While 2019 started off with expectations of Huawei challenging Samsung for the title of world’s most prolific smartphone vendor, it’s the more familiar foe of Apple that’s now threatening the South Korean titan’s throne.
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Cosatu, a key ruling party ally, is pushing senior members of government to consider its proposals to rescue the state’s indebted power utility before next month’s budget.
Facebook’s growth is slowing, adding pressure to a company facing more restrictive privacy regulations and continued scrutiny from global lawmakers and antitrust officials.
Samsung Electronics’ earnings report and outlook reflect doom and gloom. Many are surprised. Positive signs from chip rival TSMC and smartphone stalwart Apple had fed the belief that it would put the worst behind it.
Donald Trump’s top aides spent more than a year demanding that key allies ban Huawei from next-generation wireless networks. That’s not working out so well for the US president.
Boris Johnson insisted the decision to allow Huawei to play a limited role in the UK’s 5G infrastructure would not “imperil our relationship” with the US as he faced a backlash from Tory MPs and US Republicans.
An Israeli cybersecurity firm said it believes a new strain of ransomware was created by Iran and has the ability to lock up or even delete industrial control systems.
Britain will let Huawei Technologies play a limited role in building the country’s next-generation mobile phone networks, denying a long-running attempt by the US to have the Chinese tech giant barred.
South African mining companies plan to build 609MW of electricity generating capacity, if they can get official approval for the projects.
Apple has asked suppliers to make as many as 80 million iPhones in the first half of this year, an increase of more than 10% from the previous year’s output, the Nikkei newspaper reported.