* Good quarterly numbers from Airgain (back in the black), Chicony Electronics, Chicony Power, Diodes, EXCO Technologies, Fabrinet, Genpact, Glu Mobile (back in the black), GIS, JD.com, Kratos (back in the black), MTS Systems, Rimini Street, Telefonica Brasil and Ubiquiti Networks. * Very good year-end figures from Softbank. * Very good quarterly figures from Camtek, Smith Micro Software (back in the black) and Tactile Systems Technology (back in the black). * Excellent quarterly results from Brinno. * Weatherford International, burdened by a heavy debt load and years of losses, will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. * Turkey's Personal Data Protection Authority fined Facebook a total of $270 976 in April due to a data breach. * Toyota Motor and Panasonic plan to establish a joint company to develop 'connected' services to be used in homes and urban development. * TiVo is planning to split its product division from its intellectual property licensing unit, as the set-top box maker looks to attract buyers for its businesses. * India's anti-trust watchdog has ordered an investigation into Google for allegedly abusing the dominant position of its popular Android mobile operating system to block rivals. The JV would be formed with Malaysian telecoms firm, Axiata Group, as the pair look to leverage powerful economies of scale to compete across several hypercompetitive markets. * Telenor is looking to dramatically boost its overseas offering by launching a new joint venture (JV) that would attract over 300 million customers in Southeast Asia. However, the judgement would be uncollectible, as Xtal is in bankruptcy, but under a settlement arrangement, ASML will end up owning most or all of Xtal's intellectual property through the bankruptcy process. * A US court has issued its final judgement in favour of ASML Holding in an intellectual property theft case against US software maker Xtal, awarding the former $845 million along with an injunction. * Softbank made a $4 billion investment in Yahoo Japan, increasing its stake to nearly 45%. * Bank of China Group Investment led a $750 million investment in Chinese artificial intelligence provider Megvii ahead of its planned IPO in Hong Kong later this year. * Zix acquired the assets of Cirius Messaging, and wholly-owned subsidiary, DeliverySlip, which is a provider of e-mail encryption, e-signatures and secure file-sharing solutions. * Visa purchased Earthport, a company that provides cross-border payment services to banks, money transfer service providers and businesses via the world's largest independent ACH network. * Symantec bought Luminate Security to better protect users around workloads and applications, regardless of where they are deployed or what infrastructure they are accessed through. * Proofpoint acquired Meta Networks, a network access vendor, for $120 million. * Orange purchased SecureLink, a Dutch cyber security specialist, for EUR515 million. * Netflix bought StoryBots, known for its "Ask the StoryBots" series, as it looks to make more shows for children ahead of the launch of Walt Disney's streaming service later this year. * NCR acquired Texas POS, a leading restaurant technology company. * Marvell Technology Group purchased Aquantia, a leader in multi-gig Ethernet connectivity, for $452 million. * LexisNexis Risk Solutions bought Numerica's Lumen assets, an integrated data platform leveraged by public safety analysts, investigators, patrol officers and commanders to help solve cases faster. * Digital Colony Partners and EQT Partners Fiber acquired Zayo Group Holdings for $14.3 billion, in a deal that will take the fibre-network owner private.
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