The White House is reportedly concerned that the tie-up would help a Chinese firm improve its AI abilities and also make Apple more vulnerable to Beijing's censorship and data-sharing laws

Huawei, which slumped for several years after being hit with US sanctions, has managed to regain its dominant position in the Chinese smartphone market

Apple chose Alibaba partly due to the e-commerce giant’s vast troves of personal data on users' shopping and payment habits, which could help train AI models

Announcing a roll-back of the service, Apple said it will re-enable the feature in a future update after improving it

Indonesia’s huge, tech-savvy population is a key market for Apple but sales of the new iPhone 16 remain banned in the country

The Chinese tech giant's latest smartphone series, Mate 70, is equipped with a homegrown 5G chip and its own operating system HarmonyOS Next

Losing out on the Indonesian market could be significant to Apple at a time it is struggling to bolster sales in China, which has been one of its top markets

The third-quarter is also traditionally when Taiwan's tech companies up the pace making smartphones and tablets for Western markets' festive period

Analysts forecast Apple will struggle to fulfil as much as 15% of its iPhone 14 and 15 models demand during the Indian festive season due to the blaze

Power demands of the likes of Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Nvidia is complicating investors' love affair with tech stocks

Sales of foreign-branded smartphones in China fell in August, while overall handset sales in the country increased 27%

Samsung is struggling to keep up with smaller chip rival SK Hynix, while it’s also facing stiff smartphone competition from Apple and Huawei