U.S. waives tariffs on Japanese aluminum for Tesla battery cells
The U.S. Commerce Department has agreed to Tesla Inc’s request to waive 10 percent tariffs on imported aluminum from Japan used in the manufacture of...
Alphabet commits to data privacy in Toronto smart city master plan
A high-tech smart city project proposed along Toronto’s waterfront by Alphabet Inc unit Sidewalk Labs has pledged not to sell advertisers the personal data collected...
Dutch emergency services restored after major telecoms outage
A nationwide telecommunications outage in the Netherlands knocked police and emergency numbers offline for roughly four hours on Monday before national carrier Royal KPN NV...
Apple says it collects fee on less than 1% of Spotify users
Music streaming service Spotify Technology SA pays Apple Inc a 15% fee on about 680,000 of its 100 million premium customers, Apple disclosed in a...
Exclusive: Huawei’s U.S. research arm builds separate identity
The U.S.-based research arm of China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd – Futurewei Technologies Inc – has moved to separate its operations from its corporate parent...
Amazon’s new beauty store for professionals poses threat to beauty retailers
Amazon.com Inc on Monday unveiled its online professional beauty store to sell supplies to licensed professional stylists, barbers and estheticians, weighing on shares of other...
Lawyers for Huawei CFO urge Canada’s Justice Minister to withdraw extradition proceedings
Lawyers for Huawei’s chief executive officer Meng Wanzhou, who is being detained in Canada on U.S. fraud charges, on Monday urged Canada’s Minister of Justice...
Dutch emergency services hit by major telecoms outage
A widespread telecommunications outage hit large parts of the Netherlands on Monday, crippling emergency services and rendering police and other government services unreachable....
Google to spend further 1 billion euros to build Dutch data centers
Alphabet Inc.’s Google said on Monday it will invest an additional 1 billion euros ($1.14 billion) to build data centers in the Netherlands, including a...
Huawei: ‘No doubt’ that we will meet German 5G security standards
Huawei, the Chinese technology and telecoms group hit by U.S. sanctions, said on Monday it was confident of meeting the security requirements that Germany is...