US senator Josh Hawley has introduced a bill that would ban all mergers and acquisitions by any company with a market value greater than $100-billion.
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Microsoft is making a massive bet on health-care artificial intelligence. The software giant is set to buy Nuance Communications, tapping the company tied to the Siri voice technology.
China’s Huawei is making business resilience its top priority with a push to develop its software capabilities as it seeks to overcome US restrictions that have devastated its smartphone business.
The rally in tech shares has taken the number of people with fortunes of more than $100-billion to eight.
Some LinkedIn data, including publicly viewable member profiles, has been extracted and posted for sale, Microsoft’s professional networking site said based on an investigation.
The US added seven Chinese supercomputing firms to a list of entities banned from receiving exports from American companies, citing activities contrary to the national security interests of the US.
Production of some of Apple’s MacBooks and iPads has been postponed due to a global component shortage, the Nikkei reported on Thursday.
Samsung Electronics on Wednesday said first quarter profit likely rose 44%, with analysts attributing the surge to brisk sales of smartphones and TVs.
Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, said it’s offering a revamped version of its Xeon range in time for what it sees as the “biggest build-out of technology infrastructure in human history”.
Clubhouse, the buzzy, audio-based social network, is in talks to raise funding from investors in a round valuing the business at about US$4-billion, according to people familiar with the matter.