Huawei

Honor was sold off in December as U.S. sanctions on Huawei crippled the company’s smartphone sales. Spinning off Honor was seen as a way of saving the brand.

Huawei, the Chinese tech giant, paid veteran Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta $500,000 to lobby the White House during the third quarter.

Huawei spun off Honor to ensure the brand’s survival after U.S. sanctions on the Chinese tech giant cut off key chip supplies and crippled its smartphone business.

China, the U.S. and Canada completed a high-stakes prisoner swap Saturday with joyous homecomings for two Canadians held by China and for an executive of Chinese global communications giant Huawei Technologies charged with fraud, potentially bringing closure to a 3-year feud that embroiled the three countries.

Under the Trump administration, Huawei was put on an export blacklist and cut off from key semiconductors required for its smartphones.

Huawei on Thursday launched its new P50 and P50 Pro smartphones without support for super-fast 5G internet.

Huawei has launched HarmonyOS across several devices as it looks to wean itself off U.S. technology, a move that could pit it against Apple and Google.

“You can’t work for Huawei and then work for the Director of National Intelligence,” said Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska.

In his first 100 days as president, Joe Biden has made one thing clear — he wants to make sure the U.S. outcompetes China with technology front and center.

Huawei said its revenues fell 16.5% year-on-year to 152.2 billion Chinese yuan ($23.5 billion) in the three months ending March 31.

Huawei is boosting its efforts in areas such as cloud computing and smart cars hoping software becomes a larger part of its revenue mix in the future.

Over the past two years, Huawei has been blocked from 5G networks in some countries and faces uncertainty over future chip supply, as a result of U.S. actions.

The Xiaomi Mi Mix Fold foldable smartphone contains the Surge C1, Xiaomi’s first in-house camera chipset.

In mid-2019, Huawei launched its own operating system — HarmonyOS — in response to U.S. actions that cut it off from Google software.

The Mate X2 will be one of the first Huawei phones able to run its own HarmonyOS mobile operating system.

Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei is hoping for a softer approach from President Joe Biden after the company was labeled a national security threat under Trump.

The U.S. has spoken to lawyers for Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in recent weeks about a so-called “deferred prosecution agreement,” the Wall Street Journal reported.

The U.K. said in July that carriers would have to stop buying Huawei 5G equipment by year-end and strip out its kit from their infrastructure by 2027.

An executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei says it is running out of processor chips to make smartphones due to U.S. sanctions.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the U.S. is imposing travel bans on employees of the Chinese technology giant Huawei and other companies the U.S. determines are assisting authoritarian governments in cracking down on human rights