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Arm, the world's leading supplier of CPU and GPU designs, just announced that it plans to transfer the IoT Services Group (ISG), which includes the IoT Platform and Treasure Data teams, to its parent company SoftBank.
Forbes
A new video-encoding technology that promises to cut data use by at least half has been announced, after three years of talks involving some of the tech industry's largest players.
BBC News
The phone giant becomes the latest company to move its product launch online as the coronavirus pandemic rages on.
CNET
Walmart is launching Walmart+ in July, according to a report by Vox's Recode.
CNBC
The U.K. government is drawing up plans to strip Huawei gear from Britain's 5G networks by the end of the year, The Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph newspapers reported.
CNBC
Verizon paused advertising with Facebook after seeing unacceptable Facebook content show up alongside of Verizon advertising, CEO Hans Vestberg said in an interview.
CNBC
The four leading technology stocks have all surpassed a one trillion dollar market cap, reaching a landmark first seen at the end of January.
CNBC
Nintendo has condemned alleged abuse by well-known competitive gamers as "absolutely impermissible".
BBC News
Huang waits by a workbench for the welder to pass the next metal tray. There's only a handful of staff in the factory. Half the building is in darkness.
BBC News
At Samsung Electronics, demand for its chips from data centres bulking up to meet a surge in work-from-home traffic was not likely enough to offset muted sales of its smartphones in the second quarter, analysts said.
Reuters
Amazon gave third-party sellers a placeholder date of the week of Oct. 5 for Prime Day, according to an email obtained by CNBC.
CNBC
Chipmaker Intel is the latest U.S. firm to invest a large sum of money in India's Jio Platforms.
CNBC
The head of the French cybersecurity agency ANSSI said there would not be a total ban on using equipment from Huawei in the rollout of the French 5G telecoms network, but that it was pushing French telcos to avoid switching to the Chinese company.
Reuters
Suddenly, the exclusive OLED market is getting pretty crowded.
Yahoo!News
Big tech companies including Google parent Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Facebook Inc. face a swath of proposed European regulations aimed at curbing their alleged anticompetitive behavior, making them pay more taxes and compelling them to shoulder more responsibility for illegal content on their platforms, said a top European Union official.
MarketWatch
Apple is pushing its suppliers to cut production delays for its next-generation iPhone range after coronavirus lockdowns in China and the U.S. put the technology giant behind schedule.
CNBC
Scientists around the world are racing to develop Covid-19 vaccines and there's news almost daily about steps forward -- this week, there was "encouraging" preliminary data for some vaccine candidates and word from top health officials that the United States could be on track to have a vaccine by the end of the year.
CNN
The Pixel 4A is still nowhere to be found
The Verge
A kit and AI digital assistant "Rosie" guides users through a daily care plan.
engadget
IFA will be the the first big in-person tech event post-lockdown.
engadget
North picked up where Google Glass left off, and now it's a part of Google.
Ars Technica
Apple will close 30 additional stores in the United States by Thursday.
CNBC
'Nearby Share' beta test is running already
The Verge
The updates to Nvidia's vGPU software could help organizations remotely leverage virtual reality or better collaborate on computer-aided design.
ZDNet
Are there any Wear OS manufacturers and customers left to buy Qualcomm's new chip?
Ars Technica
Telecoms can no longer use federal funds to purchase their equipment
The Verge
It has been a rough quarter for the US economy, with the country plunging into a pandemic-fueled recession. Yet the stock market is alive and kicking - in fact, it's having its best quarter in more than 20 years.
CNN
Promising new features for smart home developers and users
The Verge
Beijing is pushing back on a decision by India to ban dozens of Chinese mobile apps as tensions between the countries continue to rise.
CNN
The Trump administration's new restrictions come in response to a new national security law that will extend China's influence over Hong Kong.
The New York Times
"Although many countries have made some progress, globally, the pandemic is actually speeding up," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a virtual news conference.
CNBC
Sony's image sensor business aims to replicate PlayStation's success to address its reliance on a handful of manufacturers in the fickle smartphone market: It plans to sell software by subscription for data-analyzing sensors in situ.
Reuters
Might be named the Xbox Series S
The Verge
Nearly all of the largest U.S. banks said Monday that they performed well enough on the Federal Reserve's most-recent stress test to maintain their current quarterly dividend.
CNBC
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said big questions remain over the outlook for the economy, particularly in light of ongoing efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic.
CNBC
Hundreds of thousands of people and businesses have been locked out of accounts linked to Wirecard after Britain's financial watchdog ordered the collapsed digital payments company to suspend UK operations.
CNN
Boycotts can be extremely effective - as Facebook is finding out.
BBC News
Almost every tech giant has its sights on gaming. Even Apple and Google, predominantly known for their hardware and operating systems, have made big bets in games.
CNN
Zoox was valued at over $3 billion in 2018, but has struggled with management turnover in its efforts to develop a self-driving car.
CNBC
Microsoft on Friday announced it will permanently close its 83 Microsoft Store retail locations.
CNBC
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