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Mobile revenues will account for more than 50% of the nearly $138 billion global games market this year, according to global market intelligence group Newzoo.
Variety
Samsung's new SmartThings Wifi router uses artificial intelligence and mesh networking to optimize whole-home Wi-Fi coverage while it also functions as a smart home hub.
Digital Trends
Using the Von Neumann architecture for artificial intelligence applications is inefficient. What will replace it?
Semiconductor Engineering
Japan's economy grew more than expected in the second quarter, helped by strong household and business spending and recovering from an earlier contraction, but global trade tensions loom as major risks to the export and investment outlook.
Reuters
Yang Yuanqing, Chairman and CEO of Lenovo, said he was "satisfied" with the company's growth in the PC and tablet segment in the Indian market but admitted that Lenovo had "made some mistakes" with its smartphone portfolio.
The Economic Times
Net profit for January-June was 65.6 billion yuan ($9.62 billion).
Reuters
US President Donald Trump has issued a strong warning to anyone trading with Iran, following his re-imposition of sanctions on the country.
BBC News
Musk said de-listing from the stock exchange meant Tesla would no longer be pressured into making short-term decisions to appease investors.
BBC News
Samsung has entered mass production of the first 4TB QLC SATA SSDs for the consumer market. The news comes on the cusp of this week's Flash Memory Summit, an annual storage conference where all of the newest flash and memory tech is normally announced. Samsung is usually a premier conference sponsor and dominates the show floor, but the company is curiously absent this year.
Tom's Hardware Guide
In a big boost to the manufacturing sector in Andhra Pradesh, Chinese tech giant Xiaomi has announced that one of its global component suppliers, Holitech Technology Co of China, will be setting up a plant at Tirupati at an investment of Rs 1,400 crore and creating 6,000 jobs.
Times of India
Asus has brought the ZenFone Live L1, its first Android Go phone, to the US. The phone has budget specs, but it could stand out at US$110 thanks to a couple of features uncommon for its price range: an 18:9 display and a face unlock feature.
The Verge
GraphicsFuzz's three-person team - Alastair Donaldson, Hugues Evrard and Paul Thomson - will join Google's Android Graphics Team to "integrate their graphics driver testing technology within the Android ecosystem," according to an announcement on the startup's website.
Venturebeat
"Sources said the world's largest maker of semiconductors and smartphones is relocating its Washington, D.C. office right next to Capitol Hill"
Yonhap News
The company today announced its latest quarterly numbers, which saw the average selling price of its wearables increase 6 percent year-over-year to $106 a device.
TechCrunch
CFO suggests average iPhone sales price won't see another leap.
Bloomberg
Apple has become the world's first public company to be worth US$1 trillion. The iPhone maker's market value reached the figure in New York on Thursday and its shares closed at a new record high of US$207.39.
BBC News
Social media site Reddit has suffered a data breach, but has refused to disclose its scale. The site said it discovered in June that hackers compromised several employees' accounts to gain access to databases and logs.
BBC News
Google reportedly has been working on a project code-named Dragonfly that will block terms like human rights and religion, a move sure to anger activists.
BBC News
Apple reported strong results for the fiscal third quarter Tuesday, posting big beats on earnings per share and average iPhone selling price.
CNBC
The stock fell more than 13% to US$43.30 following a one-line statement Tuesday by Dialog that didn't explain why it dropped the pursuit of the US company.
Bloomberg
The US is considering 25% tariffs on US$200 billion of Chinese goods, much higher than the 10% it previously indicated it might impose, reports say.
BBC News
The confidential deal shows the value of Ericsson's patent portfolio, according to the networking giant.
ZDNet
The South Korean government will invest 1.5 trillion won ($1.34 billion) in developing new technologies and creating a manufacturing hub for next-generation chips.
The Korea Herald
Arm Holdings, the British computer-chip designer owned by SoftBank Group, reportedly has agreed to buy US-based data analytics firm Treasure Data.
Bloomberg
After 21 months of trying, Qualcomm walked away from the NXP acquisition as Chinese regulators balked at approving the deal amid raising trade tensions with the US.
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Net profit came to 326.5 billion won (US$291 million) in the April-June period, compared with 514.9 billion won posted in the same three month period in 2017, the company said in a regulatory filing.
Yonhap News
This isn't the first time we've heard that Huawei is working on a foldable smartphone of its own.
BGR
Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf said his company will terminate its acquisition of NXP by the end of the day and plans to buy back up to US$30 billion of stock.
CNBC
Intel will be Apple's exclusive cellular modem supplier for next-generation iPhones, the CFO of Qualcomm indicated on Wednesday.
Apple Insider
European authorities took their best swing, but it appears that Google hardly felt it. Less than a week after the European Union fined Google a record $5.1 billion for abusing its dominance in the smartphone market, Google's parent company, Alphabet, said on Monday it had already absorbed the cost of the fine and still made $3.2 billion in profits in its latest quarter.
New York Times
South Korea's LG Display posted on Wednesday an operating loss of KRW228 billion (US$202.2 million) for the second quarter, weighed by falling panel prices and weak demand from television and handset makers.
Reuters
Facebook has set up a subsidiary in China and plans to create an "innovation hub" to support local startups and developers, the company has announced, ramping up its presence in the restrictive market where its social media sites remain blocked.
The Guardian
Texas Instruments, whose CEO Brian Crutcher resigned a week ago, forecast better-than-expected revenue and profit for the third quarter as it benefits from higher sales of semiconductors used in cars and industrial machinery.
Reuters
The need for cash is so urgent that Tesla has reportedly made an unusual request: It's asking some suppliers for partial refunds, according to The Wall Street Journal.
CNNMoney
Google's parent company Alphabet is presenting its quarterly earnings today, just a week after Google was hit with a US$5.04 billion fine from the EU Commission regarding antitrust violations around Android. But whether or not you take the fine into account, Alphabet posted strong numbers again this quarter.
engadget
Dozens of Singaporean iTunes customers have been forced to seek assistance from their banks after their credit and debit cards were used for iTunes purchases, Channel News Asia reports. Apple has denied responsibility for the mass of unauthorized charges, but is "looking into" the issue.
Venturebeat
BOE Technology's plants already make display screens for Apple's iPads and MacBook computers. Now it is seeking to supply Apple with advanced OLED smartphone screens.
Wall Street Journal
Austrian chipmaker AMS on Monday reported a second-quarter operating loss due to an already communicated orders delay from a key customer but said new orders have come in, securing strong growth in the second half of the year.
Reuters
You may have heard that the European Union punished Google with a record $5.1 billion fine on Wednesday for abusing its power in the mobile phone market. Specifically, the authorities dinged Google on its practices with Android, the mobile operating system that the company provides to makers of devices. The size of the fine and the remedies that regulators ordered Google to make were consequential, both symbolically and in how handset manufacturers may incorporate Android into mobile devices in Europe in the future.
New York Times
Qualcomm may have recently unveiled its 700-series chipsets, but the competition is just heating up. MediaTek is unveiling a new series of chipsets too.
Digital Trends
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