Apple may be about to give its customers a lot more control over their iPhones and iPads.

Samsung Electronics said Saturday it has temporarily shut down a smartphone plant in the southeastern city of Gumi, shortly after a plant employee tested positive for the new coronavirus.

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Whatever high Apple executives were on in January after the company posted record earnings and strong iPhone sales during the holiday quarter has likely faded. The tech giant is having a rough month.

Commercial banks extended 3.34 trillion yuan (US$477 billion) of credit in January, an all-time high for bank lending in a single month, the People's Bank of China said

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Analog Devices forecast second-quarter revenue below analysts' estimates on Wednesday, as the U.S. chipmaker braced for a $70 million hit related to the coronavirus outbreak.

Anglo-German chip designer Dialog Semiconductor is buying California-based Adesto Technologies for $500 million to diversify further away from its reliance Apple, it said on Thursday.

The impact of the coronavirus outbreak in China on U.S. economic growth will be negligible and short-lived, according to economists in a Reuters poll who nonetheless now say risks to their forecasts are skewed more to the downside.

The Korean memory maker has shut down some of its facilities and has asked its workers to be quarantined at homes due to an employee making contact with a confirmed novel coronavirus patient.

Though the coronavirus had just taken hold when the Federal Reserve met in January, officials already expressed concern about its potential economic impacts.

State-of-the-art microscopy has enabled researchers to study a viral protein that could be used in vaccine development.

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Samsung Electronics stands to be a major beneficiary of the China production problems announced by rival Apple Inc on Monday, reaping the rewards of a decade-long bet on low-cost smartphone manufacturing in Vietnam.

Samsung Electronics's semiconductor manufacturing division has won a contract to make new Qualcomm 5G chips using its most advanced chip-making technology, two sources familiar with the matter said, boosting the Korean firm's efforts to gain market share against rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing.

Dell said on Tuesday it would sell its cybersecurity unit RSA for $2.08 billion to a consortium led by Symphony Technology Group, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board and AlpInvest Partners.

A federal judge in Texas on Tuesday rejected Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co Ltd's constitutional challenge to a U.S. law that restricted its ability to do business with federal agencies and their contractors.

Foldable phones are once again facing questions about their durability.

Gold rose and global equity markets slid on Tuesday after Apple said it was unlikely to meet its sales guidance because of the coronavirus outbreak in China, a warning highlighting the epidemic's threat to global growth and corporate profits.

HSBC on Tuesday said it would cut around 35,000 jobs and dramatically overhaul its business after its profit plunged by a third in 2019.

The mid-range phones will be launched in the second quarter of 2020.

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Nintendo is likely to struggle to supply sufficient Switch consoles to its US and European markets as soon as April due to a production bottleneck caused by the coronavirus outbreak, according to people with knowledge of the company's supply chain.

Almost 60% of the firms expect demand to be lower than normal over the next few months, nearly half said their global supply chain had already been affected by the business shutdown, and about a third of them will consider moving operations out of the country if this continues.

Singapore has reported one of the highest numbers of confirmed coronavirus cases outside China.

Japan's economy shrank at the fastest pace in almost six years in the December quarter as last year's sales tax hike hit consumer and business spending, highlighting a fragile outlook made worse by growing coronavirus risks.

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.

The U.S. government's antitrust victory over chip supplier Qualcomm drew tough questions for the Federal Trade Commision from a panel of three appellate judges in San Francisco on Thursday.

In a year where the 5G radio will be the new iPhone's spotlight feature, Apple has decided to design the phone's antenna itself.

Alibaba had a great quarter to close out 2019, with strong gains in revenue and earnings that topped analysts' forecasts.

The temporary general license allowing American companies to do business with Huawei has been extended again.

Samsung Electronics said on Friday that board chairman Lee Sang-hoon, who was sentenced to jail in December for sabotaging union activities, had offered to resign, without elaborating on a reason.

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday accused Huawei of stealing trade secrets and helping Iran track protesters in its latest indictment against the Chinese company, escalating the U.S. battle with the world's largest telecommunications equipment maker.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered a temporary block on the JEDI cloud contract in response to a lawsuit filed by Amazon.

Broadcom on Thursday released a new chip aimed at eliminating choppy phone calls and music on Bluetooth headphones.

The US has expanded its lawsuit against Huawei, accusing the Chinese telecoms giant of a "decades-long" plan to steal technology from US firms. Prosecutors said Huawei had violated the terms of partnerships with US companies and stolen trade secrets such as source code and robot technology.

Some 242 people died from the new coronavirus in the Chinese province of Hubei on Wednesday - the deadliest day since the outbreak began. There was also a huge increase in the number of cases, with 14,840 people diagnosed with the virus.