‘US investigates Alibaba Cloud as a potential national security risk’
Reuters reports that the US government is investigating Alibaba to determine whether the organization poses a national security risk.
According to three people briefed on the matter, the Biden administration is investigating Alibaba to determine whether the Chinese government has access to Ameri...
Huawei warns that it will see “serious challenges” in 2022
The tech giant is worried about growing deglobalisation and the "politicisation of technology"
The US sanctions have hit Huawei hard and the company has warned that it will see "serious challenges" in 2022 amid "politicisation of technology", and further "deglobalisation". The Chinese conglomera...
Here’s how Huawei hopes to bridge the U.S. trade ban
According to Bloomberg, Huawei plans to produce and sell its smartphone designs in the United States under the banner of partners. This would allow the smartphone giant -- which was banned from doing business with U.S. companies in 2019 -- to resume activity in the region.
The plan is twofold. F...
Huawei is selling its server x86 business as chips run dry
Huawei is going to sell its x86 server business, after US sanctions left it unable to acquire the chips needed to build the equipment, according to a Bloomberg report. Negotiations with possible bidders continue, with a newswire report saying that the buyer may be a consortium that includes a gover...
Ericsson will cut back on China operations after Huawei retaliation
Swedish multinational networking and telecommunications company Ericsson announced to reduce operations in China after experiencing a significant sales drop in one of its biggest markets because of retaliation related to Sweden's ban on the Chinese giant Huawei preventing it from selling 5G gear in...
Huawei CEO wants to attract foreign talent to work on 6G in Shanghai campus
Ren Zhengfei, the founder and CEO of Huawei, said at an internal company meeting that Huawei must focus early on 6G to avoid being restrained by patents. Huawei will seek the international talent required to achieve the future of networks. The company is setting up an international oriented campus ...
U.S. approves licenses for Huawei to buy car chips
US officials have approved license applications worth hundreds of millions of dollars for China's Huawei to buy chips for its growing auto component business. In a report citing two people familiar with the matter, it is understood that the world's largest telecommunications equipment maker is stru...
Xiaomi beats Samsung and is best-selling smartphone brand in Europe
The Chinese smartphone brand Xiaomi is fast climbing the ranks in the smartphone industry and recently overtook Apple to become the second-largest smartphone vendor globally.
According to new figures, it has also become the number one smartphone brand by the number of sales in Europe.
The num...
Huawei founder urges the company to switch to software
Ren Zhengfei, the founder and CEO of Huawei, reportedly urged the Chinese telecommunications equipment giant's staff to pivot to software in a major way, to deal with the impact of sanctions placed on it by the US. Ren believes that Huawei should focus on software production since the US will not b...
Huawei turns to the Internet of Things
A shift to IoT may help the company weather the storm of sanctions and trade wars hitting its 5G business.
U.S.-China trade tensions are driving the long-suffering Huawei to seek opportunities in other smart devices.This move, however, is also fraught with peril. In short, moving to such busines...
U.S. designates five Chinese companies as security threats
In return, China says the US has "zero credibility"
The Biden Administration has labeled five Chinese tech companies, including Huawei, as national security threats, according to Reuters. The agency designated the companies as posing a threat to national security under a 2019 law. The Trump-era ...
Smartphones hit by chip shortage, Qualcomm can’t meet demand
Chip developer Qualcomm is finding it increasingly difficult to meet the demand for its smartphone chips. With this, the prevailing chip shortages have claimed a new victim.
Suppliers of Samsung tell Reuters that the smartphone manufacturer is struggling with a shortage of processors from Qualco...