Industry Keyword: supply chain
Online Marketplaces
Third Point sees more value in Amazon, likes some ‘old’ tech stocks
Hedge fund Third Point LLC said it added new positions and bulked up on names it already owned when markets sold off earlier this year and said that Amazon is at an "inflection point"...
Technology Platforms
Chinese data law adds to global shipping disruption
Ships in Chinese waters are disappearing from tracking systems following the introduction of a new data law in China, frustrating efforts to ease bottlenecks that are snarling the global economy, according to three shipping...
Mobile & Infrastructure
How Apple is gaining smartphone customers during a chip shortage
Apple Inc is eating into its rivals' smartphone market share as the iPhone maker navigates through a global chip crunch better than other mobile phone makers, according to data providers.
Higher iPhone shipments helped Apple...
Online Marketplaces
Amazon’s holiday forecast disappoints as labour, supply issues mount
Amazon.com Inc has reported a slump in profit that it expects will continue through the holiday quarter, as higher wages and spending to attract workers diminish the company's windfall from online shopping.
Shares in the...
App Stores
Microsoft nearly overtakes Apple as most valuable company
A surge in Microsoft Corp's shares nearly unseated Apple Inc as the world's most valuable company yesterday, a day before the iPhone maker reports its quarterly results.
Fuelled by strong quarterly growth in its Azure...
Communication & Collaboration
Microsoft sees cloud business growth, but supply woes continue for Xbox
Microsoft has forecast a strong end to the calendar year thanks to its booming cloud business but said supply chain woes will continue to dog key units such as those producing its Surface laptops...
Mobile & Infrastructure
Chairman of Huawei says it’s supply chain has been attacked
Huawei Technologies will do whatever it can to strengthen its supply chain which has already been "attacked", its own rotating Chairman Guo Ping has stated.
Guo was talking on Wednesday at the Chinese smartphone and...
Mobile & Infrastructure
US government sanctions to slam Huawei and further roil tech supply
The ramping of US restrictions on Huawei are likely to cut off the smartphone maker's access to even off-the-shelf chips and disrupt the global technology supply chain once more, executives and experts have cautioned.
The...
Mobile & Infrastructure
US letter to companies gives little clarity on new Huawei curb, lawyers say
The administration of President Donald J Trump has sent new guidance to companies struggling to understand the scope of a measure unveiled last month that aims to crack down on chip sales to China's...
Mobile & Infrastructure
China hits back at US telecom supply chain order at World Trade Organisation
China has accused the US of undermining the global tech industry's supply chains with a renewed executive order barring American companies from using telecoms equipment made by firms deemed to pose a national security...