Reuters: Technology News

• Trial begins in U.S. states' effort to block T-Mobile/Sprint deal
  U.S. state attorneys general, led by New York and California, deliver opening arguments Monday in a bid to stop T-Mobile U.S. from buying Sprint Corp in a trial that highlights disagreements between federal antitrust enforcers, who are Republican, and Democrats in powerful states.
• EU regulators to review rules defining companies' market power
  EU regulators will review two-decade old rules that determine if companies have the market power to throttle rivals or control prices to take into account globalization and digitalization, Europe's antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said on Monday.
• EU approves 3.2 billion euro state aid for battery research
  The European Commission approved on Monday 3.2 billion euros ($3.53 billion) of state aid from seven European Union countries for research and innovation in battery technology.
• South Korea jails three Samsung Electronics executives over evidence destroyed in probe of alleged fraud
  A South Korean court on Monday jailed three executives of Samsung Electronics for their role in a plot that included burying computers under factory floors at its biotech affiliate, in an investigation of alleged accounting fraud.
• Huawei to roll out Harmony OS to more products next year, but not phones and tablets
  Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies [HWT.UL] plans to equip more of its products with its Harmony operating system (OS) next year, and will promote them at home and abroad, a Huawei spokesman said on Monday.
• Global financial watchdogs take aim at Big Tech's data dominance
  Google, Alibaba and other "Big Tech" companies could be forced to share data on financial services customers with banks and financial technology firms to prevent unfair competition.
• Jeff Bezos says Amazon wants to work more with the Pentagon
  Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos said it would support the U.S. Department of Defense as technology companies vie for more defense contracts and the Pentagon seeks to modernize itself.
• Ericsson to pay over $1 billion to resolve U.S. corruption probes
  Swedish mobile telecoms company Ericsson has agreed to pay over $1 billion to resolve probes into corruption, including the bribing of government officials, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Friday.