US to ease Huawei sanctions for another 90 days
The US will extend for another 90 days a narrow set of exemptions that had protected rural networks and other US customers from a ban on doing business with China’s Huawei Technologies.
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Google, Facebook unite with Trump to protest French tech tax
The relationship between Donald Trump and the largest US technology companies has often been frosty but a common opponent – France’s plan to tax US tech giants – will bring the two sides together, at least temporarily.
US carriers are throttling Netflix ‘all the time’
US wireless carriers have long said they may slow video traffic on their networks to avoid congestion and bottlenecks. But new research shows the throttling happens pretty much everywhere all the time.
‘Huawei is a company we may not do business with at all’: Trump
Trump pushed back on media reports this weekend that the US commerce department is poised, as soon as Monday, to renew Huawei Technologies’ temporary general licence to buy supplies for the US.
‘Absolutely filthy’: Greenpeace warns over Eskom pollution
The area around coal-fired plants owned by Eskom ranks as the world’s second largest hotspot of sulphur dioxide emissions, according to Greenpeace.
Apple’s Cook frets about Samsung edge in trade war
US President Donald Trump said Apple CEO Tim Cook voiced concerns about Samsung Electronics getting an edge because its products, unlike Apple’s, won’t be subject to tariffs when imported by the US.
Swiss meeting to focus on Facebook’s libra
Facebook’s libra cryptocurrency will be discussed as a delegation of American lawmakers visits Switzerland in the coming days.
Tech brought us together but is now holding back innovation
Shouldn’t we have space colonies and a universal cure for cancer by now? Instead, there are signs that the pace of technological progress is slowing.
Facebook may have listened to users’ chats without consent
Facebook said that the only people who were affected were those who agreed to have their audio messages transcribed. That makes it sound like users agreed to have their chats read by third parties. Not so.
Spotify to test more expensive version of popular music service
Spotify Technology plans to sell a more expensive version of its music service in Scandinavia, a test to see whether it can raise prices around the world, according to people familiar with the matter.