BlackBerry is not done yet. After trying to sell itself in 2013, and cutting the entire hardware department three months ago, the once best-selling smartphone brand has now found a new home in China. 

Chinese electronics company TCL was licensed to build and sell BlackBerry smartphones globally on Thursday. It is the Canadian telecommunication firm’s first licensing deal since it announced it would become a software-only company in September.

So who exactly are TCL? Founded in 1981 in southern China's Huizhou, TCL made a fortune by building TVs, cellphones, air-conditioners and many other consumer electrics. The company now has more than 75,000 employees in 80 countries.

BlackBerry's Chief Operating Officer Ralph Pini said the cooperation is "the natural choice." But we cannot be 100 percent sure this agreement will turn out well. Neither company currently holds a large market share, so both will have to build some really cool features to differentiate their products. And as we all can observe, innovation is no longer easy in the smartphone industry.

But still, we want more good tech to play with. We hope TCL and the qwerty-phone godfather can make us excited.

Super Mario's landing on Apple's App Store on Thursday seemed to some like a massive betrayal from its creator Nintendo. But it's not, at least not completely.

Nintendo becomes stubborn when talking about smartphone gaming. Satoru Iwata, former president of the Japanese entertainment giant, took a stand against mobile games before he died in 2015. He said time and time again that free-to-play games on cellphones will harm the entire gaming world.

Although the brave plumber is now running on your iPhone, it is a paid game. It costs 9.99 US dollars in America, and similar prices in other parts of the globe.

So Nintendo has not betrayed its philosophy. Instead, it's trying to survive in the face of changing player demand. Seems like this strategy has worked out, as the game shot to the top of the charts hours after launch. Super Mario Run saw 2,850,000 downloads on day one, according to intelligence firm Apptopia. Pokémon GO, a gaming sensation earlier this year, saw just 900,000 downloads on day one. 

As we flagged up in last week's digest, President-elect Donald Trump met with top executives from prominent US technology companies on Wednesday, telling Silicon Valley leaders that his goal is "to help you folks do well."

At the meeting in New York were leading figures from Apple, Amazon, Facebook, SpaceX, Alphabet, Microsoft, Intel, IBM, Oracle, Cisco Systems and Palantir Technologies.

During the election campaign, virtually none of them supported Trump, and some openly challenged his temperament and qualifications for the nation's highest office. Despite those tensions, Trump named Tesla CEO Elon Musk to a business advisory council that will give private-sector input to Trump after he takes office on January 20. Uber's Travis Kalanick was also appointed, though he didn't attend the meeting.

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey was surprisingly absent from the invite list to Trump's tech summit. This is particularly notable given Trump's heavy use of the social media platform.

It took two massive data breaches for Verizon to start repricing its Yahoo deal.

The US-based Internet pioneer announced on Wednesday that hackers took the data of more than one billion of its users back in 2013. The data breach is the largest in history. The company revealed another significant hack attack in September. 

The new revelation came in the middle of the acquisition deal between Yahoo and Verizon, the No. 1 wireless carrier in the US. Verizon is now negotiating with Yahoo to amend some terms, including reducing the price, which is currently 4.8 billion US dollars.

Media reports on this latest chapter of the prolonged deal suggest Verizon may walk away if the price isn't reduced.

What will happen to Yahoo if Verizon pulls out? Big companies refuse to take it, while users refuse to trust it. Will Yahoo fall? That may depend on the negotiations between the two companies in the coming days.

The cover story of Friday's Science magazine featured some interesting new research into large diamonds. It suggests that our previous understanding of how the Earth was formed was not completely accurate.

Diamonds were formed hundreds of kilometers below ground, and were brought to the Earth's surface by volcanic eruptions. Therefore, through analyzing diamonds we can learn more about the makeup of Earth's interior.

Until recently, scientists expected that the mantle, the part of the planet between the continental plates and its core, would be pretty thoroughly mixed, with oxygen distributed throughout. But these diamonds show that until relatively recently, there were pockets that somehow managed to resist that mixing.

As there's currently no technology to help us get to the mantle, it will still take some time for us to fully understand the inside of our planet.