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Jing Cao

ARTICLES BY JING CAO

Six of the students told the ‘Financial Times’ they routinely worked 11-hour days assembling Apple’s flagship smartphone at the Foxconn plant, which constitutes illegal overtime for student interns under Chinese law. Photo: Reuters

Apple IPhone X built with illegal overtime teen labour: Report

2 min read . 21 Nov 2017

Apple employees greet customers entering the store during the sales launch for iPhone X in San Francisco, on Friday. Photo: Bloomberg

$1,000 price doesn’t deter Apple iPhone X fans in long lines

4 min read . 04 Nov 2017

Berkshire started building its IBM stake in 2011, eventually becoming the firm’s largest shareholder, with an investment valued at almost $13 billion. Photo: Bloomberg

Buffett loses confidence in IMB, sells a third of Berkshire’s holding: reports

1 min read . 05 May 2017

Panos Panay, corporate vice president of Microsoft Corp. Surface, unveils the new Surface laptop computer with Intel CORE i7 processor on 2 May 2017. Photo: Bloomberg

Microsoft launches $999 laptop in hardware push to college students

1 min read . 02 May 2017

Alphabet Inc.’s Google told some of its workers on Monday not to worry about the changes in H1B visa norms, saying its software engineering roles don’t fall into the job categories included in the administration’s new guidance. Photo: AFP

H1B visa revamp poised to benefit big US tech companies, punish outsourcers

3 min read . 05 Apr 2017

IBM chief executive officer (CEO) Ginni Rometty. Photo: Reuters

IBM touts Donald Trump-pleasing hiring plans while firing thousands

5 min read . 23 Jan 2017

Fitbit, the market leader for wearables, is struggling to maintain its top spot, facing slowing demand and heavier competition from Apple on the premium end as well as cheaper knockoffs. Photo: AP

Fitbit gains most in three months after app tops Apple chart

1 min read . 28 Dec 2016

Over the past few years, IBM— like many large US-based companies—has been criticized for eliminating thousands of jobs in the country and moving resources to places such as India. Photo: Reuters

IBM plans to hire 25,000 in US ahead of Trump meeting with industry leaders

3 min read . 14 Dec 2016

The Amazon Go grocery store with automated checkout will open to the public next year in Seattle. Photo: Reuters

Checkouts to become history at Amazon Go

3 min read . 07 Dec 2016

The goal of the new partnership for both companies is to use AI to quickly provide insights from the huge data sets collected by the messaging system, yet require a lot of processing power to analyse. Photo: Reuters

IBM teams up with Slack to build smarter data-crunching chatbots

3 min read . 27 Oct 2016

The grocery stores represent Amazon’s latest move to disrupt brick-and-mortar food shopping that’s still dominated by traditional retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores. Photo: AFP

Amazon to build convenience stores: report

1 min read . 11 Oct 2016

Samsung has now asked retailers to stop selling all Galaxy Note 7 phones while the company and US officials investigate why the new batch of devices seem to be afflicted with the same problem. Photo: Reuters

Why Samsung’s crisis with Galaxy Note 7 is an opportunity for Apple, Google

3 min read . 11 Oct 2016

Intel has been suffering from a global slide in demand for PCs as people prefer their tablets or mobile phones and businesses do more in the cloud

Intel raises revenue forecast on signs of PC market rebound

1 min read . 16 Sept 2016

Apigee acquisition will help support Google’s own set of APIs, which include ones that allow developers to pull information from YouTube as well as the Translate and Maps software to imbed in their own apps. Photo: Bloomberg

Google acquires Apigee in $625 million deal to expand enterprise

1 min read . 08 Sept 2016

Nintendo shares in Tokyo jumped as much as 18% to ¥29,200 in early trading, following a 29% jump in the company’s American depositary receipts in New York. Photo: AP

Nintendo shares soar 18% with Super Mario game debut for Apple iPhone 7

3 min read . 08 Sept 2016

Apollo Global Management Llc will buy San Antonio-based Rackspace for $32 a share in an all-cash transaction.

Apollo agrees to buy cloud seller Rackspace for $4.3 billion

1 min read . 26 Aug 2016

Most VR headsets use some sort of head movements to navigate. These techniques are far from ideal because they require a lot of moving around that gets tiring and industry heavyweights agree that some form of eye-based technology is key to improving and popularizing VR technology. Photo: AP

LeapPad inventor wants to turn your eyes into a mouse

6 min read . 26 Aug 2016

Photo: Bloomberg

Samsung unveils iris-reading Note 7 to keep Apple at bay

3 min read . 02 Aug 2016

Nintendo Co.’s Pokemon Go is displayed on a smartphone in Tokyo, Japan. Photo: Akio Kon/Bloomberg

Game makers everywhere are hungrily eyeing Pokemon Go phenomenon

3 min read . 12 Jul 2016

Nasa holds the competition to crowdsource ideas from robot geeks ranging from high school and college students to retired couples and families of diverse backgrounds. Photo: Bloomberg

Nasa will pay you $1.5 million to build the next rover

2 min read . 02 Jul 2016