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Warren Buffett’s announcement comes just days after Apple reported quarterly sales and profit that topped analyst estimates. Photo: Reuters

Warren Buffett buys a further 75 million Apple shares: Report

1 min read . 04 May 2018

Apple has been criticized for years over its supply chain, a collection of hundreds of companies making components and assembling iPhones, iPads and MacBooks. Photo: Reuters

Apple push to clean up supply chain gained momentum in 2017

1 min read . 08 Mar 2018

Apple move to unveil a 6.5 inch iPhone is aimed in part at emerging markets such as India and China, markets where its biggest rival Samsung is a major player. Photo: Bloomberg

Why Apple is going bigger on bigger iPhone screens

3 min read . 27 Feb 2018

Uber faces investigation by regulators after disclosing earlier this week that it hid for more than a year the hacking of a vast amount of personal data from 57 million drivers and customers. Photo: AP

Uber says it disclosed breach to SoftBank before going public

1 min read . 24 Nov 2017

Didi’s $5.5 billion funding last month was the latest to be backed by SoftBank as he seeks to find his next Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, an investment that has delivered a paper profit of about $85 billion. Photo: Reuters

SoftBank unit invested $2 billion in Didi’s record funding round

1 min read . 09 May 2017

InvenSense makes gyroscopes, which track motion and rotation in 3D space.

TDK agrees to buy InvenSense for about $1.3 billion in cash

1 min read . 21 Dec 2016

Customers can rent replacement phones until Note 7’s with new batteries become available on 19 September. It wasn’t clear whether the fixed Note 7 models would also be offered elsewhere on that date. Photo: Reuters

Samsung drops after warning to stop using Galaxy Note 7 smartphones

4 min read . 13 Sep 2016

KuangChi Science’s main product is the Cloud, a network of balloons that provides Internet access and data analysis much like Google’s Project Loon, or surveillance for government agencies.

Chinese space-age tech outfit KuangChi Science embarks on global shopping spree

2 min read . 09 Sep 2016

The nation’s wireless carriers announced plans last year to create China Tower by pooling assets and reducing duplication. Photo: Aly Song / Reuters

China telecom industry restructure pushes China Mobile up

2 min read . 15 Oct 2015

Lenovo is making a greater push into new devices as a way to bolster PC and smartphone businesses that compete with Apple and Samsung Electronics. Photo: Bloomberg

Chocolate Printer, Mood Shoes among Lenovo’s connected devices

1 min read . 28 May 2015

The device will have transparent or translucent lenses, include earphones for listening to calls or music, and has been registered as sports spectacles, according to documents posted on the Korea Intellectual Property Rights Information Service website. Photo: Reuters

Samsung pursuing glasses that answer calls in Google challenge

1 min read . 24 Oct 2013

In 1980, Nintendo released Game & Watch, the world’s first hand-held game player. Next came the release of Famicom, or the Family Computer console, in 1983, a home video-game console system. Photo: AP (AP)

Hiroshi Yamauchi, who ran Nintendo for 53 years, dies at age 85

1 min read . 19 Sep 2013

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