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TSMC says could fill order gap if unable to sell chips to Huawei

HSINCHU, Taiwan (Reuters) – Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC) (2330.TW) could quickly fill any order gap should U.S. restrictions against Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL] prevent sales to the Chinese firm, the company’s chairman said on Tuesd... More »

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TSMC says still in talks about subsidies for new U.S. plant

HSINCHU, Taiwan (Reuters) – Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC) (2330.TW) is still in talks with the U.S. government about subsidies for its new plant in Arizona, chairman Mark Liu said on Tuesday. “We hope federal and state governments could make... More »

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IBM exits facial recognition business, calls for police reform

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – International Business Machines Corp (IBM.N) disclosed Monday it will no longer offer facial recognition or analysis software in a letter to Congress calling for new efforts to pursue justice and racial equity, new Chief Executive Office... More »

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Logitech sales surge as working from home boosts demand

(Reuters) – Logitech International (LOGN.S) reported a 13.6% rise in quarterly sales on Tuesday as more people used its computer products while working from home due to the coronavirus crisis. Logitech said demand accelerated in the three months to the end of ... More »

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IBM sees shift in client spend priorities, withdraws annual forecast

(Reuters) – International Business Machines Corp’s (IBM.N) clients have shifted priorities toward saving capital in recent weeks because of COVID-19, hitting software sales in particular, new Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna said as the company withdrew ... More »

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Emotion-sensing robot launches to assist space station astronauts

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An intelligent robot equipped with emotion-sensing voice detectors was headed to the International Space Station after launching from Florida on Thursday, becoming the latest artificial intelligence-powered astronaut workmate in orbit. T... More »

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HP reiterates its rejection of Xerox’s offer to buy the company

(Reuters) – HP Inc (HPQ.N) reiterated on Sunday its rejection of Xerox Corp’s (XRX.N) $33.5 billion cash-and-stock offer for the company, adding that the proposal “significantly undervalues HP.” The personal computer maker said last Sunday it rebuffed Xerox’s ... More »

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Made in China: Samsung farms out more phones to fend off rivals

SEOUL (Reuters) – Samsung’s plan to outsource a fifth of its smartphone production to China next year may help it compete with low-cost rivals such as Huawei and Xiaomi but it’s a strategy fraught with risks, people with familiar with the move said. Samsung El... More »

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Microsoft: ‘appreciate’ winning JEDI contract – statement

(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) said in a statement on Saturday that the company appreciates being chosen by the U.S. Defense department (DoD) for the Pentagon’s $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud (JEDI) contract. “We look forward t... More »

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GlobalFoundries seeks to ban U.S. import of TSMC clients’ products

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Contract chipmaker GlobalFoundries has sued larger rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) for patent infringement, seeking to stop the defendant’s customers including Apple from importing affected products to the United States ... More »

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Oil group Total hopes new supercomputer will help it find oil…

PARIS (Reuters) – Energy major Total said its new supercomputer – which has propelled it to a world ranking as the most powerful computer in the sector – will enable its geologists to find oil faster, cheaper and with a better success rate. The Pangea III comp... More »

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U.S. chipmakers quietly lobby to ease Huawei ban

SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Huawei’s American chip suppliers, including Qualcomm and Intel, are quietly pressing the U.S. government to ease its ban on sales to the Chinese tech giant, even as Huawei itself avoids typical government lobbying, people f... More »

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China calls in foreign tech firms after Huawei sales ban: sources

BEIJING (Reuters) – China summoned global technology companies for talks last week following last month’s U.S. ban on selling technology to China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Sunday. The blacklisting of Huaw... More »

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China ministry will issue 5G licenses for commercial use in near…

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) will roll out commercial 5G licenses “in the near future”, Xinhua said. It did not provide further details. Beijing had granted licenses at the end of 2018 to China’s three sta... More »

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U.S.-based engineers’ body lifts curbs on Huawei employees

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) said on Monday curbs on employees of Huawei Technologies and its subsidiaries have been lifted, and they would be allowed to participate in a peer review process for its research... More »

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China’s NetEase to launch first official Pokemon game in China

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chinese gaming giant NetEase said on Monday it would partner with The Pokemon Company and Gamefreak for the domestic release of Pokemon Quest, marking the first official Pokemon mobile game release in China. NetEase also said it would form... More »

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Autism in the workplace: A spectrum of hiring choices

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Like many transplants to Chicago, Chris Easton needed to adjust to winter after moving from Atlanta to take a job as a database engineer at the accounting firm EY. Among other work-life skills, Easton, 23, who is on the autism spectrum, le... More »

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Autonomy founder Lynch set for $5 billion Hewlett-Packard court…

LONDON (Reuters) – Mike Lynch, once hailed as Britain’s answer to Bill Gates, faces Hewlett-Packard (HP) in London’s High Court on Monday in a multi-billion dollar showdown over the U.S. technology company’s 2011 purchase of the Autonomy software business he f... More »

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U.S. adds criminal charges against ex-Autonomy CEO Lynch

(Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors on Friday added three new criminal charges to their indictment against British entrepreneur Mike Lynch related to the $11.1 billion sale of his software company Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard in 2011. Lynch faces a new charge of secur... More »

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White House to host CEOs for workforce advisory meeting

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Wednesday is hosting major chief executives who joined a Trump administration advisory board on workforce issues. Last month, the White House said the chief executives of Apple Inc, Walmart Inc, IBM Corp, Lockheed Mart... More »

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Explainer: What’s at stake in U.S.-China trade talks

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin are in Beijing this week as Chinese and American negotiators try to hammer out a trade deal to ease a trade war and avert an increase in U.S. tariffs ... More »

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Samsung to launch India-first smartphones to counter Chinese rivals

MUMBAI (Reuters) – Samsung (005930.KS) plans to launch a budget smartphone series in India ahead of a global release, aiming to regain ground ceded to Chinese rivals such as Xiaomi (1810.HK) in the world’s second-biggest mobile phone market. The South Korean c... More »

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Apple cuts first-quarter production plan for new iPhones by 10…

(Reuters) – Apple Inc (AAPL.O), which slashed its quarterly sales forecast last week, has reduced planned production for its three new iPhone models by about 10 percent for the January-March quarter, the Nikkei Asian Review reported on Wednesday. That rare for... More »

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Apple warning shakes European shares as tech stocks tumble

LONDON (Reuters) – Apple’s first sales warning in nearly 12 years sent European shares sliding on Thursday, with the tech sector particularly badly bruised as chipmakers that supply the iPhone maker fell sharply. The pan-European STOXX 600 fell 0.9 percent as ... More »

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European shares claw back losses after Wall Street bounce

LONDON (Reuters) – European shares edged up on Friday, buoyed by a bounce on Wall Street as a turbulent week drew to a close and investors licked their wounds after the region’s benchmark STOXX 600 sank to its lowest level since U.S. President Donald Trump’s e... More »

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Exclusive: Foxconn to begin assembling top-end Apple iPhones in…

MUMBAI/DELHI (Reuters) – Apple Inc will begin assembling its top-end iPhones in India through the local unit of Foxconn as early as 2019, the first time the Taiwanese contract manufacturer will have made the product in the country, according to a source famili... More »

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Dell near deal to swap out DVMT tracking shares: WSJ

(Reuters) – Dell Inc is close to a deal to combine shares that track its VMware Inc virtualization-software unit in an effort that would result in a public listing for the personal computer and data storage company, the Wall Street Journal said on Sunday. Citi... More »

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European shares crawl up from trade war sell-off

LONDON (Reuters) – European shares made a modest bounce on Tuesday, recovering slightly after trade tensions sent stock markets into a spiral as investors shed risky assets. The pan-European STOXX 600 was up 0.3 percent by 0837 GMT, but was far from making up ... More »

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Bain says will help Toshiba Memory pursue big acquisitions

TOKYO (Reuters) – Bain Capital, which led the $18 billion acquisition of Toshiba Memory Corp, said on Monday it plans to support the business in pursuing M&A in the chip industry, including potentially large deals. The world’s No. 2 maker of NAND chips is expe... More »

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The wit and wisdom of Warren Buffett, ‘Oracle of Omaha’

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Billionaire investor Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Inc Vice Chairman Charlie Munger are answering five hours of questions from shareholders, journalists and analysts at Berkshire’s annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska. The weekend kno... More »

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Apple hits record high after Buffett’s Berkshire increases stake

(Reuters) – Apple Inc’s stock hit an all-time high on Friday after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc disclosed it bought an additional 75 million shares of the iPhone maker in the first three months of the year. Buffett’s increased stake, which was confi... More »

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Exclusive: U.S. considers tightening grip on China ties to…

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. government may start scrutinizing informal partnerships between American and Chinese companies in the field of artificial intelligence, threatening practices that have long been considered garden variety development work for techn... More »

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European funds buy bonds, see euro growth cycle peak: Reuters poll

LONDON (Reuters) – European investors have raised their bond allocations in March while keeping their equity exposure at six-month lows, in a month marked by a sharp tech sector selloff and brewing trade tensions that threatened to dent world economic growth. ... More »

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Barack Obama in talks to create shows for Netflix: New York Times

(Reuters) – Former U.S. president Barack Obama is in advanced talks with Netflix Inc to produce a series of high-profile shows, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. Under the terms of a proposed deal, Netflix will pa... More »

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Dialog expects to supply chips to Apple through 2020: CEO in paper

FILE PHOTO: Dialog semiconductor logo is pictured at a company building in Germering near Munich, Germany August 15, 2016. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle/File Photo FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Dialog Semiconductor (DLGS.DE) expects Apple (AAPL.O), its top customer, to use i... More »

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Big pharma, big data: why drugmakers want your health records

FILE PHOTO: A surgery nurse is seen beside the heart beat monitor in the operating theatre of the Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin (UKB) hospital in Berlin, Germany February 29, 2008. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch /File Photo LONDON (Reuters) – Drugmakers are racing to scoo... More »

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India’s Reliance, global tech firms to invest $9.3 billion in…

FILE PHOTO: Labourers work behind an advertisement of Reliance Industries Limited at a construction site in Mumbai, India, March 2, 2016. REUTERS/Shailesh Andrade/File Photo MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s Reliance Industries Ltd and global technology companies wil... More »

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Qualcomm warns of customer losses, legal hazards to Broadcom buyout

FILE PHOTO: A sign on the Qualcomm campus is seen, as chip maker Broadcom Ltd announced an unsolicited bid to buy peer Qualcomm Inc for $103 billion, in San Diego, California, U.S. November 6, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo (Reuters) – Qualcomm Inc warned... More »

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Apple Music U.S. subscriber growth outpacing Spotify: WSJ

Customers enter the Apple store on 5th Avenue beneath an Apple logo in the Manhattan borough of New York City, July 21, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Segar NEW YORK (Reuters) – Apple Music is on track to overtake Spotify by number of U.S. subscribers, the Wall Street Jou... More »

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Blockchain to track Congo’s cobalt from mine to mobile

FILE PHOTO: Part of Tilwizembe, a former industrial copper-cobalt mine now occupied by artisanal miners, is seen outside Kolwezi, the capital city of Lualaba Province in the south of Democratic Republic of Congo, June 11, 2016. REUTERS/Aaron Ross/File Photo LO... More »

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Sony CEO Hirai to step down, turnaround ally Yoshida to take helm

FILE PHOTO: Sony Corp’s Chief Financial Officer Kenichiro Yoshida attends a news conference at its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, February 2, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Sony Corp said CEO Kazuo Hirai would be handing over the reins t... More »

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Apple’s user base grows, but analysts probe for more detail

FILE PHOTO: An Apple Store staff shows Apple’s new iPhones X after they go on sale at the Apple Store in Regents Street, London, Britain, November 3, 2017. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls/File Photo (Reuters) – In its quarterly earnings report on Thursday, Apple Inc ga... More »

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I tweet from bed sometimes, Trump says

U.S. President Donald Trump waves as he arrives in Zurich, Switzerland January 25, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Barria LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump, who has garnered a large following on social media with rambunctious postings, said he sometimes twee... More »

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Dell considering acquisitions or possible IPO: sources

A Dell gaming computer is shown at the E3 2017 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, California, U.S. June 13, 2017. REUTERS/ Mike Blake (Reuters) – U.S. computer maker Dell Technologies Inc is exploring a range of options that could see the world’s la... More »

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Western Digital’s strong forecast eases fears of fading chip boom

FILE PHOTO: A Western Digital office building under construction is shown in Irvine, California, U.S., January 24, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo (Reuters) – Western Digital Corp (WDC.O) gave strong profit forecasts for the current quarter and the full ye... More »

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Ex-IBM employee from China gets five years prison for stealing code

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former software engineer for IBM in China was sentenced to five years in prison after he pleaded guilty to stealing proprietary source code from the company, prosecutors announced on Friday. Jiaqiang Xu, 32, was sentenced on Thursday by ... More »

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End of a chip boom? Memory chip price drop spooks investors

Mobile memory chips made by chipmaker SK Hynix are seen in this picture illustration taken in Seoul May 10, 2013. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won SEOUL (Reuters) – After a blistering year-and-a-half long surge, a sudden drop in some memory prices, followed by Samsung Elec... More »

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Fields of Gold? Jana seeks new money, allies with impact hedge fund

FILE PHOTO: Barry Rosenstein, managing partner of Jana Partners, speaks at a panel discussion at the SALT conference in Las Vegas May 14, 2014. SALT is produced by SkyBridge Capital, a global investment firm. REUTERS/Rick Wilking/File Photo BOSTON (Reuters) – ... More »

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Uproar over crackdown on cryptocurrencies divides South Korea

A man walks past an electric board showing exchange rates of various cryptocurrencies at Bithumb cryptocurrencies exchange in Seoul, South Korea, January 11, 2018. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji SEOUL (Reuters) – With a tech-savvy population quick to adopt the latest gad... More »

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Some Chinese Apple users warned by firm on dodging new data law

FILE PHOTO: A woman looks at the screen of her mobile phone in front of an Apple logo outside its store in Shanghai, China July 30, 2017. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo BEIJING (Reuters) – Some Chinese users of Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) products who have created Apple... More »

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Explainer: How chip flaws Spectre, Meltdown work and what’s next

A hooded man holds a laptop computer as blue screen with an exclamation mark is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – Smartphones, PCs and servers across the world have rec... More »

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Samsung profit guidance disappoints, memory outlook cloudy

FILE PHOTO: The logo of Samsung Electronics is seen at its office building in Seoul, South Korea South Korea, October 11, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/File Photo SEOUL (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) said it would likely rake in a record fourth... More »

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Lenovo to make $400 million one-off charge on U.S. tax reforms

FILE PHOTO – A Lenovo logo is seen on a computer in Kiev, Ukraine April 21, 2016. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich/File Photo HONG KONG (Reuters) – Lenovo Group Ltd said on Wednesday it expected to make a one-off charge of $400 million for nine months ended in December d... More »

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Huawei’s AT&T U.S. smartphone deal collapses

FILE PHOTO: Visitors try Huawei’s devices during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, February 27, 2017. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard/File Photo HONG KONG (Reuters) – Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s [HWT.UL] planned deal with U.S. carrier AT&T Inc (T.N) to sell it... More »

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SEC mixes message on Apple shareholder proposals, activists say

FILE PHOTO: A customer looks at her Apple iPhone X at an Apple store in New York, U.S., November 3, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo BOSTON (Reuters) – Apple Inc was allowed to disregard one activist shareholder proposal on greenhouse gas emissions but t... More »

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This year’s lumps of coal could be 2018’s diamonds

FILE PHOTO: A street sign for Wall Street is seen outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., December 28, 2016. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Investors saddled in 2017 with the market’s worst performers, incl... More »

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As energy markets evolve, blockchain powers up

An Electrify SG engineer shows a PowerPod that will be installed to record data of photovoltaic solar panels on a rooftop in Singapore. REUTERS/Edgar Su SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Energy startups have been using blockchain to power electricity sharing in microgrid ... More »

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India raises import tax on cellphones, move to hurt Apple

FILE PHOTO: A woman talks on her mobile phone on a pavement in Kolkata, India July 5, 2017. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri/File Photo NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India has increased the import tax on dozens of electronic products such as mobile phones and television set... More »

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Amazon Prime Video now available on Apple TV

The Amazon TV button on a remote control is shown in this photo illustration. Picture taken November 10, 2017 REUTERS/Mike Blake (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc and Apple Inc have partnered to bring the Amazon Prime Video app to Apple TV in more than 100 countries,... More »

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China’s Xi says country will not close door to global internet

Chinese magazines featuring China’s President Xi Jinping on the cover are seen during the fourth World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province, China, December 3, 2017. REUTERS/Aly Song WUZHEN, China (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Su... More »

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Amazon steps up pace in artificial intelligence race

Attendees at Amazon.com Inc annual cloud computing conference walk past the Amazon Web Services logo in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., November 30, 2017. REUTERS/Salvador Rodriguez LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc this week announced a flurry of new machine lear... More »

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Qualcomm files new patent infringement complaints against Apple

A sign on the Qualcomm campus is seen, as chip maker Broadcom Ltd announced an unsolicited bid to buy peer Qualcomm Inc for $103 billion, in San Diego, California, U.S. November 6, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake (Reuters) – Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) said on Thursday it ... More »

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Dialog shares tank on report Apple to design own power chips

FILE PHOTO: The new iPhone X is pictured at the Apple Store Marche Saint-Germain in Paris, France, November 3, 2017. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File Photo FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Apple is designing its own power-management chips for use in iPhones as early as 2018, ... More »

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Now hiring? Amazon says its voice aide Alexa is ready for the office

The Amazon Echo, a voice-controlled virtual assistant, is seen at it’s product launch for Britain and Germany in London, Britain, September 14, 2016. REUTER/Peter Hobson (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) wants to be your new executive assistant at work. The ... More »

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China stocks extend losses after worst day in months

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chinese stocks slipped further on Friday after the biggest selloff in months the previous day, with fresh government steps to reduce financial risks and a rout in the bond market sapping investors’ confidence. The blue-chip CSI300 Index .C... More »

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Alonso launches his own eSport team

Formula One F1 – Brazilian Grand Prix 2017 – Sao Paulo, Brazil – November 12, 2017 McLaren’s Fernando Alonso ahead of the Brazilian Grand Prix REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Double world champion Fernando Alonso has become the first Formula One... More »

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U.S. patent review board becomes conservative target

FILE PHOTO: Demonstrators supporting the organization U.S. Inventors burn patents in front of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office during a protest in Alexandria, Virginia, U.S. on August 11, 2017. REUTERS/Jan Wolfe/File Photo NEW YORK(Reuters) – In August, a ... More »

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IBM could be set for gains after long slump: Barron’s

The logo for IBM is seen at the SIBOS banking and financial conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada October 19, 2017. Picture taken October 19, 2017. REUTERS/Chris Helgren – RC14185AA8E0 NEW YORK (Reuters) – International Business Machines Corp (IBM.N) could be... More »