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Lobe's simple visual interface lets people easily create intelligent apps that can understand hand gestures, hear music, read handwriting, and more.
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Broadcom believes the agreement would deliver value to its shareholders through organic growth. However, a lot of analysts believe the deal is not in sync with Broadcom's strategic focus.
Market Realist
Aceinna has announced OpenIMU - a first of its kind professionally supported, open-source GPS/GNSS-aided inertial navigation software stack for low-cost precise navigation applications.
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Infineon Technologies has been listed in the Dow Jones Sustainability Europe Index (DJSI) for the 9th consecutive year. This was announced by the Sustainability Investing (SI) specialist RobecoSAM. In addition to its incorporation in the European Index, Infineon is also part of the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for the fourth time in a row.
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The company's stock price took a 7 percent hit after Apple unveiled its new health-focused and feature-packed Watch Series 4 Wednesday during the company's annual fall showcase.
BGR
The police are investigating oBike Singapore for alleged misappropriation of funds, Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam has said. oBike Singapore had allegedly transferred about SGD10 million collected from users in the city state to its Hong Kong operations.
The Straits Times
Tesla has increased the registered capital for its new Shanghai gigafactory from CNY100 million (US$14.6 million) to CNY4.67 billion to support new scope for the factory, including core automotive manufacturing operations and battery managements systems at the new factory, according to Sina.
Cleantechnica
Facebook says Rosetta extracts text from over a billion images and video frames in a wide variety of languages every day in real time.
engadget
The Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL might not be the only things Google has in store for its October 9 event. There have been leaks of an unreleased Chrome OS device, rumored to be a new Google Pixelbook.
CNET
"But LG Display had misread the market: Chinese competitors were coming on strong, and by early this year prices for LCD screens were plummeting."
Reuters
China will seek permission from the World Trade Organization (WTO) to impose sanctions on the US next week, according to the WTO's meeting agenda.
CNBC
Shares of Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors fell 4.4% on Tuesday after executives outlined their strategy after the collapse this year of a proposed merger with Qualcomm but said they did not expect to raise gross margins to the level of rivals like Intel.
Reuters
Elon Musk has said he is retiring two of seven Tesla color options from his electric car range - Obsidian Black Metallic and Metallic Silver - to help speed up production times.
Business Insider
The US Federal Communications Commission paused its review of T-Mobile US Inc's proposed US$26.5 billion purchase of Sprint Corp, saying it needs more time to review network engineering and financial models submitted by the applicants.
Bloomberg
The ban is being considered thanks to a patent-infringement claim by a company called KAIST, which claims that it has patented FinFET, a processor technology used by Apple in its A-series processors.
BGR
The 5G race is heating up.
CNET
Alibaba has a trio of new partners in Russia.
CNNMoney
Kaga Electronics is to buy 70% of Fujitsu Electronics Inc. (FEI) from Fujitsu Semiconductor (FSL) and plans to also acquire the remaining 30% shares held by FSL by the end of 2021.
Electronics Weekly
Renesas Electronics and Integrated Device Technology have announced they have signed a definitive agreement under which Renesas will acquire IDT for US$49.00 per share in an all-cash transaction representing an equity value of approximately US$6.7 billion.
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Andrew Moore, dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, is leaving his university post at the end of the year to become the chief of Google Cloud AI. He'll succeed Fei-Fei Li, who will return to her professorship at Stanford and maintain an advisory role with Google.
ZDNet
Qualcomm Technologies has launched the next-generation Snapdragon Wear 3100 Platform for smartwatches. The platform is based on a new ultra-low power system architecture designed to deliver a rich interactive mode, new personalized experiences, and extended battery life.
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The company's ultimate objective is to displace lithium-ion as the battery of choice for high performance, mobile power applications.
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Intel has announced the acquisition of NetSpeed Systems, a San Jose, California-based provider of SoC design tools and interconnect fabric IP. Deal terms were not disclosed.
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Shares of Apple suppliers fell across Asia on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted that the tech giant should make products in the United States if it wanted to avoid tariffs on Chinese imports.
Reuters
Jack Ma, the executive chairman of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, will step down in a year, the company has confirmed. The news follows conflicting reports over the weekend on the timing of his exit.
BBC News
The 7th amendment to the WSA (Wafer Supply Agreement) could give AMD even more freedom to tap TSMC and Samsung for fabrication
WCCF Tech
Google has sent out invites for an October 9 event that will almost certainly be the official announcement of the thoroughly leaked Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL smartphones.
The Verge
Dell's latest earnings are unlikely to diffuse a brewing shareholder mutiny. The tech giant is attempting to return to public markets via a takeover of the DVMT tracking stock it created to finance its 2016 buyout of data-storage company EMC Corp.
Bloomberg
Giving your BMW a name is going to be a bit more complicated once the company's Intelligent Personal Assistant arrives in the spring of 2019.
Forbes
Chipmaker Broadcom gave a quarterly sales forecast that topped analysts' estimates on strong demand for data-center semiconductors. The stock rallied in extended trading, following an earlier sell-off in chip industry shares.
Bloomberg
At least nine people are dead and 31 unaccounted for in Hokkaido after a magnitude 6.7 earthquake - reaching the maximum 7 on Japan's seismic intensity scale in some areas - caused landslides that engulfed houses early on Thursday.
The Japan Times
One worker was killed and two others remain unconscious after being exposed to carbon dioxide in a Samsung Electronics semiconductor factory southeast of Seoul, authorities said Tuesday.
Yonhap News
The European Union approved Apple's planned acquisition of British music discovery app Shazam on Thursday.
Reuters
Facebook's first Asian datacenter will be in Singapore
Venturebeat
IBM and a start-up have launched a blockchain-based app that lets patients eventually sell anonymized data to pharmaceutical companies, researchers and others while retaining greater control over privacy.
Computerworld
IDC remains optimistic about VR--especially for the enterprise--but the data doesn't look so hot.
ZDNet
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. "will not rule out the possibility" of buying a memory chip company, Chairman Mark Liu told the Nikkei Asian Review.
Nikkei Asian Review
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday that domestic flights at Kansai International Airport, which closed down after powerful Typhoon Jebi flooded the runway and tarmac, will resume operations by the end of Friday. The announcement came as speculation was rife that the Kansai airport, one of the biggest airports in Japan, will not be able to resume operations for days or possibly weeks.
The Japan Times
Merger of Unicom with China Telecom is said to be reviewed
Bloomberg
Intel has begun narrowing its search for a new chief executive officer and could bring in an outsider to lead the world's second-biggest chipmaker for the first time.
Bloomberg
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