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Oracle and VMware on Monday announced a deal designed to resolve years of tension over how Oracle handles technical support for VMware users and make it easier for them to move to Oracle's cloud computing service.
Reuters
Sony said on Tuesday it was rejecting a call by Daniel Loeb's activist hedge fund Third Point to spin-off its chips business, saying that the business is "a crucial growth driver" for the Japanese company.
Reuters
Its taking on OnePlus in India in partnership with e-commerce site FlipKart.
engadget
We'll see the Pixel 4 and probably a bunch of other Google hardware.
Ars Technica
Pre-orders for Apple's latest iPhones have gotten off to a better start than the last cycle a year ago, several Wall Street analysts said on Monday, citing their own research data.
Reuters
Four phones with three different notches
The Verge
CIOs have to continue to educate execs and senior leaders about blockchain opportunities and challenges and continue to develop proofs of concept to test its business worthiness, the research firm says.
Computerworld
Two U.S. senators on Monday asked the FCC and national security agencies to review whether two Chinese state-owned telecom companies should be allowed to operate in the United States, at a time of heightened concern about possible Chinese spying.
Reuters
Apple will launch a legal challenge on Tuesday to a European Commission order to pay 13 billion euros ($14.4 billion) in Irish back taxes in a landmark case in the EU's crackdown on tax avoidance by multinational companies.
Reuters
Even last year's A12 Bionic-powered iPhones were comparable to notebooks in terms of performance and the A13 Bionic has now improved on that on all fronts.
WCCF Tech
U.S. President Donald Trump said in a Twitter post on Wednesday that he will delay increasing tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese goods from Oct. 1 to Oct. 15 as "a gesture of good will."
CNBC
Huawei Technologies' device business, comprising mainly smartphones, made a 11 billion yuan ($1.55 billion) profit in the first half of this year - as much as it earned in all of 2018 - a rare regulatory filing showed.
Reuters
Facebook announced big plans to revolutionize payments in Europe with the launch of a virtual currency. But EU finance ministers see libra as a risk to monetary stability.
Deutsche Welle
Apple spent more time talking about the iPhone's camera than new services or iPads at its launch event this week.
CNBC
Broadcom said on Thursday demand for microchips had hit a bottom and would remain at current levels, a sign that an industry downturn may linger, and added that there was no clear indication as to when the recovery would take place.
Reuters
Apple apparently isn't settling on just Face ID and Touch ID for biometric identification, and is continuing work on identifying a palm placed on a device to authenticate a user.
Apple Insider
Google agreed to pay close to 1 billion euros ($1.10 billion) to French authorities to settle a fiscal fraud probe that began four years ago in a deal that may create a legal precedent for other large tech companies present in the country.
Reuters
US President Donald Trump will delay a planned tariff hike on $250bn of Chinese goods as a "gesture of good will".
BBC News
To some, the trade war is a "lose-lose" situation.
Forbes
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reportedly launched an investigation to determine whether Amazon controls an inappropriately large share of the retail market.
The Hill
Hong Kong has just made a surprise 瞿30 billion ($37 billion) takeover bid for the London Stock Exchange.
CNN
The giant elephant in the room at Apple's iPhone launch event on Tuesday starts with a 5 and ends with a G.
CNN
Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency suffered another setback on Wednesday when Switzerland said the proposed payments system could face strict rules that typically apply to banks, on top of tough anti-money laundering laws.
Reuters
The competition will feature 'Street Fighter V' and 'Rocket League'.
engadget
China is expected to buy more agricultural products in hope for a better trade deal with the United States.
Reuters
China's search engine giant Baidu said on Tuesday it will invest 1.44 billion yuan ($202 million) in artificial intelligence firm Neusoft Holdings.
Reuters
"At no time did we find any evidence of forced labour and we can confirm that this facility currently has no interns working overtime," it said in a statement given to AFP.
BBC News
The U.S. economy has been buoyed more by emerging market growth than domestic policies, according to Oxford University professor Ian Goldin.
CNBC
Nissan Motor CEO Hiroto Saikawa is stepping down after an internal investigation revealed falsified documents that boosted his compensation in 2013.
CNBC
After its recent foray into fulfillment services, the company makes a big acquisition.
Motley Fool
Jack Ma steps down as the chairman of Alibaba's board on September 10.
CNBC
Nearly 1,000 Amazon employees have pledged to walk out in protest of what they say is their company's inaction on climate change.
CNN
Apple and manufacturing partner Foxconn on Monday rebutted allegations of lapses in people management leveled by a non-profit monitor of worker rights, though confirmed they employed too many temporary workers.
Reuters
Two of China's big three state telecom companies, China Telecom and China Unicom, are working together to build a 5G mobile network in a cost-cutting venture that could crimp orders for vendors such as Huawei Technologies.
Reuters
Australian government officials advised India to ban Chinese technology maker Huawei from supplying parts for a rollout of a high-speed telecommunications network, Australian newspapers reported on Tuesday.
Reuters
The two companies signed an MOU to jointly develop and commercialize the world's first ever 5G-8K TV
Company release
Microsoft's most powerful executive has said US President Donald Trump's treatment of China's telecoms giant Huawei is unfair and un-American.
Yahoo! Finance
State attorneys general are opening the latest inquiries into the companies' practices as government scrutiny grows
The Guardian
Everyone has learned lessons from Samsung's experience.
engadget
But many CEOs tell IBM they don't have the resources needed to close the skills gap brought on by emerging technologies.
CNET
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