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In January, South Korea’s semiconductor inventory increased at its quickest rate in in 27 years. Highlighting a protracted tech recession that is holding back...

Amid widespread deployment of facial recognition systems for tightened security, a recent study of the US government showed that this AI (Artificial Intelligence)-based technology can actually produce...

Kejuruteraan Asastera Bhd (KAB) , a Malaysian mechanical engineering company. Signed an agreement with Janakuasa Pte., Ltd. to enter the renewable energy market in...

Based on the latest estimates of eMarketer, Pinterest ended 2019 with a boom in the number of its users that totaled to 82.4 million.  The market tracker...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida USA: SpaceX launched three rich businessmen and their astronaut escorts to the International Space Station on Friday. For more than a...

The telecommunications giants will create synergies within the association, from cost savings to future financial flexibility. Axiata Group Bhd, Telenor Asia Pte Ltd and...

Televisions will no longer just be viewing appliances as TV manufacturing giants showcased super high definition models that can serve as hubs to control...

The semiconductor chip shortage is putting the brakes on automakers. Due to chip shortage, automakers industries are not able to complete the needs of...

Japanese gaming giant Nintendo has confirmed feeling the heat of the novel coronavirus as it disrupts the production and deliveries of some of its...

Japanese auto giant Toyota has recently invested $394 million into the “flying taxi” of Joby Aviation—a Californian-based aerospace company.  Toyota is set to manufacture a...

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has launched a massive investigation into eCommerce giants Amazon and Flipkart who were allegedly involved in unethical anti-competitive...

LONDON UK: U.S. chipmaker Intel unveiled plans on Tuesday to invest up to 80 billion euros ($88 billion) across Europe. As part of an...

Petaling Jaya: Luno, a cryptocurrency exchange based in Malaysia, has accumulated approx US$1bil(RM4.2bil) in total transactions so far this year. In 2020, Luno Malaysia...

Social media site Facebook announced that it would stick on its policy allowing political ads on its platform despite criticisms that politicians only use...

KUALA LUMPUR: Following the Ministry of International Trade and Industry’s (Miti) approval of Tesla’s application to import battery electric vehicles (BEVs) into Malaysia. The...

Amazon is known as the king of e-commerce. It offers great potential for international trade through its online selling stores. Many countries (102) are...

The world’s largest carmaker, Volkswagen, disclosed that it will spend a sum of $34.69 billion equivalent to 31.3 billion euros to pay fines and...

The demand for mobile games has surged as millions of people in China are quarantined and stuck indoors amid fears of the spreading coronavirus that has now claimed more than 3,000 lives. Application analysts reported that the global mobile game downloads jumped to 39% for the month of February. The mainland accounted for a huge […]

TAIPEI: According to a Taiwanese economic official recent US efforts to lessen reliance on Taiwan’s cutting-edge technology may have an effect on Taiwan’s chip...

Jiuzhang, a quantum computing device developed by scientists in China, has achieved a significant breakthrough in the field of artificial intelligence. According to researchers,...

Kuala Lumpur: SEA ltd and Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) are one of the organizations intending to offer an advanced digital banking license in Malaysia....

From merely catching up with the United States in the past, President Vladimir Putin of Russia claims that their country is now the world leader on...

Investors across the globe can now expect a "fair and reciprocal trade" said US President Donald Trump as his country’s deal with China finally got...

Facebook’s Global Policy Management President Monika Bickert said they have removed modified images and videos that were intended to deceive millions of users. She said...

Toyota Motor Corporation, a Japan-based multinational automotive manufacturer, recently shared the good news of transforming a 175-acre former car factory into a “Prototype City of...

US-based smart home technology company Wyze Labs Inc. has confirmed the leakage of databases of its millions of customers. The leak was first reported by Twelve Security, a...

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia and Singapore have escalated their more drawn-out term. Situating as regional hubs for green and maintainable finance. Making the giving of...

On Monday, a formal safety probe has been opened against Tesla's auto driver system by the U.S. auto safety regulators. A number of crashes...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization have recently confirmed that the initial alert about the virus outbreak came from Canada’s “BluDot.” It is an AI-powered health monitoring platform that uses a sophisticated disease surveillance program to polish news in 65 languages, said Fox Business News. Health officials explained that […]

The popular weather predicting app Dark Sky announced in a blog post on Tuesday that it has been acquired by Apple, noting that it...

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia is trying its best to reduce the backlog of orders in the semiconductor industry over the past 12 months following the...

Microsoft was delighted to announce that it had taken control over 50 websites that were operated by a hack group in North Korea. This after the American technology...

TCL communications announced that it will stop the production of BlackBerry devices beginning this August as the licensing agreement officially ends. In 2016, the Chinese...

Billions of people around the world have been raising concerns over the limitations of internet speed, connectivity and capacity amid the coronavirus pandemic. The growing...

IJM Corp Bhd has agreed to sell all 56.2% of the shares of the IJM Plantation subsidiary KLK Bhd for RM1.53 billion in cash...

Tesla Inc. has confirmed entering into agreements with Chinese lenders for a secured term loan facility of up to 9 billion yuan ($1.29 billion)...

With more and more schools worldwide being shut as part of the governments’ efforts to contain the coronavirus, the Western game Minecraft is offering...

KUALA LUMPUR: To create a hybrid cloud 5G core network, Telekom Malaysia Bhd (TM) and ZTE (M) Corp Sdn Bhd have partnered. TM and...

The Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, hopes to address the issue of whether to exclude Huawei as a supplier of the country’s 5G wireless equipment. Merkel...

Japan has ceased a US $ 338 million deal for a semiconductor research project. To develop advanced technology in the country with Taiwan Semiconductor...

PETALING JAYA: The Semiconductor Equipment Manufacturers Industry, based in the US. Predicts that global sales of all semiconductor manufacturing equipment by original equipment manufacturers...

PKNS Real Estate Sdn Bhd (Prec) and MBSB Bank Bhd (MBSB) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to work together. To promote cashless...

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) stole the limelight in the technology sector this week as it unveiled its first half-humanoid robot that is intended to travel space in December. Claimed to have the ability to operate as a companion, the robot was named Vyom Mitra which translates from two Sanskrit words— Vyom means Sky or […]

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and LG Innotek have separately announced the temporary closure of their manufacturing plants in South Korea after workers tested positive for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-2019). In a company statement, Samsung said that it’s Gumi factory will be closed until Sunday evening as they take all necessary measures, including disinfection, after […]

Amazon announced it has closed its acquisition of Hollywood studio MGM. Two days after European regulators said the deal “would not significantly reduce competition”...

BRUSSELS: The European Union and the United States made a breakthrough in their years-long battle over the privacy of data. That flows across the...

United States’ technology giant Apple has agreed to pay up to half a billion dollars to settle litigation claiming that it slowed down old models of iPhones to compel users to upgrade. Based on reports, Apple is required by the US District court to pay consumers an amount of $25 per affected device, totaling to […]

Apple has been given the green light to open its first Indian store by 2021 after it received a special approval from the Government of India. The tech giant’s CEO, Tim Cook, personally made this announcement during the annual shareholders’ meeting, noting that Indian officials allowed the company to expand in their country even without […]

BERLIN Germany: The German government unveiled a major package of reforms. To boost the production of renewable power, and meet its climate goals. And...

Chinese technology giant Huawei loss its legal challenge of the constitutionality of a US law that restricts federal agencies from purchasing its products. A US judge...

Despite the Biden government's call for the closure of domestic semiconductor manufacturing. GlobalFoundries Inc will build a US$4 billion (RM16.4 billion) chip factory in...

Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said that he is searching for a site in the central United States that could serve as...

The Government of the United Kingdom downgraded Deputy Chair Lord Berkeley’s claims that the development of the High Speed 2 (HS2) project has an...

BRITAIN: On Monday, Britain, and Singapore will begin negotiations on another computerized economic deal. That could eliminate boundaries, a piece of London's effort to...

Kuala Lumpur: Tech giant Ericsson, selected by Digital Nasional Bhd (DNB) to deploy its fifth-generation (5G) national network. Believes that critical network infrastructure is...

A cyberattack targeting a satellite network used by Ukraine’s government and military agencies shortly after Russia’s invasion also knocked offline tens of thousands of...

Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC Pte Ltd acquired a 16% stake in Sunway Healthcare Holdings Pte Ltd (SHH) for RM750 million. In a statement...

Singapore: Singapore and Vietnam have given their consents to speed up the formation process. For joint working gatherings to foster reciprocal arrangements on the...

TOKYO: IBM Corp. claims that it is collaborating with Rapidus a recently established chipmaker sponsored by the Japanese government. To assist it to produce...

The Tokyo-based multinational technology company, SoftBank Corp., has joined the ultra-fast 5G race in Japan as it officially launched its wireless offerings last week. It...

Hyundai Motor Company is set to produce flying cars for ride-hailing giant Uber as part of the latter’s aim to provide air taxis by...

TAIPEI, Taiwan: Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey on Thursday hailed economic and educational cooperation with Taiwan. Marked by a $12 billion investment in his state...

SINGAPORE: Local bank stocks fell when the market started yesterday morning. Due to concerns that the crisis enveloping Switzerland’s second-largest bank and a succession...

BOSTON: Long before waging war on Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin was working to make Russia’s internet a powerful tool of surveillance and social control...

China’s telecommunication giant Huawei will only get a “limited role” in the United Kingdom’s future 5G network following the recommendation of British government officials. The lawmakers proposed the exclusion of Huawei from the sensitive and data-heavy “core” part of the fifth generation and it will also be blocked from government systems. This was decided in […]

Once again Ministry of Finance, Malaysia is quite popular lately by the decision of Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz - Finance Minister(MoF), he...

SAN FRANCISCO: The failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) has exposed differences within the typically close-knit venture capital (VC) industry. With some investors blaming...

MOSCOW: The head of Russia’s space program said that the future of the International Space Station hangs in the balance. After the United States,...

Japanese auto giant Mitsubishi Motors Corp defended that it had not committed fraud and used illegal defeat devices in its diesel engines. This after German...

The Middle East’s messaging application called “Totok” is again available for download at the Google Play Store following the denial of spying accusations against...

SEOUL: SK Hynix Inc, the world's second-largest memory chip maker, said it will invest 15 trillion won ($10.9 billion) over the next five years...