The U.S. government is urging allied nations to avoid using telecommunications equipment from China’s Huawei Technologies Company, even though some of those countries have already made large purchases of Huawei equipment, according to a report published Friday.
A young Silicon Valley firm called CNEX Labs is suing China’s giant Huawei telecom company for stealing its technology, specifically solid-state drive (SSD) technology used for mass information storage.
A Malaysian CEO was killed after his mobile phone allegedly exploded while charging, according to a report.
Tensions between the masters of the universe at Facebook and United States lawmakers continue to mount, as the company confirms that it actually did share user data with Chinese phone manufacturer Huawei.
Congress is currently looking into Google’s partnership with Chinese company Huawei, which has been identified as a security risk by six intelligence agencies, according to a report.
The Facebook CEO faces mounting questions over whether his statements to Congress in April were accurate.
Sen. Tom Cotton has warned that Huawei is “essentially an arm of the Chinese government.”
The Defense Department announced on Wednesday it has banned the sale of smartphones made by the Chinese corporations Huawei and ZTE on U.S. military bases, describing them as an “unacceptable risk to the Department’s personnel, information, and mission.”
