Londoners react to Google cutting ties with Huawei
By AFP
27 May 2019 |
11:46 am
Londoners react to the announcement that US internet giant Google, whose Android mobile operating system powers most of the world's smartphones, said it was beginning to cut ties with China's Huawei.
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