Josh Horwitz

China is getting serious about manufacturing’s robot revolution.

On Feb. 28, Bloomberg published a video showing Uber CEO Travis Kalanick berating an Uber driver, Fawzi Kamel, who complained to him about declining fares.

First it was the taxi-hailing wars. Then it was the on-demand service wars. Now, China’s internet industry is watching another money-burning battle unfold between rival startups. 

Samsung’s top company will be gearing up for the courtroom.

Over the past three years, Hong Kong has turned into an unexpected hub for the world’s best-known electric car. Right along with neon signs and skyscrapers, Tesla vehicles define the urban landscape and fill the streets of the central business district.

Malaysian authorities are slowly getting to the bottom of the death of Kim Jong-nam.

Hong Kong just witnessed its former leader walking out of a courthouse in handcuffs.

China’s has a new target amid its ongoing economic retaliation against South Korea—the country’s fifth-biggest conglomerate.

Surveillance footage obtained and released by Japan’s Fuji TV purportedly shows a woman attacking and killing Kim Jong-nam. The elder half-brother of Korean dictator Kim Jong-un was murdered in Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Feb. 13.

Those clamoring to #DeleteUber will have one more reason to do so.

The second time’s the charm for Korean prosecutors looking to bag the country’s most important businessman.

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Chinese students are joining their peers on American campuses and getting woke. Their cause? Defending the official line of the Communist Party.

Bill Gates is joining the ranks of Mark Zuckerberg and Arabella Trump as another American public figure eager to show off their Chinese skills.

An Apple representative traveled to Beijing this week to discuss iPhone battery malfunctions with a consumer watchdog organization affiliated with the government. The meeting, held yesterday, shows that as Beijing ramps up scrutiny of Apple, the tech company continues to try and appease the government.

Netflix has Stranger Things, and Amazon has Mozart in the Jungle. But the next binge-worthy television series might come from Facebook.

Apple took a beating in China last year.

Nearly 100 American companies have filed an amicus brief expressing their opposition to an executive order by US president Donald Trump that places immigration restrictions on citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries. They filed the letter late Sunday (Feb. 5) to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is currently weighing an appeal from the Trump administration after a ruling by a federal judge in Seattle ordered a national halt to the travel restrictions. (A US appellate court has already refused to immediately reinstate them.)

Hugo Barra is ditching Zhongguancun for 1 Hacker Way.

China’s Great Firewall just got greater.

If you only read the headlines, you’d think Samsung Electronics was in dire straits. The company suffered the disastrous recall (and eventual discontinuation) of its Galaxy Note 7, effectively wiping out an entire line of flagship smartphones. Its de facto leader, Lee Jae-yong, is embroiled in a national corruption scandal involving allegations of bribing the Korean president’s personal spiritual guru.

Xiaomi’s star hire is gone.

Samsung would like you to believe that engineering—not mismanagement—were what caused its phones to explode.

On Jan. 16, South Korean prosecutors announced they were seeking an arrest warrant for Lee Jae-yong, the de facto head of Samsung. Today (Jan. 19), the court said it would not approve the prosecutors’ request, but prosecutors will still continue with an investigation into his alleged crimes.