As Amazon.com works to speed orders to customer doorsteps before Christmas, the e-commerce giant is touting an accomplishment that would have seemed absurd just a few years ago.
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Bernard Ebbers, the former WorldCom CEO, was ordered freed from prison, almost eight years before he was due to be released.
Edward Snowden can’t profit from his recently released memoir because he failed to get pre-publication clearance from US security agencies, a judge ruled.
The US government is weighing new limits on sales of chips and other vital components to China’s Huawei Technologies, sparking another furious round of lobbying by technology companies.
Intel has bought Habana Labs, an Israeli start-up that develops chips for artificial intelligence applications, for about $2-billion to bolster its efforts in the fast-growing market for AI silicon.
China’s ambassador threatened Germany with retaliation if it excludes Huawei Technologies as a supplier of 5G wireless equipment, citing the millions of vehicles German car makers sell in China.
US President Donald Trump signed off on a phase-one trade deal with China, averting the 15 December introduction of a new wave of US tariffs on about $160-billion of consumer goods from the Asian nation.
Oracle executive chairman Larry Ellison said the software giant won’t hire a second CEO to run the business alongside Safra Catz, deciding not to replace the late Mark Hurd.
Adobe reported sales that topped Wall Street estimates, signalling strong demand for the company’s creative and marketing software.
A 20-month trade war between the US and China came to a head this week as a key deadline looms. This Sunday, 15% tariffs are due to kick in on the iPhone.