Recruitment goals ahead of schedule, as Apple prepares for new model releases

HP calls it a 'no-compromise VR headset'

Last year, Apple said the tariffs would hurt its competitiveness.

India's cabinet has approved a 480 billion rupees ($6.37 billion) plan to boost electronics manufacturing and woo large investment to a country which, following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Make-in-India drive, has become the world's second-biggest mobile phone manufacturer.

With more employees working from home to help slow the spread of the coronavirus, demand is surging for laptops and network peripherals as well as components along the supply chain such as chips, as companies rush to build virtual offices.

The cancellation is in line with "shelter in place" policies over the coronavirus.

IBM on Sunday announced an initiative to increase access to high performance computing for groups researching and fighting the novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19.

Apple is limiting customer purchases of iPhones over its online stores in many countries including the United States and China to a maximum of two handsets per person, checks on its website on Friday revealed.

Some app developers say Alphabet's Google is increasingly pressing them to embed code in their own products that will deepen Google's access to data on consumers, giving the company a leg up on rivals.

Microsoft Teams now has 44 million daily active users

California has issued a "stay at home" order to residents as it tries to stem the march of the coronavirus across the most populous US state. Governor Gavin Newsom earlier estimated more than half of the 40 million people in his state would contract Covid-19 in just the next two months.

Described as the "first global 5G phone" Nokia's new 8.3 flagship focuses on connectivity.

Summit, IBM's supercomputer equipped with the "brain of AI," ran thousands of simulations to analyze which drug compounds might effectively stop the virus from infecting host cells.

It's one case in a New York delivery station, but the potential of a ripple effect is real.

Spark Microsystems revamps an older technology called ultra wideband -- UWB -- for faster short-range wireless networks.

Netflix will reduce streaming quality in Europe for at least the next month to prevent the internet collapsing under the strain of unprecedented usage due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Sony's new console can output 10.28 teraflops.

Amazon is temporarily refusing to stock certain items in its warehouses, to cope with overwhelming demand for household essentials due to the coronavirus pandemic. It means third-party sellers of non-essential items could find it difficult to ship orders to customers.

Several American industries that have been decimated by the coronavirus outbreak are asking for federal bailouts. The price tag reaches into the hundreds of billions of dollars.

The coronavirus is forcing big changes to the way Facebook operates and stretching the company to its limits, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

The addition of trackpad support to iPadOS is designed to make selection of text and controls easy. The trackpad also supports three-finger gestures.

Apple will release iOS 13.4 and iPadOS 13.4 on March 24, for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users.

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The company hoped to hold a digital version of its Cloud Next conference, but it's now pushed back

LG has also priced and dated the rest of its 4K and 8K OLED sets for 2020.

Microsoft announced this week that Windows 10 has hit a significant milestone. The flagship operating system is now in use on 1 billion - with a "B" - active devices each month.

Just as Apple is forced to close retail stores around the world because of the coronavirus pandemic, it has been hit by a $1 billion blow to its finances.

The company's rumored new phones seemingly borrow some features from the iPhone 11.

ZTE said it had not received any notice from U.S. authorities after NBC News reported on Friday that the Chinese telecoms company was the subject of a new bribery investigation.

San Francisco Bay area officials unveiled Monday what might be the most aggressive and restrictive measures in the country yet to curb the spread of the coronavirus. All residents of six Bay Area counties, including San Francisco, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Marin, Contra Costa and Alameda, have been asked to remain home as much as possible.

US President Donald Trump has said the nationwide coronavirus emergency could last until the end of the summer or even longer. He said Americans over the next 15 days should not gather in groups of more than 10 and avoid bars, restaurants, food courts, gyms and crowds.

Chipmaker Broadcom on Thursday pulled its financial projections for the year, citing uncertainty around the coronavirus pandemic, and said it would push debt payments to the second half of the year or earlier if conditions improve.

Every economic shock leaves a legacy. The deadly coronavirus will be no different.

Lucian Grainge, chief executive officer of Universal Music Group, has been hospitalized after testing positive for Covid-19. Apple's Tim Cook reportedly was at Grainge's birthday party two weeks ago.

Goldman Sachs on Sunday downgraded its outlook for the economy in the first two quarters of 2020 as the coronavirus zaps all growth from the U.S.

Apple said it will close all of its stores outside of greater China until March 27 to reduce the risk of the coronavirus spreading.

The world's largest social network is teaming up with the United Nations Foundation.

It says Netflix violates patents, but competition may be the real issue.

Chinese billionaire and Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma said he will donate 500,000 coronavirus testing kits and one million face masks to the United States.

Microsoft said Thursday that its annual Build developer conference in Seattle, set to run from May 19-21, will be held online instead of in person, a Microsoft spokesperson told CNBC in an email. The change was made as the coronavirus continues to spread around the U.S.