The American news agency Bloomberg has promoted one of the two journalists who wrote a story last year claiming that claiming that Chinese spies had corrupted the tech supply chain and installed small chips on motherboards which were supplied to the American company, Supermicro Computer. The story has been met with a storm of denial since it was published nearly a year ago, but has not been either corrected or retracted.

Retail giant Amazon has been allegedly doing what the European Union fined search behemoth Google for – giving prominence to shopping listings that are more profitable for the company.

Amazon continues to dominate the global smart speaker market by shipping 6.6 million units of Echo smart speakers in the second quarter of 2019, and maintaining its lead over China’s Baidu - which bumped Google down to third spot in the market - the analyst firm Canalys says.