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On this podcast, we talk about: ZTE potentially losing the right to use Android thanks to a US Commerce Department ban. Amazon partnering with Best Buy to sell smart TVs.  California’s net neutrality bill taking one more step toward becoming a law. Our uber-profile of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.  The 3:59 gives you bite-size news …

ZTE’s has been playing the US market on hard mode in recent months, but now it’s looking more like mission impossible. After ZTE was caught shipping goods to Iran, the US Commerce Department on Monday banned US companies from selling hardware and software to the Chinese electronics company for seven years. Now, a source tells Reuters this could preclude Google …

Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant perennially in the crosshairs of the US government, is shaking up the team responsible for its relationships here. The company let go of several American staffers in DC, according to a person familiar with the situation. Among them is William Plummer, a nearly eight-year Huawei veteran who was the man most responsible for establishing the …

Now playing: Watch this: Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV just got a much cheaper choice… 4:07 On this podcast, we talk about: Philo, the cheapest live-TV streaming service around, heading to Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV The US government dropping the hammer on ZTE, a Chinese phone company Facebook’s problem with memes and disinformation The 3:59 gives you …

Chinese phone maker Huawei may be gunning for the “world’s first” foldable smartphone. The company reportedly plans to announce its foldable phone in November this year, according to Korean news outlet ETNews (via PhoneArena). Enlarge Image The foldable Huawei phone will reportedly use flexible displays from LG Display. LG Display If the concept of a folding smartphone that could double …

Heading into this year, Huawei’s prospects for finally gaining a foothold in the US appeared to be brightening. The world’s third-largest smartphone maker had just launched its latest flagship, the Huawei Mate 10 Pro, and it was garnering favorable reviews. Speculation had bubbled up that Huawei was poised to announce a partnership with AT&T, the second-largest carrier in the US …

If all the rumors are right, you won’t be able to escape foldable phones if you try.  The latest scuttlebutt is that Apple is on track to join Samsung and Huawei in a growing group of device makers planning to make a foldable phone. While Samsung’s may arrive by the end of 2018, a foldable iPhone is said to be …

FCC chairman Ajit Pai is proposing new rules that would bar telecommunications and broadband companies from using a government subsidy program to buy telecom equipment and services from “any company that poses a national security threat.” Pai didn’t specify which companies or countries would be banned as part of the proposal. Officials from the FCC said on a call with …

If a foldable iPhone sounds crazy to you, just wait two years.  Apple is reportedly planning to release in 2020 an iPhone that folds, according to analysts from Bank of America Merrill Lynch (via CNBC), citing several Apple suppliers as sources. The analysts speculate that a folding iPhone may be able to open up and be used like an iPad …

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 selling its laptops and smartwatches. …