HuaweiHuawei's new China campus is divided into 12 European-style towns connected by a train — here's what the 25,000 person campusBusiness Insider - Paige LeskinThe smartphone maker Huawei already employs hundreds of thousands of workers around the world, but the tech giant recently built a new campus in China to make room for even more employees, CNBC reports.
Qualcomm Apple said Qualcomm’s tech was no good. But in private communications, it was ‘the best.’The Washington Post - By Reed AlbergottiDuring the roughly two years Apple was locked in a legal battle with one of its suppliers, Qualcomm, the iPhone maker publicly argued that the chip maker’s technology was worthless. But according to an
Tech Industry The Future of Wearable Tech Is Called a Hearing AidBloomberg When Brandon Sawalich started at Starkey Hearing Technologies in suburban Minneapolis, he was 19 and there were about 70 companies worldwide making …
BlackBerry Emtek announces they will be closing BBM consumer services on May 31crackberry.com - Bla1ze Consumer BBM users encouraged to switch to BBM EnterpriseBack in 2016, BlackBerry announced a new partnership with Indonesia-based Emtek to help …
Amazon Music Amazon Music Launches Free Streaming Tier, Through Alexa Only (for Now)Variety - Jem Aswad Amazon Music today basically soft-launched its free streaming tier, in which U.S. customers of its Alexa voice assistant will have access to top …
Pinterest Infographic: How Pinterest's IPO Valuation Measures Upstatista.com How Pinterest's IPO Valuation Measures Up Pinterest priced its IPO at $19 a share on Wednesday, $2 above the $15 to $17 range previously set in an SEC …
YouTube Music Google Home adds support for YouTube Music’s free ad-supported tierThe Verge - Jon PorterAlthough you can’t request specific songs Google Home smart speakers can now play music from YouTube Music’s free ad-supported tier. Previously, in order to listen to YouTube music on your Google Assistant
Samsung Samsung responds to Galaxy Fold screen damage: ‘we will thoroughly inspect these units’The Verge - Chaim Gartenberg, Dieter BohnAlso: be careful with that screen cover Samsung has released an official statement addressing reports of display issues with the upcoming Galaxy Fold. There are two parts to the story, and unfortunately
Google Maps Google Maps Is Ready to Transform the World of Superapps: A Skift Deep Diveskift.com - Dennis Schaal If you live in the West and parts of Asia and Africa, you take the Google Maps app everywhere you go, stuffed in a pocket or clutched in a hand. And …
Samsung Galaxy Fold My Samsung Galaxy Fold screen broke after just a dayThe Verge - Dieter BohnYikes Look closely at the picture above, and you can see a small bulge right on the crease of my Galaxy Fold review unit. It’s just enough to slightly distort the screen, and I can feel it under my finger.
Qualcomm Intel giving up on 5G tech explains Apple's sudden Qualcomm settlementEngadget - Richard LawlerIntel said it will not launch 5G products for smartphones. In a move that accompanies today's shocking settlement between Apple and Qualcomm, Intel has suddenly announced it's not even going to try building
Apple Five big questions about Apple and Qualcomm’s surprise settlementThe Verge - Jon PorterWhen and how is Apple going to make its first 5G iPhone? On the second day of their blockbuster trial, Apple and Qualcomm announced that they had reached a settlement and would “dismiss all litigation
Site Title日本経済新聞 - LAULY LI and CHENG TING-FANG, Nikkei staff writers PALO ALTO, U.S./TAIPEI -- Apple and Qualcomm on Tuesday reached a settlement to end a two-year multibillion dollar battle over patent royalties in a …
Samsung Samsung develops EUV 5nm chip processZDNet - Cho Mu-Hyun Samsung Electronics has successfully developed a 5nm semiconductor process to gain more chip-making clients, pushing Moore's Law to its …
Netflix Netflix drops on earnings report showing weak guidance, CMO retiresCNBC - Lauren Feiner Netflix fell about 1% after reporting its first-quarter earnings after the bell Tuesday. The company posted quarterly revenue that beat estimates but …
Long-form Journalism 15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside FacebookWIRED - Nicholas Thompson and Fred Vogelstein The streets of Davos, Switzerland, were iced over on the night of January 25, 2018, which added a slight element of danger to the prospect of …
Technology Qualcomm surges after announcing a settlement with Apple over patent royaltiesCNBC - David Faber Apple and Qualcomm have settled their royalty dispute, the companies announced in a press release. The settlement includes a payment from Apple to …
Foxconn Exclusive: Foxconn chairman Gou aims to step down to pave way for younger talentReuters - By Yimou LeeTAIPEI (Reuters) - The chairman of Taiwan’s Foxconn, an assembler of Apple Inc’s iPhones, said on Monday he plans to step down in the coming months to pave the way for younger talent to move up the company’s
Technology EU countries give final approval to copyright reform aimed at Google and FacebookVentureBeat - Chris O'BrienThe European Union has officially approved a controversial and sweeping reform of its copyright rules to protect content creators but that includes provisions critics and tech giants have argued will reduce
Play button Hands-on with the Samsung Galaxy Fold: more than just a conceptThe Verge - Dieter BohnThe folding screen is good, as long as you don’t stare at the crease Two months after an announcement where Samsung talked about the Galaxy Fold but didn’t allow anybody to actually touch it, we finally
Technology Tinder becomes the top-grossing, non-game app in Q1 2019, ending Netflix's reignTechCrunch - Sarah PerezFor the first time in years, Netflix is no longer the top grossing, non-game mobile app. Instead, that title now goes to dating app Tinder. The change in position is not surprising, given Netflix’s decision
Play buttonNokia Inside Nokia’s factory of the future: Robots, data, automation, 5G, and even some humansVentureBeat - Chris O'BrienNokia’s “factory of the future” in Oulu, Finland offers a glimpse into a world in which high-speed connectivity promises to transform manufacturing. But the potential to automate just about every aspect
Tech Industry Mass Production of iPhones to Start in IndiaBloomberg - Debby Wu, Saritha Rai Foxconn Technology Group Chairman Terry Gou said the iPhone will go into mass production in India this year, a shift for the largest assembler of …
Germany Huawei CEO: We support Germany's proposed 'no-spy agreement'CNBC Ren Zhengfei, chief executive of Huawei, says the company endorses "unified global standards" that make installing "backdoors" a crime, and will …
Amazon in Talks to Launch Ad-Supported Music Offering: Exclusivebillboard.com - Hannah Karp "Alexa, play free music." Amazon has entered into discussions to launch a free, ad-supported music service, sources familiar with the plan tell …
Long-form Journalism Are You Afraid of Google? BlackBerry Cofounder Jim Balsillie Says You Should Bethewalrus.ca - Brian J. Barth All this sounds extreme, but in Balsillie’s view, it is extreme only in proportion to how the tech landscape has evolved since the mid-2000s, before …
Apple WSJ report details Apple and Qualcomm relationship, hostile meeting between CEOs9to5Mac - Chance MillerThe legal battle between Qualcomm and Apple has grown increasingly tense since it began in early 2017. A new report from The Wall Street Journal explores how and why the legal battle escalated, with a
Law Trump Says U.S. ‘Must Win’ Race to Develop 5G InfrastructureBloomberg - Todd Shields, Jennifer Jacobs, Justin Sink President Donald Trump said the U.S. will cut regulations and free up spectrum for 5G technology amid tight competition with China and other nations …
Tech Industry Apple Faces Dutch Antitrust Probe Over Favoring Its Own AppsBloomberg - Aoife White Apple Inc. faces a Dutch antitrust probe into whether it favors its own apps over rivals, weeks after music streaming service Spotify Technology SA …
