Prices of Huawei phones rising every hour on fears on shortages

Chinese consumers are rushing to purchase Huawei’s smartphone featuring its high-end Kirin chips, fearing that the company’s production of its premium handsets will face punitive curbs by U.S. trade action. According to Huaqiangbei, smartphone vendors in China’s southern city of Shenzhen, are seeing a steady rise in the prices of used and new Huawei phones…

European Court of Justice to rule on privacy safeguards for EU citizen

Many large U.S. tech companies routinely transfer private EU citizen’s data without sufficient protection from U.S. mass surveillance. On Tuesday, in a case which has significant implication for many big companies, Ireland’s High Court stated it would ask EU’s top court to rule on the way in which internet companies, including Facebook, Apple and Google,…