As part of a diplomatic trip to Japan, British International Trade Secretary Liz Truss spoke to NEC Chairman Nobuhiro Endo about 5G
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U.S. Judge Laurel Beeler rejected a Justice Department request Friday, which seeked to overturn a decision that allowed the Tencent backed app WeChat to stay on App Stores in the country.
The Italian government has blocked an agreement between Huawei and telecommunications group Fastweb, where Huawei would be supplying equipment for its 5G core network.
Oracle and Walmart have agreed to acquire a 20% stake in TikTok’s global business as part of a pre-IPO financing round. Oracle will be owning about a 12.5 percent stake in the company while Walmart CEO Doug McMillon will join the company’s board.
China has implemented its “unreliable entities list” in retaliation against the U.S., which has used its own “entity list” to shut Huawei out of the U.S. market, while also attacking TikTok and WeChat.
The U.S. Department of Commerce announced Friday morning that downloads of video app TikTok and messaging app WeChat will be banned in the U.S. from Sunday (Sept 20). If a deal is not struck by 12 November, the app will be fully banned, and using as well as downloading the app will be illegal.
TikTok owner ByteDance has rejected the bid from Microsoft for its U.S. operations. A deadline for TikTok to sell its U.S. operations or shut them down is arriving on Tuesday.
Sliced Tech has partnered with BlackBerry in Australia to host its secure communications portfolio, SecuSuite for Government. The partnership allows BlackBerry to offer a locally-hosted managed service to Australian government agencies and address data sovereignty concerns.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on August 6 that would ban the TikTok app from the U.S by mid-September. TikTok has now officially filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government, saying the order violates due process and exceeds the scope of sanction rules.
The Trump administration is further tightening restrictions on China's Huawei, seeking to starve it of crucial components by cutting off all access to U.S. technology.
In the United States, President Trump has issued an executive order looking to force China's ByteDance to divest its U.S. operations in TikTok within 90 days, in another twist to his never-ending feud with China.
Qualcomm is reportedly asking the United States government to let the semiconductor outfit sell its Snapdragon processors to Huawei, which would then be placed into 5G-capable handsets.
