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Apple CEO Cook offers ‘sympathy and support’ after YouTube shooter opens fire
Apple CEO Tim Cook has offered condolences aftercrazed YouTube shooter Nasim Aghdam…
Amazon’s Alexa is randomly laughing and nobody knows why
Some Alexa users may feel like they’ve been dropped into a science fiction story about an artificial intelligence gone awry…
Spotify, Apple, YouTube lose as Copyright Royalty Board raises streaming music royalty rates
Songwriters will get a larger cut of revenue from streaming services after a court handed technology companies a big defeat…
The Google-Facebook duopoly threatens diversity of thought
Google and Facebook control how millions of people find their news…
Apple makes money faster than J.P. Morgan, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and everyone else
The average American worker earns about $850 a week…
NYU Business Professor: Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook will all go out of business, all disappear within 50 years
Do I see all of them dying within our lifetimes? Yes…
Google Home Mini spies on everything reviewer said 24/7, transmits recordings to Google’s servers
It was waking up thousands of times a day, recording, then sending those recordings to Google…
Dow Jones spreads fake news story of Google acquiring Apple
The Dow Jones Newswires had a ‘technical error’ which caused the portal to report several spurious…
37,000 users unwittingly installed a malicious Chrome web browser extension from Google’s Web Store
A fraudulent browser extension was downloaded by 37,000 Chrome users after it sneaked past Google’s Web Store vetting processes…
Ex-Google engineer founds religion to worship Artificial Intelligence
A Silicon Valley titan who helped create Google Street View and engineered Waymo and Uber’s self-driving cars…
Should America’s tech giants be broken up? Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook may be contributing to the U.S. economy’s most persistent ailments
Google is as close to a monopoly as the Bell telephone system was in 1956…
Apple’s iPhone turns ten: No product in recent history has changed people’s lives more
The firm’s approach to data privacy will determine Apple’s success in the coming years…
European Union hits Google with record $2.73 billion fine for abusing internet search monopoly
The penalty is the biggest ever competition fine from the European Commission, doubling the previous record…
How Apple’s iCloud Photo Library matches up to Google Photos
Last week at the Google I/O developer conference, Google announced a raft of forthcoming additions…
Why Google Assistant can’t beat Apple’s Siri for iPhone users
Some people think Google’s virtual assistant beats Siri in reliability and capability…
Google Assistant features that Apple’s Siri can’t currently match
Earlier this week, Google finally put the Google Assistant onto iPhones..
Apple’s sad, sad numbers
All five companies combine for over $500-billion in revenue and $94-billion in profits…
Alphabet to push Google Assistant to iPhone as standalone app via Apple’s App Store
Google is set to announce a version of its AI-powered assistant for Apple Inc.’s iPhone as soon as Wednesday…
The 5 U.S. companies with the biggest piles of overseas cash
The Trump administration’s proposal to lower the corporate tax rate to 15% has revived hopes…
Android surpasses Windows in online OS usage share worldwide
Google’s Android is now the most popular OS in the world across all hardware platforms…
Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android push towards two-OS smartphone world
iOS achieved continued growth across most regions tracked, except for Japan, Spain, and Urban China…
Apple CEO Cook and Google CEO Pichai spotted dining together at restaurant
While often made out to be fierce competitors, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai…
Google-parent Alphabet Inc. shares tumble as earnings miss estimates
Google-parent Alphabet reported quarterly earnings that missed analysts’ estimates on Thursday…
Google’s ‘moonshot’ projects come crashing to earth
Google’s parent company Alphabet is scaling back its support for money-losing ‘moonshot’ ventures…
Yahoo discloses ‘largest hack of all time,’ says hackers stole data from over one billion users
Yahoo said it is forcing all affected users to change their passwords and is invalidating unencrypted security questions…
Google attempts to defend Android in European Commission antitrust case
The Commission is focusing on three potentially illegal practices…
NBCUniversal inks deal to handle Apple News ad sales
Apple Inc. is outsourcing ad sales for Apple News to NBCUniversal…
Google to try to overcome Pixel phones’ myriad weaknesses with massive advertising blitz
Google’s new ‘Pixel’ smartphone is off to a fast marketing start with $3.2 million in television ads…
Google’s slow, shaky, underpowered, overpriced Pixel XL cannot compete with Apple’s iPhone 7 Plus
Google’s latest effort to show off its vision for ‘Pure Android’ hardware costs the same as Apple’s iPhone 7 Plus…
Think Apple’s iPhone is expensive? Take a look at the price tags on Google’s slow Pixel and Pixel XL phones
For years the Android fanboy argument has been that the iPhone is too expensive and that Android offers…
Yahoo secretly scanned all customer emails for FBI, NSA, sources say
Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails…
Edward Snowden: No matter what, do not use Google’s new Allo messenger app
Google has received much criticism for changes it made to Allo upon its release…
Google is axing Chrome apps for Mac and Windows
Google will be killing off Chrome apps for both Mac and Windows in the next few years…
Apple, AT&T, others to work on ‘robocall’ crackdown
AT&T chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson will announce laster today that 33 companies including the Apple Inc…
How to make Google’s YouTube stop tracking what you watch
When you are logged in to your Google Account, YouTube keeps a running list of everything you watch on the site for a few reasons…
Apple’s Mac is now a threat to Alphabet Inc.’s Google
Later this year, Apple will release macOS Sierra, the next version of its Mac operating system…
EU alleges Google skews search results to boost its own products and services
Google faces a new antitrust attack from European Union regulators who allege the search engine…
Apple’s use of cutting-edge tech will peek at user habits without violating privacy
Apple Inc. is tapping new technology to garner insight into user behavior…
Apple seeks to use AI to keep Google off your iPhones, iPads, and Macs
Apple Inc.’s new artificial-intelligence capabilities may help it protect its software and services businesses…
Google shares dip amid report U.S. FTC could reopen search probe
Federal Trade Commission officials are asking questions again about whether Google has abused its dominance…
Google parent Alphabet Inc. misses on Q1 earnings, shares fall
Google parent Alphabet had a slight beat on revenue but missed on earnings per share…
