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ByteDance, the Chinese company behind the TikTok social video app, is working on its own phone, a report said Monday. It’ll preload the phone with its own apps, including TikTok, newsfeeds and games, according to the Financial Times, which cited two anonymous sources. The device, which ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming has wanted for a while, …

Huawei isn’t just in trouble. China’s premiere maker of Android phones and networking equipment is in the kind of trouble that could break its business and detonate its ambitions of surpassing Samsung to become the world’s largest phone brand by 2020. Despite being banned from working with US companies, Huawei is confident its phone business will continue to grow without …

Anyone can get into Nigeria’s tech scene, says Chibuzor Obiora. That wasn’t true just a few years ago. A 29-year-old developer, Obiora began coding in 2014 when he was hired by Andela, a Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative-sponsored tech firm that offers Africans paid training in software development. Back then, his colleagues were all men around his age and older. But in the …

The US government may have banned Huawei from using any software or hardware created by American companies, but China’s massive phone maker is defiant that the lack of American partner support won’t break the brand, even if its traditionally Android-based devices are cut off from Android while Google cuts off business ties following President Trump’s executive order. No stranger to tension …

The Amazon Japan store became the latest entity to ice out Huawei by removing all its products from direct sale, a Nikkei report said Friday. Despite the end of direct sales, Amazon Japan customers can still buy Huawei phones, tablets and PCs through third-party sellers in the online marketplace, Nikkei noted. The Chinese company’s devices were listed as out of …

The Trump administration ban on Huawei using technology made by US companies continues to have ramifications for the Chinese phone maker. On Friday, two tech standards organizations reportedly cut ties with Huawei.   The Wi-Fi Alliance has “temporarily restricted” Huawei’s participation, and the SD Association removed Huawei from its organization, according to multiple reports. The Wi-Fi Alliance promotes and certifies Wi-Fi …

The US ban on Huawei could be used as a way to negotiate a better trade deal. President Donald Trump told reporters Friday that he could use an offer to reverse the blacklisting of Huawei as leverage in the escalating trade tensions between the two nations, according to CNN. “Huawei is something that’s very dangerous,” Trump reportedly said. “[But] it’s …

China’s largest chipmaker plans to delist from the New York Stock Exchange. Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) cited limited trading volumes in the US in comparison to the rest of the world as the reason for delisting, according to the South China Morning post on Friday. SMIC also said “the significant administrative burden and costs of maintaining the listing” on …

Huawei is still “far from ready” to launch its own operating system, but it may have a name at least, according to reports. The phone maker received the trademark “Hongmeng” for the system from the Chinese National Intellectual Property Administration, after working on it under the internal code name “Project Z,” The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Separately, sources told …

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has accused Huawei of lying about its government ties, while China has asked the US government to cease its “wrong actions” if trade talks are to continue, CNBC is reporting. Last week, the US blacklisted networking gear from Huawei, and President Donald Trump signed an executive order essentially banning the Chinese tech giant following national security …