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Apple has opened up a possible new revenue stream that could be as much as US$60 billion (A$77.6 billion) through its new privacy narrative, a main part of which is its ad-tracking technology that in the iOS 14.5 update, technology analyst outfit Counterpoint Research claims.

Despite being one of the pioneers in the mobile industry, Finnish telecommunications equipment provider Nokia has been struggling in recent years, with its mobile division being much bigger than its other divisions and the company yet to benefit from the 2016 acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent, the technology analyst firm Counterpoint Research claims.

The top 20 Asia-Pacific technology companies may face a rough time this year due to the volatile global situation and the the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the data and analytics firm GlobalData says.

Countries in the Asia Pacific region are showing keen interest in quantum computing and pledging significant investments, according to one analyst firm which says that the quest for quantum computing supremacy is set to gather momentum in the next few years.

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.

Facebook, Amazon, Google are the companies most at risk from regulatory crackdown in the advertising sector, according to the latest Thematic Scorecard for the sector from analyst firm GlobalData.

China dominated the global smart speaker market in the first quarter of 2019, with nearly 51% or 10.6 million units being shipped, following by the US which accounted for 24% of shipments or 5.0 million units, down from 44% in the final quarter of 2018, the analyst firm Canalys says.

The smart speaker market enjoyed a boom in 2018 with global shipments reaching 78.0 million units, a rise of 125% from the 34.7 million shipped in 2017, the analyst firm Canalys says.

Google's attempts to launch a censored search engine in China appear to have been put on the backburner after the company shut down a data analysis system used for building the engine.

Smart speaker shipments reached 19.7 million units in the third quarter of 2018, a rise of 137% year-on-year, the analyst firm Canalys reported, adding that this tied in with its forecast of 75 million units for the year.

Internet and smartphone use in China shows no sign of slowing down if one were to judge from a new report that says there are 772 million net users in the country out of a population of 1.4 billion.

A partnership between Baidu and Nvidia will see the Chinese Web services company applying Nvdia GPUs to provide AI in a range of products and services.

Apple sits on top of a new global ranking list as the largest IT vendor with more than US$218 billion in IT revenue — approximately $79 billion larger than the number 2 vendor, Samsung Vendor Group — according to a newly published report.

Nvidia's deep learning platform is now available as part of Baidu Cloud's deep learning service.

Apple’s iPhone 6/S/Plus is claimed to violate the design patents of Chinese device maker Shenzhen Baili (also known as Digione) which is financially backed by Chinese Internet giant Baidu. A stop sales order has been issued.

Nvidia's DGX-1 is said to be equivalent in performance to a 250-node x86 system for deep learning applications.

Researchers have found that the Chinese Baidu browser and apps based on its SDK transmit user's search terms, GPS coordinates, the addresses of websites visited and device's MAC or IMEI address to Baidu's servers without using SSL/TLS encryption or gaining the users permission.

China’s internet search giant Baidu has launched its own Android based Virtual Assistant – Duer.

At its first major global conference, Tech World in Beijing, Lenovo has launched an impressive new Thinkpad, new consumer notebooks, a new collaboration with Microsoft and more!

Lenovo is holding its first ‘Tech World’ conference on 28 May 2015 in Beijing, China, with Microsoft, Intel and Baidu CEOs to participate - Ashton Kutcher too?