Some of the top tech trends of the week are the stories surrounding Huawei, Zoom, mobile app redesigns, Jeff Bezos, and big companies buying others. In case you missed some of these hot topics, you can catch up on them with the summary below.

Also, look out for links to the main stories to get your background details. The week started with Zoom’s cloud meeting mobile app topping the chart of the most downloaded free apps on Google; both in Nigeria and the world as a whole.

Still on mobile applications, Microsoft began the final arrangements to roll out a text-prediction feature for the Outlook app. In addition, Slack mobile users also got a new redesign on the app as well.

Xiaomi’s Redmi Note 9 began selling in India during this week and both TECNO and Infinix launched new smartphones. The former had unveiled the Spark 5 series while the latter released the Note 7. Both launch events were online and generated lots of interest on social media.

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There were reports that Apple could be moving about $40 billion worth of iPhone production to India. The period for this is still vague and you can see the details here. The company also bought a virtual reality company, NextVR in this same week.

Speaking about buying companies, Facebook bought GIF company Giphy for $400 million. The company also plans to pay its content moderators a total sum of $52 million for some of the job’s damaging effects.

Twitter had announced that its workers can continue working from home indefinitely even after the ‘stay home’ policy is fully lifted. The networking platform also saw massive outrage after stories surfaced that Amazon’s Jeff Bezos could become a trillionaire by 2026. See what went down here.

Epic Games store also crashed this week after the company announced making GTA V free for users for seven days. Meanwhile, to appeal to game enthusiasts, MediaTek announced a new 5G chipset.

Analytics claim that Samsung A51 was the single most sold smartphone in the first quarter of 2020. Situations between Huawei and the US seems to not be getting any better. This week, the US made new policies on chips that further frustrates the tech giant’s business in the country. The announcement came a day after Huawei released a new phone that can access Google services.

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