China has reportedly urged the US to reconsider its ban on telecommunications vendor ZTE during crunch trade talks between the global superpowers in Beijing. The US has imposed a seven year ban on American companies from selling services and equipment to the Chinese vendor after it claimed ZTE had failed to comply with its trade rules.

Read more: China pleads with US to reconsider ZTE ban

Internet of Things investment will support Lebanon's IT market growing to LBP 820 billion by 2019, and will transform daily lives and businesses, industry experts announced during the recent SmartEx Lebanon exhibition.

Read more: Study claims investment in IoT will generate billions for Lebanon IT market

Huawei Consumer Business Group announced that the Huawei P20 Pro has become one of its bestselling smartphone devices in the UAE for 2018. After only one week of being on public pre-booking, the Huawei P20 Pro has overtaken last year's Huawei P10 Plus, outselling its predecessor by three times on the first sale day to become the most successful Huawei P series ever sold by Huawei in the UAE.

Read more: Huawei smartphone sets new record in the UAE

Finnish telecommunications vendor Nokia has endured a difficult Q1 following the official announcement of its financial results for the first quarter of 2018. However, despite a drop in its net sales and profitability, Nokia CEO, Rajeev Suri remains bullish.

Read more: Nokia suffers challenging Q1 but CEO remains bullish over 5G

Ericsson and the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology have teamed up to explore and develop industrial applications of 5G. The first use case for production of jet engine components for MTU Aero Engines is currently being evaluated and is presented this week (April 23-27) at the Hanover Fair in Germany.

Read more: Ericsson partners with research institute to test industrial applications of 5G

Chinese telecommunications vendor ZTE has vowed to protect its company and its employees and declared it would utilize all the tools at his disposal to ensure it continues to serve its operators, partners and suppliers despite the export ban issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Read more: ZTE vows to fulfill needs of operators and partners despite US ban

Qualcomm Incorporated announced that Qualcomm and NXP Semiconductors (NXPI) at the request of the Ministry of Commerce in China (MOFCOM) have withdrawn and refiled the notice of acquisition regarding the companies' planned combination.

Read more: Qualcomm and NXP withdraw and refile application for Chinese regulatory approval

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