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To: locogringo who wrote (1165581)	9/22/2019 8:36:58 AM
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OOPS! Chinese chipmakers soar on 5G ambitions. mybroadband.co.za China’s ambitions for next-generation wireless networks have propelled the country’s two leading printed circuit boards makers to new heights. The party may just be getting started. Jiangsu-based WUS Printed Circuit Kunshan Co. and Shenzhen-based Shennan Circuits Co. shot to record highs on Friday, capping a stunning months-long run on anticipation of billions of dollars in spending by Chinese carriers on fifth-generation networks. PCBs are vital for a spectrum of electronics from smartphones to base stations to smart cars. Shares of WUS have doubled in the third quarter alone, their strongest growth since its initial public offering in Shenzhen nine years ago. Rival Shennan surged 55% during the same period. Yet both have room to run because homegrown players are now favoured by Beijing, which is increasingly wary of using foreign technology as tensions with Washington ratchet up. China’s 5G rollout, which will require a level of spending unseen in the rest of the world, should underpin the two PCB makers’ longer-term prospects. Both supply components to Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp., the nation’s networking leaders. “Apart from 5G demand, China’s attempt to use home-made tech components will drive the businesses of WUS and Shennan,” said Zhu Jixiang, an analyst with CSC International Holdings. “The growth momentum of the PCB sector should continue.” Industry bellwethers Shennan and WUS took off in the third quarter On the flip side, WUS and Shennan look pricey in the wake of their rallies. WUS is trading at about 39 times its blended two-year projected earnings, well above the 20 times average of its peers. And Shennan is at 42 times its one-year projected earnings, again outpacing the industry. Analysts argue both are solidly profitable businesses with essentially new sources of future revenue. WUS’s net income surged 143% in the first half and is expected to grow on average 83% in 2019. Its counterpart is expected to increase profit by 43% this year. Those numbers surpass longstanding investor darling Kweichow Moutai Co., which is expected to grow net income by around 23%. “The surge in PCB makers since June was due to on-target shipment of 5G base stations as well as increasing demand from smartphone vendors,” said Bright Smart Securities analyst Mark Huang. As Chinese 5G ramps up, PCB-related stocks are likely to sustain the current growth momentum, Huang said.

To: locogringo who wrote (1165581)	9/22/2019 8:38:11 AM
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RASMUSSEN=FAKE POLLSTER; PREDICTED GOP TO WIN HOUSE IN 2018... LMFAO...

To: locogringo who wrote (1165581)	9/22/2019 8:40:57 AM
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OOPS! Huawei Mate 30 bootloader is unlockable, opening easy pathway to Google apps Jules Wang Sep 20, 2019 androidpolice.com Huawei might have been able to deploy Android 10 just in time for its Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro releases, but, thanks to a looming U.S. imports ban, Western markets will not be able to use Google apps and services on those phones... at least out of the box. We've been expecting a couple of twists to come out of the company in order to accommodate those Google-dependent customers and they have certainly come — right out of the CEO's mouth. Huawei CEO Richard Yu spent some time with the press in Munich yesterday to talk about the Google apps situation. Apparently, the key message was that users can't sideload Google Play services and apps onto the devices and that consumers would either have to settle for Huawei's native services or putting in third-party apps from Amazon and other sources. Later on, Yu sat down to talk with Android Authority. When pressed about how the company's approach in bootloader policy has shifted from open to closed over the past couple of year, he framed it as a matter of offering customers "more security." "But this time we will leave more freedom for the consumers so they can do more customization by themselves," Yu went on to say. Despite all the verbal maneuvering the CEO has had to do in the past couple of days, the good news is that the Mate 30 devices' bootloaders will be unlockable. For ROM hackers, that takes a lot of the upfront work off of getting Google apps loaded onto a device, so you'll probably have an easier time sideloading them on than you would otherwise. All we're waiting for now is when we'll be able to buy the new Mates to give this a try. Source: Android Authority

To: locogringo who wrote (1165581)	9/22/2019 8:41:37 AM
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Forbes: Huawei Sends Defiant Message To Google And Trump With New ‘Harmony Studio’. forbes.com ..... Huawei has been straight with the media, that while the short-term pain might stem from the loss of the tried and tested Android ecosystem for its users outside China—it’s not available in China, the much more critical challenge is replicating the Android ecosystem of apps and developers. And this is an area that Huawei has public stated it will now pile $1 billion plus of ring-fenced investment and will add an incentive, cutting in half the revenue share demanded by Google and Apple. Huawei has the reach and resources to try to build an alternative to the Android and iOS ecosystems. It can rely on strong support from the Chinese government and its massive domestic market. And it will pull other key markets—like Russia first and foremost—away from U.S. controlled tech relatively easily. The use of price—for example cutting revenue share—is consistent with how it has effectively built market share in the past. .....

To: locogringo who wrote (1165581)	9/22/2019 9:01:44 AM
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OOPS! Feinstein Demands Barr Hand Over Whistleblower Report: This Is 'Unacceptable' huffpost.com The report allegedly concerned Trump comments during a phone call with Ukraine’s president. By Amy Russo Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is demanding that Attorney General William Barr release a whistleblower report that reportedly sounded the alarm on President Donald Trump’s requests for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s help in securing the 2020 election. “If media reports are correct that President Trump delayed military aid appropriated by Congress in order to get Ukraine to investigate a political opponent, it’s difficult not to see that as an abuse of presidential authority, plain and simple,” Feinstein ? the lead Democrat on the Judiciary Committee ? said in a statement Saturday. Trump called Zelensky in July and asked him about eight times to assist attorney Rudy Giuliani with a probe into former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Trump is said to have believed that it could hamper the elder Biden’s presidential bid. Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire has been refusing to hand over to Congress an Aug. 12 report from an intelligence officer who flagged Trump’s alleged comments, according to The Washington Post. The outlet reported that the White House legal counsel’s office also is attempting to hide the report from Congress. Feinstein called the Trump administration’s defiance “unacceptable.” “The president is essentially saying that Congress has no right to investigate the executive branch, which is a direct attack on the separation of powers,” she said. “Oversight is a constitutional function of Congress.” The senator sent a letter to Barr on Friday “demanding that the whistleblower report be transmitted to Congress, which is required by law,” she said in her statement. Feinstein also wants to know what advice may have been given to Maguire to prompt him to withhold the report. “Covering this up will only make matters worse for this administration,” she said. Feinstein joins a chorus of Democrats calling for the release of the report, including Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair Mark Warner of Virginia and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff of California, who have offered the administration the opportunity to clear the matter up in the coming days. For several months, Giuliani has tried gin up suspicion surrounding Hunter Biden’s past position on the board of Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings, for which he was paid up to $50,000 per month, The New York Times reported. His board membership ? which began in 2014 and ended in April ? has been a matter of public record for years. His membership overlapped with his father’s tenure as vice president, during which time the elder Biden pushed for the ouster of Viktor Shokin, Ukraine’s former prosecutor-general, who was helming a corruption probe into Burisma. According to the Times, during the last year of President Barack Obama’s administration, Biden “threatened to withhold $1 billion in United States loan guarantees if Ukraine’s leaders did not dismiss the country’s top prosecutor, who had been accused of turning a blind eye to corruption in his own office and among the political elite.” No evidence has emerged, however, that Biden was aware of the Burisma investigation, and Giuliani’s theory remains unfounded. Responding on Friday to Trump’s alleged communication with Zelensky, Biden said if true, it would indicate that “there is truly no bottom to President Trump’s willingness to abuse his power and abase our country.” “It means that he used the power and resources of the United States to pressure a sovereign nation ... to subvert the rule of law in the express hope of extracting a political favor.”

To: locogringo who wrote (1165581)	9/22/2019 9:41:34 AM
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MADAME PRESIDENT Elizabeth Warren overtakes Joe Biden in new Iowa poll Massachusetts senator takes support from Bernie Sanders Martin Pengelly @MartinPengelly Sun 22 Sep 2019 07.38 EDTLast modified on Sun 22 Sep 2019 09.12 EDT theguardian.com Elizabeth Warren greets guests at the Polk County Steak Fry in Des Moines, Iowa. Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty Images Elizabeth Warren leads Joe Biden in Iowa for the first time, according to a new poll in the early voting state. The survey carried out by the Des Moines Register, Mediacom and CNN puts the Massachusetts senator at 22% with likely caucus-goers, to the former vice-president’s 20%. They are well clear of the sprawling Democratic field. Vermont senator Bernie Sanders placed third, with 11%, ahead of South Bend, Indiana, mayor Pete Buttigieg on 9% and California senator Kamala Harris on 6%. New Jersey senator Cory Booker, who said on Saturday he would drop out of the race if a fundraising target is not met, was next with 3%, tied with the Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar. Harris said this week that she will go all-in on Iowa, aiming for a top-three finish. Biden still leads the realclearpolitics.com national polling average, on 30% to Warren on 19% and Sanders on 16%. Buttigieg and Harris, on 6%, are the only other candidates with more than 3% support. Most of the Democratic field is in Iowa this weekend, on Saturday for the Polk county steak fry and a people’s forum. On Friday night, many of the candidates addressed an LGBTQ p residential f orum. The shadow of Donald Trump was never far away. At the steak fry, Warren called for the impeachment of the president and told the crowd: “I know what’s broken, I know how to fix it, and we’re building a grassroots movement to make it happen.” Biden called for Americans to “pick our heads up, remember who we are, we are the United States of America”. 'A huge misstep': Angelica Ross on Sanders' LGBTQ forum no-show Read more He also addressed Trump’s calls for an investigation into his family over business ties to Ukraine, amid swirling scandal over the president’s behaviour and visits by his lawyer Rudy Giuliani to the eastern European country. “The fact of the matter is that that fellow in the White House knows that if we get the nomination we’re gonna beat him like a drum,” Biden said. “So be prepared for every lousy thing that’s coming from him.” The poll also asked likely voters for their second choices, an important selection in the caucus system. It concluded that at least 71% of likey caucus-goers are at least considering Warren, ahead of Biden on 60%. According to the poll, 32% of those who said they caucused for Sanders in 2016 now support Warren, indicating the strength of her surge among progressive Democrats.