting that a price spike over the summer is beginning to fade as coronavirus cases spread.
AP
PlayStation 4 is the most popular console of its generation, with over 112 million sold worldwide.
BBC News
China's draft anti-monopoly rules will likely hit the country's major internet companies, which were already fighting off rivals that were taking away chunks of their market share, Morgan Stanley said in a report.
CNBC
Singapore on Thursday announced a new work visa for foreign executives of technology firms, a sector the low-tax global business hub hopes will power future economic growth.
Reuters
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna noted in a letter to President-elect Joe Biden that 70% of the tech talent in the U.S. works for the private sector, and the government needs to secure strategic access to that brain power.
CNBC
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