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Australian Says Watchdog Considers Its Own Google Antitrust Case
Australia’s competition watchdog will consider its own antitrust case against Google, the commission chairman said this week after the U.S. Justice Department sued the company for abusing its dominance in online search and advertising.
2 min |
October 23, 2020
AppleMagazine
A New Set Of Shopping Tips In The Pandemic
Now, shopping looks much different.
4 min |
October 23, 2020
AppleMagazine
US SPACECRAFT TOUCHES ASTEROID SURFACE FOR RARE RUBBLE GRAB
A NASA spacecraft descended to an asteroid Tuesday and, dodging boulders the size of buildings, momentarily touched the surface to collect a handful of cosmic rubble for return to Earth.
3 min |
October 23, 2020
AppleMagazine
AN ELECTRIC HUMMER? BATTERY POWERED TRUCKS HEAD TO SHOWROOMS
General Motors is among them, and this week its GMC brand introduced a new electric Hummer pickup, with a high-end version due in showrooms sometime in the fall of next year.
3 min |
October 23, 2020
AppleMagazine
DC DEBUTS SMARTPHONE-BASED COVID-19 EXPOSURE ALERT SYSTEM
The nation’s capital has become one of the first jurisdictions in the country to employ a new COVID-19 notification system, a joint GoogleApple venture that delivers alerts to people’s phones, notifying them that they may have been exposed to the coronavirus.
2 min |
October 23, 2020
AppleMagazine
HOMEPOD MINI: HUGE COMPUTATIONAL AUDIO IN A LITTLE PACKAGE
HomePod was introduced to much fanfare in 2018, but it was a smaller, more affordable smart device that consumers were crying out for.
7 min |
October 23, 2020
AppleMagazine
‘SESAME STREET' LAUNCHES A PODCAST TO HELP EDUCATE KIDS
What has more letters than the alphabet? That’s easy: The post office.
3 min |
October 23, 2020
AppleMagazine
NETFLIX REPORTS A SUMMER SLUMP IN SUBSCRIBER GROWTH
Netflix’s subscriber growth slowed dramatically during the summer months after surging in the spring fueled by pandemic lockdowns that corralled millions of people in their homes.
2 min |
October 23, 2020
AppleMagazine
HOW GOOGLE EVOLVED FROM ‘CUDDLY' STARTUP TO ANTITRUST TARGET
In Google’s infancy, co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin reviled Microsoft as a technological bully that ruthlessly abused its dominance of the personal computer software market to choke off competition that could spawn better products.
5 min |
October 23, 2020
AppleMagazine
FORTUNES OF CHINA'S INTERNET TYCOONS SOAR AMID PANDEMIC
Jack Ma, founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba, held onto his status as China’s richest tycoon this year as surging demand for online shopping and other services during the coronavirus pandemic swelled the fortunes of internet entrepreneurs, according to a survey released this week.
2 min |
October 23, 2020
AppleMagazine
Global Watchdog Proposes Tax Overhaul For Big Tech
A global economic watchdog this week proposed an overhaul of international tax rules to make sure big tech companies pay their dues and warned that failure to adopt it would make the economic recovery from COVID-19 harder.
2 min |
October 16, 2020
AppleMagazine
Airbnb Requires Hosts To Commit To Enhanced Cleaning
Airbnb said it will require hosts to comply with enhanced cleaning procedures as part of its effort to reassure guests and local officials during the coronavirus pandemic.
1 min |
October 16, 2020
AppleMagazine
JPMORGAN, CITI PROFITS IMPROVE AMID SIGNS OF RECOVERY
Two of the nation’s biggest banks — JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup — said that their profits improved markedly over the summer, as the U.S. economy tried to bounce back from the coronavirus shutdowns that were imposed earlier this year.
2 min |
October 16, 2020
AppleMagazine
TWILIO BUYS SEGMENT FOR $3.2B AS DEMAND FOR CLOUD TECH BOOMS
Twilio is buying customer data start-up Segment in a stock deal valued at about $3.2 billion as demand for cloud technology surges during the pandemic.
1 min |
October 16, 2020
AppleMagazine
THE PROMISE OF 5G WIRELESS SPEED, HYPE, RISK
A much-hyped network upgrade called “5G” means different things to different people.
3 min |
October 16, 2020
AppleMagazine
iPHONE 12 PUSHING FURTHER THAN EVER BEFORE
Despite a month-long delay due to COVID-19 supply chain issues, the virtual announcement of this year’s iPhone range did not disappoint.
7 min |
October 16, 2020
AppleMagazine
MALCOLM JENKINS STARTS VENTURE CAPITAL FUND WITH NFL PLAYERS
Malcolm Jenkins has teamed with fellow NFL players to launch a venture capital fund.
2 min |
October 16, 2020
AppleMagazine
WALMART TO SPREAD OUT DEALS TO AVOID BLACK FRIDAY CROWDS
Walmart says it will spread out its traditional one-day Black Friday deals over three weekends in November in an effort to reduce crowds in its stores during a pandemic.
2 min |
October 16, 2020
AppleMagazine
DISNEY REORG TO FURTHER BOLSTER COMPANY'S FOCUS ON STREAMING
Disney said that it is reorganizing its business units to focus even more on streaming.
1 min |
October 16, 2020
AppleMagazine
IBM TO SPIN OFF $19B BUSINESS TO FOCUS ON CLOUD COMPUTING
IBM says it is breaking off a $19 billion chunk of its business to focus on cloud computing.
1 min |
October 16, 2020
AppleMagazine
Boeing Says Pandemic Will Cut Demand For Planes For a Decade
Boeing is lowering its expectations around demand for new planes over the next decade as the coronavirus pandemic continues to undercut air travel.
1 min |
October 09, 2020
AppleMagazine
Airnbnb Blocking Some Rentals Over Halloween To Halt Parties
Airbnb will prohibit one-night rentals over Halloween weekend as part of its ongoing effort to crack down on party houses.
1 min |
October 09, 2020
AppleMagazine
MICROSOFT PLANS $1 BILLION DATA CENTER VENTURE IN GREECE
Microsoft has announced plans to build three data center sites in greater Athens, providing a badly needed investment of up to $1 billion to the Greek economy which has been hammered by the pandemic.
2 min |
October 09, 2020
AppleMagazine
NOBEL PRIZES AND COVID-19: SLOW, BASIC SCIENCE MAY PAY OFF
While the world wants flashy quick fixes for everything, especially massive threats like the coronavirus and global warming, next week’s Nobel Prizes remind us that in science, slow and steady pays off.
4 min |
October 09, 2020
AppleMagazine
WATCH SE: AN AFFORDABLE PRICE TAG & A NEW DIRECTION FOR APPLE
Alongside the new Apple Watch Series 6 announcement at this year’s September Event, Apple introduced an altogether more interesting concept: the affordable Apple Watch SE.
7 min |
October 09, 2020
AppleMagazine
LILLY SEEKS EMERGENCY USE OF ITS ANTIBODY DRUG FOR COVID-19
A drug company says it has asked the U.S. government to allow emergency use of an experimental antibody therapy based on early results from a study that suggested the drug reduced symptoms, the amount of virus, hospitalizations and ER visits for patients with mild or moderate COVID-19.
1 min |
October 09, 2020
AppleMagazine
‘DUNE' DITCHES 2020, WHILE AMC COMMITS TO STAYING OPEN
The 2020 theatrical release calendar is getting even slimmer in the wake of the announcement that Regal cinemas are temporarily closing, although AMC, North America’s largest theater chain, says it will remain open.
2 min |
October 09, 2020
AppleMagazine
HUNDREDS OF REGAL, CINEWORLD MOVIE THEATERS TO CLOSE
In the latest blow to the beleaguered film industry, the second-largest movie theater chain in the U.S. is temporarily shuttering its locations due to a lack of blockbusters on the calendar and major domestic markets like New York remaining closed.
4 min |
October 09, 2020
AppleMagazine
JAMES BOND FILM ‘NO TIME TO DIE' PUSHED AGAIN, TO 2021
The release of the James Bond film “No Time To Die” has been delayed again, this time to 2021, because of the effects of COVID-19 on the theatrical business.
1 min |
October 09, 2020
AppleMagazine
GOOGLE, ORACLE MEET IN COPYRIGHT CLASH AT SUPREME COURT
Tech giants Google and Oracle are clashing at the Supreme Court in a copyright dispute that’s worth billions and important to the future of software development.
2 min |