Amazon Music offers ad-supported free music streaming service

In an effort aimed at consolidating its position in the music streaming service, Amazon.com Inc stated it has introduced an ad-supported free version of its music streaming service called Amazon Music. Incidentally, Spotify Technology, Amazon Music’s rival, has nearly 140 million users for its free version. For its paid version, Amazon Music’s plans start at…

Launch of Huawei’s 5G compatible flagship Mate 30 smartphone clouded by lack of Android as its OS

In recent years, Huawei has shot up surprising fast into the global smartphone business. A U.S. ban citing theft of intellectual property and being a threat to U.S. national security has however crippled its sales outside China. On September 18 Huawei Technologies plans to launch its new Mate 30 line of smartphones in Munich, said…

Samsung Electronics prunes production midst falling market share in China

Samsung’s Chinese rivals have increased their respective market share at Samsung’s expense. South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co Ltd stated it plans on pruning the production of its smartphones in China following a fall in market share. Domestic Chinese rivals have squeezed its share in China to less than 1%. The plan to reduce the output…