SAN FRANCISCO / AP It sounds like a great idea: Forget passwords, and instead lock your phone or computer with your fingerprint. It’s a convenient form of security — though it’s also perhaps not as safe as you’d think. In their rush to do away with problematic passwords, Apple, Microsoft and other tech companies are nudging consumers to use …

  Bloomberg Chinese mobile developer Meitu Inc. started testing demand for a proposed Hong Kong initial public offering of about $750 million, which could become the city’s biggest technology listing in nearly a decade. The Xiamen-based company, which makes apps used to touch up selfie photos, will gauge interest from potential investors from Monday through Dec. 2, according to terms …

  Dubai / Emirates Business Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) has announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QTI), and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., have extended their decade-long strategic foundry collaboration to manufacture Qualcomm Technologies’ latest Snapdragon premium processor, Qualcomm® Snapdragonâ„¢ 835, with Samsung’s 10-nanometer (nm) FinFET process technology. The decision to use Samsung’s cutting edge process in the next generation …