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Ford Motor has reversed course and is now considering making its own battery cells as sales volumes of electric vehicles rise around the world, the automaker's top executive said on Friday.
Reuters
Qualcomm on Friday received a license from the U.S. government to sell 4G mobile phone chips to China's Huawei, an exemption to U.S. trade restrictions imposed amid rising tensions with China.
Reuters
For the past two months inventor Yezin Al-Qaysi has been riding the Toronto subway in Canada wearing a huge black "mad helmet".
BBC News
Microsoft is directing shareholders' attention to revenue from games and gaming services, which includes sales of games for a variety of devices, including the PlayStation.
CNBC
China's bureau for regulating monopolies, the State Administration for Market Regulation or SAMR, released draft rules that define for the first time what constitutes anti-competitive behavior.
CNBC
Amazon on Thursday said it shifted part of the computing for its Alexa voice assistant to its own custom-designed chips, aiming to make the work faster and cheaper while moving it away from chips supplied by Nvidia.
Reuters
Cisco beat expectations while delivering the fourth consecutive quarter of revenue declines on an annualized basis.
CNBC
The tablet had its best October ever, ahead of the next-gen launches
The Verge
The Trump administration on Thursday unveiled an executive order prohibiting U.S. investments in Chinese firms that Washington says are owned or controlled by the Chinese military, ramping up pressure on Beijing after the U.S. election.
Reuters
"We're recovering, but to a different economy," Powell said during a virtual panel discussion at the European Central Bank's Forum on Central Banking.
CNN
Bringing a new range of hardware to market is not an easy task, even for Intel.
Anandtech
Another way to stream Apple originals such as Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet.
engadget
U.S. consumer prices were unchanged in October, the lowest reading in five months, suggesting that a price spike over the summer is beginning to fade as coronavirus cases spread.
AP
PlayStation 4 is the most popular console of its generation, with over 112 million sold worldwide.
BBC News
China's draft anti-monopoly rules will likely hit the country's major internet companies, which were already fighting off rivals that were taking away chunks of their market share, Morgan Stanley said in a report.
CNBC
China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) is facing some delays in getting U.S.-made equipment, parts and materials, the Global Times newspaper reported on Thursday, after Washington imposed export restrictions against the firm.
Reuters
Singapore on Thursday announced a new work visa for foreign executives of technology firms, a sector the low-tax global business hub hopes will power future economic growth.
Reuters
The German automaker wants to 'redefine the scooter segment'
The Verge
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna noted in a letter to President-elect Joe Biden that 70% of the tech talent in the U.S. works for the private sector, and the government needs to secure strategic access to that brain power.
CNBC
Microsoft on Tuesday launched two models of its Xbox gaming console, seven years after the debut of the previous version, to capture a pandemic-driven boom in consumer spending on games.
Reuters
The European Union has unveiled formal antitrust charges against Amazon for abusing its dominance in online shopping and opened a second investigation into the company's business practices.
CNN
Hong Kong-listed shares of Alibaba plunged 8.86% by Wednesday afternoon in Asia, while Tencent dropped 5.38%. Smartphone maker Xiaomi also declined 5.73% and Meituan fell 7.47%. JD.com also saw its stock plummet 8.11%.
CNBC
Huawei plans to sell budget-brand smartphone unit Honor in a 100 billion yuan ($15.2 billion) deal to a consortium led by handset distributor Digital China and the government of its home town of Shenzhen, people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
Reuters
One of MSI's main manufacturing plants in China catches fire, could have a bad effect on MSI products going into next year.
TweakTown
Chip maker Nvidia on Monday announced that Hyundai Motor Group will use the NVIDIA DRIVE in-vehicle information and entertainment system for all its Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis models from 2022.
Reuters
The Nokia 8 V 5G UW boasts a big screen and clever camera tech.
engadget
We've never seen an Arm chip do what Apple is about to try on Macs
The Verge
Billionaire tycoon Masayoshi Son's huge bets in recent months on listed tech stocks didn't pay off.
CNN
It's been a long time since General Motors has been a hot stock for investors. Electric vehicles could turn it into one.
CNN
The vaccine is more than 90% effective, and will not be widely available until next year, but stocks surged on the view that earnings for a broad group of companies will be revised higher.
CNBC
The Chinese semiconductor industry will maintain 'sound and continuous' growth and achieve partial self-reliance over time, according to KPMG
South China Morning Post
Shares in Japan hit a near 30-year high on Monday, the first day of trading following news that Joe Biden had won the US presidential election. The Nikkei 225 closed up 2.1% at a level not seen since 1991.
BBC News
Qualcomm reported fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday.
CNBC
As the country awaits the outcome of the US presidential election, Corporate America is watching closely, especially Silicon Valley.
CNN
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has sold more than $3 billion shares in his company this week, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
CNBC
The laptops will be first and the desktops are coming later, report claims.
Ars Technica
And probably delayed once again
Techradar
Blame it on Sprint
The Verge
SK Hynix, the world's No.2 memory chip maker, said it expected inventory build-up by Huawei's competitors in China to boost mobile demand in the current quarter, but its mainstay server demand would remain week.
Reuters
TVs running Comcast's X1 software could go on sale next to Roku and Android TVs.
engadget
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