Apple is poised to launch its expected iPhone 8, hoping the number’s auspicious connotations in China will help turn around fortunes in the world’s biggest smartphone market after six quarters of falling sales.

Samsung Electronics warned of rising competition across businesses from smartphones to memory chips, again sounding a dour note for the global technology industry in 2016.

Planned EU curbs on Chinese solar panels would last less than half as long as normal trade protection, marking a victory not just for China but for Germany, the UK, and other free-market proponents in the EU’s biggest dispute of its kind.