Facebook is building a team to design its own semiconductors, adding to a trend among technology companies to supply themselves and lower their dependence on chip makers such as Intel and Qualcomm
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ZTE executives are evaluating software options for the company’s smartphones after a US technology ban threatened to cut off the operating system at the heart of its devices, a person with knowledge of the
Google has unveiled a new, lightweight search app aimed at emerging markets. The app, called Google Go, has been launched in 26 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including South Africa, and is available
When Apple’s HomePod smart speaker went on sale in January, it entered a market pioneered and dominated by Amazon’s Echo line-up of Alexa-powered devices. Apple, which has arrived late before only to overtake
Spotify Technology is developing a new version of its free music service, the first big product change since the streaming company went public last week, according to people familiar with the matter. The company
As the US and China threaten to impose tariffs on goods from aluminium to wine, the two nations are waging a separate economic battle that could determine who owns the next wave of computing. Chinese universities and US
Despite the enormous run-up in global technology stocks in the past five years – and the recent stomach-churning volatility – the market isn’t repeating the dot-com euphoria of 1999 and South African investors would
Apple is working on touchless gesture control and curved screens for future iPhones, projects that may help the company differentiate its most-important product in an increasingly crowded market, according to
At Microsoft’s Dutch research facility at the Delft University of Technology, several large cylindrical metal tubes hang from the ceiling. Each tube – a dilution refrigerator used to cool circuits down to temperatures colder than
Google could owe Oracle billions of dollars after an appeals court said it didn’t have the right to use the Oracle-owned Java programming code in its Android operating system on mobile devices. Google’s use of Java