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Tim Cook has speeded up plans for the launch of an Apple car (Photo: Reuters)

An Apple-Tesla showdown on the factory floor is in the works

3 min read . Updated: 23 Dec 2020

TikTok went viral around the world as an app popular with lip-syncing kids, but the U.S. government claims it’s a national security threat because the company collects reams of data on American citizens. (Bloomberg)

In TikTok sale, Microsoft is no loser and Oracle no winner

2 min read . Updated: 14 Sep 2020

TikTok's American makeover just look a bruising

3 min read . Updated: 27 Aug 2020

A file photo of Satya Nadella (Photo: Bloomberg)

TikTok could become Microsoft's deal of the decade

4 min read . Updated: 04 Aug 2020

RIL’s ‘phygital’ commerce may give Zuckerberg the desired foothold in India

3 min read . Updated: 23 Apr 2020

SoftBank chairman Masayoshi Son

Opinion | SoftBank's Oyo investment shows the perils of growth at any cost

3 min read . Updated: 13 Apr 2020

A file photo of Masayoshi Son, founder and CEO SoftBank (Ramesh Pathania/Mint)

Opinion | Here’s a Masayoshi Son shopping list for 2020

3 min read . Updated: 31 Dec 2019

A crop of stars is emerging to meet the needs of India’s 1.3 billion people ( Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint)

Opinion: $30 billion of proof that India's tech scene is back

2 min read . Updated: 16 Oct 2019

Japan Display being able to make lots of OLED screens is great news for Apple – as long as it doesn’t go belly-up before that happens.

Apple may pay $1 billion to keep iPhone screen edge

2 min read . Updated: 12 Jul 2019

With around 40 percent of Apple’s sales coming from the Americas last year, and 217 million iPhones sold worldwide, that means around 90 million units per year would need to be manufactured outside China to serve the U.S. market. (AP)

Opinion: Your iPhone is already made in America, not China

3 min read . Updated: 12 Jun 2019

A menu displaying icons for Huawei Technologies Co.'s App Gallery application, left, and Google LLC's Play Store application are displayed on a Huawei P20 Pro smartphone. (Bloomberg)

Opinion | The tech cold war has begun

2 min read . Updated: 20 May 2019

Opinion | Samsung can learn from Apple that boring beats sexy

2 min read . Updated: 23 Apr 2019

The new Huawei Mate X foldable phone on display ahead of the Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona. (Sergio Perez/Reuters)

Opinion | Samsung, Huawei can't be blamed for their $2,000 smartphones

2 min read . Updated: 25 Feb 2019

Graphic: Sarvesh Kumar Sharma/Mint

SoftBank without telcos means Masayoshi Son has little to offer

2 min read . Updated: 30 Apr 2018

SoftBank Vision Fund is set to turn its $2.5 billion August investment in Flipkart to about $4 billion in less than eight months. Photo: Reuters

SoftBank puts the flip in Flipkart with Walmart deal

1 min read . Updated: 23 Apr 2018

ZTE halted trading of its shares Tuesday as it prepares to explain itself to anyone who will listen.

ZTE folly will kick China’s chip plan into overdrive

2 min read . Updated: 17 Apr 2018

China’s tech titans should brace for some media humility

2 min read . Updated: 16 Apr 2018

Chinese bike-rental company Mobike may soon be gobbled up by compatriot start-up Meituan Dianping. Photo: Reuters

Bike rentals plus food delivery. It’s fusion that works

1 min read . Updated: 04 Apr 2018

Alibaba Group headquarters at Hangzhou in China’s Zhejiang province. None of Alibaba’s peers has a goodwill-to-asset ratio that comes anywhere close. Amazon stands at 10.2%, eBay at 18.4% and JD.com at a mere 3.6%. Photo: Reuters

Alibaba chock-full of goodwill might lay off those deals

1 min read . Updated: 03 Apr 2018

Tim Cook is rightfully frustrated with the perceived wisdom that the iPhone is a Chinese-made product, and Apple doesn’t get enough credit for all the work that’s done in the US. Photo: Reuters

Tim Cook’s right about US iPhones, but not for that reason

3 min read . Updated: 29 Mar 2018

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