Chinese mobile phone maker Huawei is set to lose $30 billion this year because of trade problems with the US and other countries around the world. But the company’s CEO, Ren Zhengfei, isn’t stressing out about it, he told CNBC in an interview on Wednesday. Huawei’s original forecast for this year was $130 billion, but …
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Google has responded to reports that it’s stealing lyrics from Genius, explaining how it finds lyrics to show on its search pages. Google conceded its lyrics feature has been “under scrutiny this week,” but said it pays music publishers for the rights to display their lyrics. Reports on the alleged lyrics thefts, which emerged in The Wall Street Journal last …
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Microsoft’s online store has resumed selling Huawei laptops, after disappearing MateBooks from the Microsoft Store after the Chinese tech giant was blacklisted by the US. The US last month added Huawei to its “entity list,” and President Donald Trump signed an executive order essentially banning the company in light of national security concerns that Huawei had close ties with the Chinese government. Huawei has repeatedly denied …
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Huawei is moving to trademark the name of its operating system, “Hongmeng,” in Peru. The Chinese tech giant is also objecting to its US ban through an ex parte letter to the Federal Communications Commission. Google last month locked Huawei out of its Android updates, though the US Commerce Department granted it a three-month general license to update existing devices. …
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New York City will continue to cap the number of ride-hailing vehicles from services like Uber and Lyft that are allowed on its streets. The move aims to fight congestion and provide higher wages, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Wednesday. The city council had voted to cap the number of ride-hailing vehicles in New York City back in August 2018. The regulation was …
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Huawei is reportedly inviting Google Play Store developers to publish their apps on its own AppGallery app store. Google last month locked Huawei out of its Android updates, though the US Commerce Department granted the Chinese tech giant a three-month general license to update existing devices, temporarily easing restrictions on Huawei’s access to US components. Huawei’s phones run on a …
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Lyft has filed a lawsuit to block San Francisco from granting bike share permits to other companies. Lyft entered the San Francisco Bay Area bike share market last year by acquiring Motivate, the company behind Ford GoBike. Uber is in the market thanks to its Jump acquisition in April 2018. The suit, filed in San Francisco Superior Court on Friday, is asking …
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A swathe of news sites including The Guardian, the Washington Post, The Intercept, HuffPost, NBC News, the Toronto Star, the Christian Science Monitor and Breitbart News have reportedly been blocked in China. The Great Firewall of China already bars citizens from accessing non-Chinese social media sources including Facebook, Google, Gmail, Twitter and Microsoft’s Bing, and last month China also blocked …
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A trial began in Texas on Tuesday over Huawei’s charge that one of its former engineering managers stole trade secrets and lured away employees to form his CNEX Labs chipmaking startup, says a Reuters report. In October, Huawei filed a lawsuit against CNEX and Ronnie Huang for allegedly stealing its solid-state disk storage technology that’s found in thumb drives, smartphones and laptops. …
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A lawsuit filed by three iTunes customers claims Apple is sending personal user data to third parties to boost its revenues. It is alleged that Apple is selling, renting or disclosing full names, addresses, genres of music and specific titles of songs purchased on the iTunes Store app on iPhones without consent or notification. According to documents filed with the United …
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