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Ericsson Profit Beats as More Countries Rollout 5G

Sweden’s Ericsson on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter core earnings above market estimates, helped by higher sales of telecom gear as more countries roll out 5G networks offsetting a loss of market share in mainland China. The company’s quarterly adjusted operating earnings rose to 11.9 billion Swedish crowns ($1.28 billion) from 11 billion a year ago, beating […]

Africa to Ride the Wave of Digital Transformation

The rising level of technological innovations has finally reached Africa, bringing to the table a new wave of modernization to a continent that was once overlooked by some of the biggest companies worldwide. One thing the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted – and proceeds to linger – is the technological rage that came with it, as it […]

Tesla opens showroom in China’s Xinjiang region

In a region fraught with controversy, Tesla has opened a new dealership in China, Xinjiang, the same area where the Chinese government was accused of human rights violations against the Uyghur Muslim minority.  This move strangely comes just after U.S president Joe Biden signed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act to protect said minority from […]

China pursues tech 'self-reliance,' fueling global unease

To help make China a self-reliant “technology superpower,” the ruling Communist Party is pushing the world’s biggest e-commerce company to take on the tricky, expensive business of designing its own processor chips — a business unlike anything Alibaba Group has done before. Its 3-year-old chip unit, T-Head, unveiled its third processor in October, the Yitian […]

The U.S. develops new software to foresee Chinese reaction

U.S. military officers in the Pacific region developed a software tool to accurately forecast Beijing’s responses towards Washington’s plans in the Indo-Pacific province, including military activity supported by the U.S. During her visit to the United States Indo-Pacific Command in Huawei on Tuesday, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks was informed of the latest military […]

Brazil's awaited 5G tender yields billions in investment

Brazil held its much-anticipated auction for build-out of the nation’s fifth-generation wireless network on Thursday, with the open question of whether China’s Huawei telecommunications company will be involved. The technology promises faster speeds, less lag when connecting to the network and the ability to connect more devices to the internet. But the ambitious auction also […]

EXPLAINER: Why are foreign tech firms pulling out of China?

Yahoo Inc. is leaving the China market, suspending its services there as of Monday amid what it says is an “increasingly challenging” business and legal environment. Foreign technology firms have been pulling out or downsizing their operations in mainland China as a strict data privacy law specifying how companies collect and store data takes effect. […]

US puts new controls on Israeli spyware company NSO Group

The Biden administration announced Wednesday it is putting new export limits on Israel’s NSO Group, the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire company, saying its tools have been used to “conduct transnational repression.” The company, whose spyware researchers say has been used around the world to break into the phones of human rights activists, journalists, and even […]

Yahoo pulls out of China, citing 'challenging' environment

Yahoo Inc. said Tuesday it has pulled out of China, citing an increasingly challenging operating environment. The withdrawal was largely symbolic, as many of the company’s services were already blocked by China’s digital censorship. But recent government moves to expand its control over tech companies generally, including its domestic giants, may have tipped the scales […]

Rural telcos fear ramifications of China-US trade war

Numerous U.S.-based Internet Service Providers (ISP) are set to obtain on October 29 reimbursements from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), welcoming a filing opportunity to “rip and replace” Huawei and ZTE telecom equipment.  Bloomberg revealed a $1.9 billion program allowing ISPs to deliver cost estimates to the FCC to substitute previously installed equipment by Chinese manufacturers Huawei and ZTE between October […]