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Apple will recruit TSMC to manufacture chips for its upcoming Apple Car starting in 2023 to 2025, according to Ming-Chi Kuo, who now works for TF International Securities.
Mac Rumors
"This not only reflects the great importance Qualcomm attaches to the Chinese market, but also shows our strong support for China's further opening-up," Meng said.
Xinhuanet
Google is changing the way it licenses its suite of Android apps in Europe, leading the company to charge a licensing fee for the Play Store and other Google apps for the first time.
The Verge
Xilinx, Huawei and NGCodec have announced the development of China's first cloud-based high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) solution, which is enabled by Xilinx Virtex UltraScale+ FPGAs and NGCodec's H.265 video encoder.
Company release
The Ascend 910 will be available from the second quarter of 2019 and the 310 is already on shelves.
Reuters
The federal government will tighten rules on foreign investment in sensitive industries like technology and telecommunications next month.
Reuters
Shares in Dialog surged more than 30pc on Thursday morning, as investors welcomed the clarity the deal provides over the company's future.
The Telegraph
Huawei unveils two new artificial intelligence (AI) chips called the Ascend 910 and Ascend 310.
CNBC
Cold-war style offensive by America is an ill-advised miscalculation that will cause pain 'all over the world', warn top executives of Chinese conglomerate.
South China Morning Post
Apple quietly spent approximately $30 million to purchase Spektral, a startup that uses machine learning to eliminate backgrounds from videos in real time on smartphones.
Venturebeat
One of China's biggest smartphone makers has never sold a handset in the country. Yet thousands of miles away, it dominates markets across Africa.
CNN
The International Monetary Fund has warned a trade war between the US and China risks making the world a "poorer and more dangerous place" in its latest assessment of the global economy. The IMF has lowered its forecast for global growth this year and next.
BBC News
Google is about to have its own Cambridge Analytica moment. Details have surfaced that Google knew about a bug within Google+ (Google's attempt at a social network product) which would give nefarious outsiders potential access to private profile data from 2015 to mid-2018. Google chose not to disclose any details because of PR fears.
Forbes
London's High Court on Monday blocked an attempt to bring legal action against Alphabet Inc's Google over claims it had collected sensitive data from more than 4 million iPhone users although it said the company's actions had been "wrongful".
Reuters
Qualcomm will be investing $400 million (Rs 3,000 crore) in setting up its largest campus outside its San Diego headquarters in Hyderabad, IT minister KT Rama Rao's office said on Saturday.
The Times of India
The company has apparently looked at producing a Game Boy-like case that would turn your mobile device into a working version of the classic handheld console, complete with D-pad, buttons, the whole thing.
BGR
The attack by Chinese spies reached almost 30 US companies, including Amazon and Apple, by compromising America's technology supply chain, according to extensive interviews with government and corporate sources.
Bloomberg
WSJ cites "suppliers," admits most hardware specifics have not yet been locked down.
Ars Technica
In his order, US District Judge Ed Kinkeade of Dallas extended until 2022 the term of a monitor he appointed to assess the equipment maker's compliance with US export control laws.
South China Morning Post
Tencent Music Entertainment, which owns China's most popular music apps, has filed for a U.S. IPO seeking funds to develop content and new services, in what is expected to be one of the biggest U.S. listings by a Chinese company this year.
Reuters
Rakuten is highly committed to support the smooth network evolution from 4G to 5G in order to provide new and rich user experiences in Japan.
Company release
Sharp said on Wednesday its first OLED smartphone would go on sale later this year in Japan.
Reuters
WiFi naming is about to get easier to understand.
engadget
Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries (RIL) is in talks to acquire Mumbai-based cable operator Hathway to speed up the commercial roll out of its high-speed home broadband services. RIL aims to connect 50 million homes with its Jio GigaFiber network.
Business Today
Since its Australian launch in March, Indian ride-sharing company Ola has expanded into seven major cities, signed up 50,000 drivers, recruited former eBay managing director Simon Smith, hired Starcom and The Royals and launched a new marketing campaign led by ex-P&G marketer Natasha Daly.
AdNews
The founder of WhatsApp has revealed that he left the Facebook-owned messaging platform over plans to introduce targeted ads to its 1.5 billion users.
Independent
Iridium is partnering with AWS to develop a satellite-based network called CloudConnect for Internet of Things (IoT) applications.
CNBC
For the last several years Berners-Lee has been secretly toiling away alongside colleagues at MIT on a new open-source project called Solid, a decentralized privacy-focused ecosystem that will reshape the web and "restore the power and agency of the individuals" using it.
Forbes
Jack Ma has quietly relinquished his ownership of the legal entities at the heart of Alibaba, symbolically handing back the keys to the Chinese technology giant he founded 19 years ago.
The Financial Times
Only three weeks after the partnership with Huawei, Monaco Telecom unveiled its nationwide 5G mobile network at the Monaco Yacht Show. Monaco Telecom and Huawei finalized the agreement early September.
Company release
Elon Musk has agreed to step down as chairman of Tesla. But Musk, the exuberant, relentless billionaire chief executive of Tesla, shows no immediate signs of changing his style.
The New York Times
The US and Canada are reported to have reached a deal to reform the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) after last minute negotiations. The deal is said to involve more US access to Canada's dairy market and a cap on Canada's car exports to the US.
BBC News
Google has finally admitted that a "Project Dragonfly" is indeed in the works. But that's about all a Google executive was willing to divulge Wednesday about the codenamed plan, which has been widely reported to be a search product the company is developing for China - one that would need to comply with government censorship.
CNN
The US Federal Reserve raised interest rates on Wednesday and left intact its plans to steadily tighten monetary policy, as it forecast that the US economy would enjoy at least three more years of growth.
Reuters
"To put it simply, our outcomes share the same goals as the GDPR principles, but our approach is different,"
CBC News
That pricing is for the 256GB model, which retails for $1,249 off contract and therefore gives Apple around $800 of profit margin to play with. This is why Apple is a trillion dollar company.
PCMAG.com
The company announced Monday at the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) that samples of its silicon photonics transceivers targeting 5G wireless infrastructure and data centers are available now, with production set to start in the first quarter of 2019
Network World
The filing is the latest salvo in that dispute, designed to put pressure on Apple to settle.
CNBC
The phone is perhaps best described as a photography-oriented mid-ranger. It's got a 6-inch, 2,220x1,080 Super AMOLED screen, an unnamed octa-core processor (which will differ by market and mobile operator), 4/6GB of RAM and 64/128GB of storage (again, depending on market and operator), a 3,300mAh battery and Android 8.0.
Mashable
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