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AppleMagazine
AMAZON OPENS ONLINE PHARMACY, SHAKING UP ANOTHER INDUSTRY
Now at Amazon.com: insulin and inhalers.
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AppleMagazine #473
AppleMagazine
AIRBNB DETAILS YEARS OF LOSSES AHEAD OF PLANNED IPO
Airbnb was losing money even before the pandemic struck and cut its revenue by almost a third, the home-sharing company revealed in documents filed this week ahead of a planned initial public offering of its stock.
3 min |
AppleMagazine #473
AppleMagazine
MacBooks: M1 Processor Takes Mac Family Into a New Era
This year, our computers have been more important than ever before. Whether we’re working from home or catching up with friends over FaceTime, our Macs have become a part of who we are.
8 min |
November 13, 2020
AppleMagazine
UBER'S FOOD DELIVERY BUSINESS OUTSHINES CORE RIDES SERVICE
Uber’s food delivery business brought in more money during the third quarter than its signature rides business, showing just how much consumer behavior has changed — and how far the company has adapted — since the pandemic struck.
2 min |
November 13, 2020
AppleMagazine
ROLES AREN'T FOR KEEPS ON ‘CROWN,' EVEN NEWCOMER PRINCESS DI
For viewers, “The Crown” offers a peek into a modern royal family’s life and times, or at least an engaging dramatization. For the cast, it’s meant the lofty equivalent of gig work as the Netflix series ticks through the decades.
5 min |
November 13, 2020
AppleMagazine
TAIWAN PROCESSOR CHIP MAKER TO SET UP $3.5 BILLION U.S. ARM
A Taiwanese maker of processor chips for Apple Inc. and other customers plans to invest $3.5 billion to set up its second U.S. manufacturing site amid American concern about relying too heavily on sources in Asia for high-tech components.
1 min |
November 13, 2020
AppleMagazine
RIGHTS ACTIVISTS SLAM EU PLAN FOR ACCESS TO ENCRYPTED CHATS
Digital rights campaigners this week criticized a proposal by European Union governments that calls for communications companies to provide authorities with access to encrypted messages.
2 min |
November 13, 2020
AppleMagazine
MISSISSIPPI PROGRAM TO USE DOOR CAMERAS TO FIGHT CRIME
Mississippi’s capital city could begin using residents’ door security cameras in its effort to fight rising crime.
2 min |
November 13, 2020
AppleMagazine
LYFT'S RESULTS SHOW PAIN BUT ALSO HOPE AS SOME RIDERS RETURN
Lyft is still feeling the pandemic’s severe impact on the ride-hailing industry but its third-quarter results show signs of a recovery from the previous three months when passengers stayed locked down.
2 min |
November 13, 2020
AppleMagazine
FTC SAYS ZOOM MISLED USERS ON ITS SECURITY FOR MEETINGS
Federal regulators are requiring Zoom to strengthen its security in a proposed settlement of allegations that the video conferencing service misled users about its level of security for meetings.
2 min |
November 13, 2020
AppleMagazine
JUDGE POSTPONES TRUMP'S TIKTOK BAN IN SUIT BROUGHT BY USERS
A federal judge has postponed President Donald Trump’s threatened shutdown of the popular short-form video app TikTok, siding with a Pennsylvania comedian and two other TikTok creators who say Trump’s order hampers their free speech.
1 min |
AppleMagazine #471
AppleMagazine
FERRARI PROFIT STEADY AS IT RECOVERS LOST LOCKDOWN OUTPUT
Luxury sportscar maker Ferrari this week reported its profits remained flat in the third quarter as it recovers lost production from the coronavirus shutdown.
1 min |
AppleMagazine #471
AppleMagazine
EU DIGITAL BOSS: NEW RULES TO CURB BIG TECH AIM FOR FAIRNESS
The European Union is set to propose new laws to rein in the power of big tech companies, including measures to ensure customers are protected, smaller rivals are treated fairly, and illegal content is dealt with, the bloc’s digital and antitrust chief said this week.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #471
AppleMagazine
BUSINESS LEADERS SURVEY HITS HIGHEST LEVEL IN 16 YEARS
The overall economic measure of a monthly survey of Midwest business leaders hit a 16year high for October, but the manufacturing sector of the economy remains stunted from the coronavirus outbreak, according to the Creighton University Mid-America Business Conditions Index released this week.
1 min |
AppleMagazine #471
AppleMagazine
UBER, LYFT PREVAIL TO KEEP CALIFORNIA WORKERS INDEPENDENT
Uber, Lyft and other app-based ride-hailing and delivery services prevailed at the ballot box in their expensive gamble to keep drivers classified as independent contractors.
1 min |
AppleMagazine #471
AppleMagazine
SEARCH: APPLE COULD RIVAL GOOGLE WITH NEW INDEXING SERVICE
As antitrust battles continue to dominate Silicon Valley, Apple is using its initiative, planning for a future where multibillion-dollar tie-ups aren’t acceptable.
7 min |
AppleMagazine #471
AppleMagazine
NETFLIX RAISING US STREAMING PRICES AMID BOOMING GROWTH
Netflix is raising most of its U.S. prices by 8% to 13% as its video streaming service rides a wave of rising popularity spurred by government-imposed lockdowns that corralled people at home during the fight against the pandemic.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #471
AppleMagazine
JETBLUE IS THE LATEST AIRLINE TO RETREAT FROM BLOCKING SEATS
The days of airlines blocking seats to make passengers feel safer about flying during the pandemic are coming closer to an end.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #471
AppleMagazine
CALIFORNIANS CONSIDER EXPANDING LANDMARK DATA PRIVACY LAW
Two years ago, California became the first state to pass a sweeping digital privacy law seen as the strongest of its kind in the United States. Voters are now deciding whether to refine and expand that law, or leave it as is.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #471
AppleMagazine
AIRBNB SETS UP ENDOWMENT, COUNCIL FOR HOSTS AHEAD OF IPO
Airbnb is setting up an endowment fund to support its 4 million hosts as part of its upcoming initial public offering.
1 min |
AppleMagazine #471
AppleMagazine
VIDEO APP TIKTOK LEANS INTO E-COMMERCE WITH SHOPIFY DEAL
The popular short-form video app TikTok, still under U.S. government scrutiny for its Chinese ownership, is moving closer to becoming a marketplace for buying stuff.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #470
AppleMagazine
T-MOBILE OFFERS UP YET ANOTHER TV STREAMING SERVICE
Yet another service provider is jumping into the TV streaming wars. This time it’s T-Mobile and its TVision service with live news, entertainment and sports channels, starting at $10 a month.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #470
AppleMagazine
STRESSED FRESHMEN MISSING QUINTESSENTIAL COLLEGE EXPERIENCE
It’s a major life milestone, the first time many U.S. teens have ever been on their own. Even in normal times, freshman year in college can be a jumbled mix of anticipation, uncertainty and emotional highs and lows.
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AppleMagazine #470
AppleMagazine
SOME BALLOT REQUESTS MAY BE AFFECTED BY COUNTY CYBER ATTACK
A hacker attack against an upstate New York county’s computer system raised concern that some emailed absentee ballot applications may not be processed, but the state Board of Elections said voting won’t be affected overall.
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AppleMagazine #470
AppleMagazine
MUSIC TV: TAKING SHOTS AT MTV WITH NEW DIGITAL TV STATION
In an unexpected move, Apple announced in late October that it would launch Apple Music TV, a new 24-hour curated live stream of chart-topping music videos, designed to encourage more consumers to subscribe to its Apple TV+ streaming service.
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AppleMagazine #470
AppleMagazine
SOCIAL MEDIA CEOS GET EARFUL ON BIAS, WARNING OF NEW LIMITS
With next week’s election looming, the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google were scolded by Republicans at a Senate hearing for alleged anticonservative bias in the companies’ social media platforms and received a warning of coming restrictions from Congress.
4 min |
AppleMagazine #470
AppleMagazine
MEDIA ELECTION PLANNERS PREPARE FOR A NIGHT OF MYSTERY
This coming weekend, CNN’s Sam Feist will distribute to his staff copies of the testimony news executives gave to Congress when they tried to explain how television networks got 2000’s disputed election so spectacularly wrong.
4 min |
AppleMagazine #470
AppleMagazine
HALLOWEEN IN 2020: SOME FUN WITH DEATH AND FEAR, ANYONE?
The setting: a rolling patch of Pennsylvania farmland, about 15 miles from the little town where “Night of the Living Dead” was filmed. The moment: Halloween season 2020, a moonlit Friday night.
7 min |
AppleMagazine #470
AppleMagazine
BORAT IS BACK, AND THIS TIME HE FITS RIGHT IN
Since Sacha Baron Cohen first appeared as his Kazakh journalist on “Da Ali G Show,” Borat Sagdiyev has been remarkably consistent. The accent is the same. The gray suit is still rumpled. “Nahce” and “Mah Wahfe” regularly exude from him with a mangled melody. Borat hasn’t changed in the last 20 years. But America has.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #470
AppleMagazine
ASTEROID SAMPLES ESCAPING FROM JAMMED NASA SPACECRAFT
A NASA spacecraft is stuffed with so much asteroid rubble from this week’s grab that it’s jammed open and precious particles are drifting away in space, scientists said.
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