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A smartphone, no matter its brand, is as good as the apps in it. Without apps, the gadget is useless. Hence, when President Donald Trump signed an executive order last Thursday to ban yet another Chinese app – WeChat – in the U.S., all hell broke loose. Trump, desperate to win the November re-election, decided […]
... written on Aug 10 2020The mask is arguably the single most sought after commodity during the current Coronavirus pandemic. The dramatic increase in demand for face masks has seen its price skyrocketed to unbelievable levels. On Amazon, a package of 20 N95 particulate respirators made by Honeywell has quintupled from US$12.40 to US$64. It is currently out of stock. […]
... written on Apr 01 2020After Thursday (Feb 27) closing bell, the Dow Jones lost a jaw-dropping 1,190.9 points – the biggest in history. It was also the second day in the same week the index shed more than 1,000 points. On Monday, it had already plunged 1,031 points, before losing 879 points again the next day. Thursday also saw […]
... written on Feb 28 2020As part of the ongoing trade war with China, Donald Trump thought it would be a great idea to start a tech war with the Chinese as well. It would put tremendous pressure on President Xi Jinping to negotiate and surrender to the terms to be dictated by the United States. The target – Huawei […]
... written on Dec 04 2019Made-in-China products were said to be of inferior quality. The Chinese goods were poorly manufactured because the Chinese businessmen have poor business ethics. Any products made in China were viewed as junks, fit only to be consumed by consumers from the third world countries who could not afford high quality goods. The perception was […]
... written on Nov 27 2019The holiday season may have already started to some parents and their kids. Naturally, gadgets would be on the top of “items to bring” list. Those devices, however, are the beasts which are forever hungry for power. Everyone seems to bring along a pack or two of power banks nowadays. But even such power banks, […]
... written on Nov 23 2019Apple removed a popular app from its App Store on Thursday (Oct 10), after repeatedly flip-flopped on whether to allow the app to be used by Hong Kong protesters. At first, the iPhone maker rejected the app earlier this month, only to make a U-turn and made it available for download a few days later, before ultimately […]
... written on Oct 11 2019A campaign to boycott non-Muslim products, believed to have been quietly unleashed by opposition UMNO Malay nationalist and PAS Islamist parties has spread like wildfire, at least on social media. On the surface, it certainly looks like a declaration of war against the minorities in the country, especially ethnic Chinese whose prowess in the business […]
... written on Sep 04 2019He was supposed to have died in 2011. At the age of 56, some 8 years after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, Steve Jobs’s death was mourned by the entire world. The co-founder of Apple Computer Inc. was kicked out of his own company in 1985, only to return to Apple in 1996 after his […]
... written on Aug 27 2019Whenever Donald Trump talks to his supporters, he would claim credit in his trade war with China. He repeatedly declared that his import tariffs on Chinese goods would force China to pay “US$100 billion” to the U.S. Treasury. The Chinese, not the Americans, was footing the bill for the tariffs he introduced to punish China, […]
... written on Aug 21 2019
