IBM has named Arvind Krishna as chief executive officer, replacing longtime CEO Ginni Rometty. She will be remembered for two main things: shrinking sales and initiating IBM’s third major transformation.
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Two defunct satellites, racing across the sky at around 53 000km/h, narrowly missed smashing into each other on Thursday. They may have come within 47m of each other at their closest approach.
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.
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.
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.
Apple is still reaping huge profits from the iPhone while mining more moneymaking opportunities from the growing popularity of its smartwatch, digital services and wireless earbuds.
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.
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.
Bitcoin’s claim for being digital gold appears to have another piece of evidence in its corner. In a day where global stocks plunged on concerns over the deadly coronavirus, the cryptocurrency gained as much as 5.8%.