Google aims to power its data centres and offices solely with renewable energy by 2030, its CEO said, becoming the biggest company in the world to commit to ditching coal and natural gas power.
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Six weeks after announcing to the world it was in talks to buy TikTok, Microsoft comes out to tell us it didn’t get the gig. CEO Satya Nadella dodged a bullet. Now the gun is aimed directly at Oracle and its chairman, Larry Ellison.
South Africa’s economy will likely contract this year by more than the 7% previously forecast by the treasury, Finance Minister Tito Mboweni said in an opinion piece published on Sunday.
Nvidia’s $40-billion agreement to acquire ARM is likely to meet strong opposition from Nvidia’s chip industry rivals, analysts say, with murmurs of protest already emerging in South Korea and China.
ByteDance abandoned the sale of TikTok in the US on Sunday to pursue a partnership with Oracle that it hopes will spare it a US ban while appeasing China’s government, people familiar with the matter said.
Nvidia will buy UK-based chip designer ARM from Japan’s SoftBank Group for as much as US$40-billion, the companies said on Monday, in a deal set to reshape the global semiconductor landscape.
Beijing opposes a forced sale of TikTok’s US operations by its Chinese owner ByteDance, and would prefer to see the short-video app shut down in the US, people with knowledge of the matter said.
A good decade after Nokia’s mobile phone business suffered a fatal blow at the hands of the iPhone, the Finnish company is still feeding off a lucrative asset that it salvaged from the wreckage.
The latest additions to China’s list of controlled technology exports could upset a broad range of industries and raise the possibility that some global tech giants might have to split off their Chinese operations.
Huawei plans to introduce its HarmonyOS operating system, seen as the company’s best bet to replace Google’s Android mobile operating system, on smartphones next year.