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In March, month-on-month, the economy contracted by 5.8%, tipping U.K. GDP into a quarterly contraction of 2% across the first three months of the year.
CNBC
Tesla has applied to become an electricity supplier in the UK.
BBC News
The UK's coronavirus contact-tracing app is set to use a different model to the one proposed by Apple and Google, despite concerns raised about privacy and performance.
BBC News
UK unveils $1.6 billion rescue package for tech start-ups hit by coronavirus outbreak (Apr 19, 2020)
Start-ups across Britain have been crying out for more financial support after rivals in France and Germany were given access to funds.
CNBC
Chinese telecoms company Huawei has said that disrupting its involvement in the rollout of 5G would do Britain "a disservice".
BBC News
An attempt to seize control of the board of British graphics chipmaker Imagination Technologies by an investor linked to the Chinese state has failed after intervention by the UK government.
The Financial Times
Bipartisan group cites "significant" threats to security and privacy posed by the China telecom giant.
CNET
The Trump administration will not change its intelligence sharing policy with the United Kingdom despite contentious disagreements over the UK's recent decision to rely on China's Huawei to help build its next generation of super-fast wireless networks, senior administration officials said Friday.
CNN
US hasn't made evidence public but reportedly shared it with UK and Germany.
Ars Technica
Researchers will study the public's reaction to the technology.
engadget
Forty-eight per cent of UK companies surveyed by the British Chamber of Commerce in China say business has become more difficult in 2019
South China Morning Post
The economy expanded by 1% in the three months ended September, compared to the previous year, according to data from the Office for National Statistics. It's the weakest annual growth rate since the beginning of 2010.
CNN
The US firm said it "wished it had done more to investigate Cambridge Analytica" earlier.
BBC News
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is preparing to grant China's Huawei access to the UK's future 5G telecoms network, the Sunday Times reported on Sunday.
Reuters
The UK government has announced a partnership with Arm to develop cybersecurity solutions for hardware used by businesses.
ZDNet
EU Council President Donald Tusk said he has received a letter from the British government requesting an extension of the Oct. 31 Brexit deadline.
CNBC
It's the first global expansion of the app
The Verge
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's latest maneuver to push through Brexit has been described by opponents as a "coup" and a "constitutional outrage." For investors, it's a warning sign: Ignore Brexit at your risk.
CNN
Corporation recording voices of staff across UK to help Beeb software understand accents
The Guardian
It's not mobile data, but it's a start.
engadget
HTC has stopped offering its phones for sale in the UK while it is involved in an intellectual property dispute.
BBC News
The UK and South Korea have signed in principle a free trade agreement (FTA) that seeks to maintain existing trade arrangements post-Brexit.
BBC News
Apple, Google, Microsoft and WhatsApp, along with dozens of other companies and civil liberties groups, have joined forces to condemn UK spy agency GCHQ for plans to eavesdrop on encrypted messages.
Forbes
China on Sunday warned Britain not to discriminate against companies involved in developing the 5G network and to resist pressure from other countries.
Reuters
Honda Motor said it plans to close its factory in the UK in the biggest blow yet to the British auto industry already buckling under thousands of job cuts and the loss of key models in the run-up to Brexit.
Bloomberg
Twenty-nine companies and research bodies will take part in the project, among them Robert Bosch, Infineon, STMicroelectronics, Osram, Carl Zeiss, GlobalFoundries and Murata.
Reuters
UK telecoms group BT (BT) confirmed on Wednesday that it would not buy equipment from the Chinese tech company for the core of its next generation wireless network. The company also said it would remove existing Huawei technology from the heart of its 4G network within two years.
CNN
SoftBank could relist Arm Holdings, the UK chip designer bought two years ago by the Japanese internet-to-telecoms conglomerate, according to its senior executive.
The Financial Times
The Home Office has signed a GBP210 million (US$279.81 million) contract with Samsung, which will see UK emergency services using the company's 4G smartphones.
Computing Research
"We can't wait for people to experience HomePod, Apple's breakthrough wireless speaker for the home, but we need a little more time before it's ready for our customers," an Apple spokesperson said. "We'll start shipping in the US, UK and Australia in early 2018."
The Verge
Imagination Technologies, the Hertfordshire-based maker of mobile graphics processors, agreed a sale to Canyon Bridge, which is backed by state-owned Chinese fund Yitai Capital, in a deal valuing the British chipmaker at about GBP550 million (US$744 million).
The Financial Times
Essential is planning its international foray with launches in the UK, western Europe and Japan, although it has yet to launch its minimalist $699 handset in the US.
The Financial Times
Sondrel, an IC design services firm based in the UK, has agreed to buy Imagination Technologies' IMGworks division for an undisclosed sum.
EE Times
Britain's House of Commons was in lockdown on Wednesday after what police assume is a terrorist attack in which an assailant stabbed a police guard soon after a car ploughed into number of pedestrians on adjoining Westminster Bridge.
The Financial Times
UK telecoms giant Vodafone has merged its Indian business with Idea Cellular, India's third-largest network, to create the country's largest operator.
BBC News
Google is to open a new headquarters building in London which could see 3,000 new jobs created by 2020.
BBC News
Among its early backers are technology group Samsung, German engineer Bosch and Hermann Hauser, the founder of Cambridge-based chip designer ARM.
The Financial Times
Japanese technology giant Fujitsu has announced plans to cut up to 1,800 jobs in Britain, more than a tenth of its UK workforce .
Guardian
ARM founder Hermann Hauser said the result of the Softbank deal meant the "determination of what comes next for technology will not be decided in Britain any more, but in Japan".
BBC News
Shares in Imagination Technologies fell as much as 8% on Tuesday after the UK chip designer posted its worst ever annual losses
The Financial Times
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