Technology companies have begun developing their own contact tracing systems to help prevent and contain the spread of the coronavirus outbreaks in their offices. The development comes in the wake of countries begining to ease lockdown measures and return to the workplace. Juniper Networks Inc plans on equipping its nearly 10,000 employees with work identification…
In the latest U.S. move that strategically targets Huawei, the U.S. government is targeting the Chinese company’s HiSilicon chip business, which is key to Chinese ambition of dominating the semiconductor sector. With the latest U.S. strategic move, Huawei is set to lose access to chip making tools. In what could be the most damaging move…
According to two officials from the U.S. Commerce Department, U.S. regulators are open to introducing changes that will plug, as what some see, a loophole in a new rule aimed at curbing the sale of global chip supplies to blacklisted China’s telecoms equipment maker Huawei Technologies Ltd. The new rule, introduced last Friday by the…
While wanring that it will take “several years” for the global airline industry to completely recover the damages caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic, the Derby, UK based company Rolls-Royce has announced 9,000 job cuts. This job cut, which is almost one fifth of its total workforce, will mainly impact the employees in its civil…
Social media giant Facebook is now coming up with a market place of its own. Christened as ‘Shop’, this will be a service that will allow users and businesses to display and sell products on its platforms, the company said on Tuesday. Shops is being positioned as a means to expand the markets for small…
On Thursday, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd stated, it has broken ground for its sixth domestic contract chip production line which will produce logic chips. The development comes in the wake of Samsung’s efforts to reduce its reliance on the volatile memory chip sector. With this move, Samsung will be taking on bigger rival Taiwan Semiconductor…
United States based electric car maker Tesla is enhancing price for the cars that comes with the “self-driving” option throughout the world. The company said that the price will be hiked by $1,000 for a start. The price “will continue to rise” as its technology improves, tweeted the company’s founder and CEO Elon Musk. But…
Kevin Mayer, the high profile head of Disney’s streaming business, is set to join TikTok, the popular short-video app that has run into controversy in the United States because of concerns over national-security and privacy issues. Mayer will not only head the app but will also be appointed as the chief operating officer of ByteDance,…
Going by the results of an early data released by Moderna Inc’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine, which was the first to be tested in the United States, the vaccine produced protective antibodies in a small group of healthy volunteers, said the biotech company. The data comes after a small study on 8 people were done in…
On Monday, as per a report from Japan’s news daily the Nikkei which cites multiple sources familiar with the matter at hand, the world’s biggest chip maker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd, has stopped taking new orders from Huawei Technologies following Washington’s move aimed at further cutting off supplies to the Chinese company. Huawei’s orders…
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