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SK hynix on Thursday unveiled a 1.2 trillion-won (US$1.05 billion) support plan for subcontracting firms and their R&D projects.
Yonhap News
Acquisition creates platform for addressing connectivity applications for Industrial and Automotive markets
Benzinga
German chipmaker Infineon cut its 2019 revenue forecast on Wednesday for the second time in as many months, pointing to a weakening Chinese car market, the world's largest, which it supplies.
Reuters
ZTE, the Chinese telecommunications company whose brush with death last year thrust it to the center of the trade war between the US and China, posted a net loss of more than $1 billion in 2018.
Wall Street Journal
Sony is closing its Beijing smartphone plant, a spokesman said on Thursday, as the Japanese electronics giant cuts costs in an attempt to make the money-losing handset business profitable from next year.
Reuters
Facebook has said it will block "praise, support and representation of white nationalism and separatism" on Facebook and Instagram from next week.
BBC News
Economists are expecting 2.4 percent GDP growth in the U.S. this year, the highest forecast among G-7 countries where are mounting.
CNBC
Google said on Tuesday it was launching a global advisory council to consider ethical issues around artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.
Reuters
Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday first-quarter profit would likely miss market expectations due to falls in chip prices and slowing demand for display panels, in an unprecedented statement ahead of its earnings guidance.
Reuters
The world's biggest chipmaker on Tuesday said first-quarter results will fall short of estimates as prices for memory chips and displays slid more than expected, just days ahead of releasing preliminary earnings. That came after Apple, which buys smartphone screens from Samsung, cut its revenue outlook in January for the first time in almost two decades.
Bloomberg
We've seen the phones, now it's time to accessorize your heart out.
CNET
Copyright laws which critics say could change the internet have been voted in by the European Parliament.
BBC News
Infinity Augmented Reality, an Israeli startup, has been acquired by Alibaba, the companies announced this weekend.
TechCrunch
ASUS reportedly distributed the hijacked software to users last year.
ZDNet
It's the largest display in the Galaxy A lineup, and it's also bigger than that of the Galaxy S10 Plus.
CNET
Apple attempted to reintroduce itself on Monday as an entertainment and financial services company that also makes iPhones as it launched a streaming television service, a credit card and an online gaming arcade.
Reuters
It claims there was nothing personally identifiable.
engadget
Intel will not develop new Compute Cards, the company has confirmed to Tom's Hardware.
Tom's Hardware Guide
Can Brexit be stopped? A force of exasperated Brits is trying.
Washington Post
Next-generation 5G networks can be 100 times faster than 4G, making communication between devices and servers much faster.
CNN
Renault-Nissan announced plans in 2016 to use Microsoft cloud services in connected cars. They're finally be ready to roll later this year.
ZDNet
The chips could lead to more powerful laptops for games and creators.
engadget
Here's why that matters: Samsung wants to prepare for "an accelerated global IT transition to next-generation DRAM interfaces, such as DDR5, LPDDR5 and GDDR6."
Tom's Hardware Guide
The collaboration will cover hardware, software and services.
TechCrunch
The new Kindle comes in at $90, and is available for pre-order now, with a shipping date set for April 10.
Digital Trends
Facebook on Wednesday announced the $399 Oculus Rift S, the latest version of its PC-connected virtual reality headset.
CNBC
Blockchain would enable Facebook users to make PayPal-like purchases of advertised products and authenticate people posting on the site, effectively creating an audit trail and confirming they're not bots.
Computerworld
South Korea's antitrust regulator has lowered a decade-old penalty imposed on U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm by 18 percent to $200 million.
Reuters
U.S. buyout firm Bain Capital is likely to push back the IPO of Toshiba Memory by around two months.
Reuters
Millimeter wave technology will require a whole new approach to ensuring reliability.
Semiconductor Engineering
The European Union has hit Google with another big antitrust fine, the third in a series of billion-dollar penalties the US tech giant has incurred for hindering competition.
CNN
Stadia, Google's big push into video games, could change everything about how we play (Mar 19, 2019)
Google has officially announced a major new effort in the video game world - and it might just change the future of the roughly $135 billion industry.
Time
The new Android OS has major upgrades to privacy and security.
ZDNet
Pure Storage is expanding its AIRI lineup of systems for artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads.
ZDNet
China Telecom said its 2018 net profit rose 13.9% from a year earlier.
MarketWatch
US semiconductor companies want no part of any trade deal that calls for stepped-up purchases from China, worried that would give Beijing more control over their industry.
Wall Street Journal
Apple, in a surprise move on Monday, launched a new 10.5-inch iPad Air and updated its iPad Mini ahead of a March 25.
Reuters
The gargantuan cash injection was led by SoftBank, Qualcomm, Grupo Salinas, and the Rwandan government.
Venturebeat
The US is falling behind on phone design, and foldables are the proof.
The Verge
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