On Monday, UK’s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab stated, Britain takes U.S. concerns on China’s telecoms equipment maker Huawei Technologies very seriously. Last month, Britain allowed Huawei a limited role in building the country’s 5G mobile network, despite U.S. concerns on Huawei. “There has been market failure in terms of high trust vendors being able to…
The coronavirus outbreak in China poses a potential threat to the mobile phone industry, said Qualcomm Inc while adding that it is likely to impact its manufacturing and sales. These comments by Qualcomm, the world’s biggest supplier of “modem” chips has resulted in the tumbling of chip stocks despite signs that an industry downturn was…
According to a source with direct knowledge of the matter at hand, Taiwan’s Foxconn aims to gradually restart operations at its factories in China and could resume full production within 3 weeks. Foxconn has filed requests to reopen factories with Chinese authorities, said the source while adding that a full resumption is likely towards the…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted emergency use approval to state public health laboratories to start testing for China’s coronavirus using kits developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The approval will help speed up testing for the coronavirus, which has infected 11 people in the country as of…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has partnered with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc to develop a treatment for the coronavirus whose outbreak in China has killed hundreds of people in China alone. The drugmaker collaboration with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is the latest to join the race to develop a…
With the coronavirus pandemic continuing its run in China, Hyundai Motor stated, it plans on gradually suspending production at its South Korean factories from Tuesday. Hyundai is the first automaker to do so outside China. The coronavirus is disrupted supply chain. Other global automakers, including PSA Peugeot Citroen, Ford, Nissan, Honda Motors have suspended the…
On Monday, electric vehicle battery maker CATL stated, it has signed a battery supply agreement with U.S. electric vehicle giant Tesla. In a stock exchange filing, CATL disclosed, Tesla will determine the volume of battery purchases that it requires based on its needs, between July 2020 and June 2022. The agreement does not impose restrictions…
Zero Hedge, a financial market website has been banned from Twitter following the posting of a report which linked a Chinese scientist to the fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak in China. Late last week Zero Hedge said, it has received a notification from Twitter accusing it of violating its “rules against abuse and harassment.” The outbreak of…
On Saturday, Apple Inc stated, it has decided to shutdown all of its stores in mainland China upto February 9, over the outbreak of the coronavirus whose death toll has more than doubled to over 250 from a week ago. Apple did not immediately respond to further requests for comments.
On Friday, LG Display Co Ltd, an Apple Inc supplier offered an optimistic outlook for the year on the back of higher demand for its organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels sending its shares higher by 4%. The optmistic forecast comes in the wake of the South Korean company seeing prolonged decline in liquid crystal display…
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