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It’s going to get harder for Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei to sell its smartphones in the US. Best Buy, the nation’s largest electronics retailer, has ceased ordering new smartphones from Huawei and will stop selling its products over the next few weeks, according to a person familiar with the situation. The retailer will also stop …

Editors’ note, Oct. 31: Apple has announced a new version of the MacBook Air, which starts at $1,199 and features a Retina display, Touch ID and USB-C ports. The version mentioned below remains on sale, for now, and still starts at $999. The original article, published on Mar. 21, follows. Cheapskate Jr. is headed off to college in the fall. …

Here’s a basic rundown of Oppo, a company you may or may not have heard of: It’s the fourth biggest phone brand in the world and it makes some great phones — but they usually look way too much like iPhones. The Chinese giant’s newest phones, the R15 and the R15 Dream Mirror Edition, were officially unveiled on Tuesday. In …

Foreign countries may be growing wary of products developed in China, but that hasn’t stopped international brands from leveraging WeChat’s popularity and reportedly spending millions to engage with potential customers. Nike and McDonald’s have become the first companies to advertise on the Chinese social-messaging platform’s wildly popular mini game called Tiao Yi Tiao, loosely translated as Jump, WeChat announced on …

It’s a real name-changer.  Google announced Thursday that it’s got a new name fo Android Wear, its software that powers a wide-ranging lineup of wearables like smartwatches. From here on out, you’ll know it as Wear OS, and reminder, it’s not connected to Google’s mobile operating system. A big part of the reason for the change: One-third of new Android …

With 2016’s P10, Huawei became one of the first companies to put dual cameras on a phone. The P20, to be unveiled March 27 in Paris, is rumoured to have not two, but three rear shooters. We’ll find out how true that is in a matter of weeks, but based on new photos obtained by CNET en Español, we have …

Donald Trump just stepped into the global 5G “arms race.” President Trump has killed the Qualcomm-Broadcom deal.  Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images The US president late Monday issued an executive order blocking a corporate merger, Broadcom’s proposed $117 billion deal to buy mobile chip giant Qualcomm, citing national security concerns. The order came a week after the Committee on Foreign …

LG’s flagship G7, which was MIA at MWC, might not launch until May, according to a report by Korea’s ETNews. That launch date would be 15 months after the company unveiled its G6 in February 2017, but would remain consistent with previous statements by the company that it wouldn’t stick to a strict yearly release cycle.  LG has steadily lost ground to stalwart Android rival Samsung, …

Snowflakes begin to fall upon Nokia’s makeshift Finnish village at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona. For a moment, I’m charmed by the company’s all-in commitment to re-creating a scene straight out of Lapland on the Mediterranean coast, via what I presume is a fake snow machine. But then it dawns on me: there is nothing fake about …

FBI Director Chris Wray said last month he didn’t exactly trust products from Chinese telecom companies like Huawei and ZTE. Apparently, it’s a suspicion shared by Australia’s Defence Department. WeChat, an instant messaging app that’s huge in China, has been banned by the Defence Department, meaning it’s not allowed on any official’s phone, reports the Australian Finance Report. Facebook is …