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Nasdaq hits one-month low after Tesla, Alphabet disappoint with lackluster earnings
The Nasdaq tumbled on Wednesday, reaching a one-month low. Tesla’s disappointing earnings, including a sharp decline in profit margins…
President Trump’s VP pick J.D. Vance supports Big Tech crackdown
Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick J.D. Vance supports using antitrust laws to challenge Big Tech, especially in…
Lucrative Apple – Google default search deal threatened by antitrust lawsuit
Apple’s lucrative deal with Google, making Google Search the default on Safari, faces an uncertain future due to the looming U.S. Department…
Apple Intelligence may add more GenAI options beyond OpenAI’s ChatGPT – until they have their own
Apple may add other chatbot options to Siri and Apple Intelligence beyond the starting partner OpenAI – think Google’s Gemini, Baidu’s…
Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android
Apple and Google have worked together to create an industry specification — Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers…
Apple expected to report biggest quarterly revenue decline in more than a year
Apple’s plans to catch up to rivals in generative AI and revive sagging sales in the Chinese smartphone market will be in focus on Thursday…
Stock market’s ‘Magnificent Seven’ is really now the Fab Four as Apple, Alphabet, and Tesla sputter
Even as the stock market is heads higher, the “Magnificent Seven” trade is beginning to fizzle, with Apple, Alphabet, and Tesla sputtering…
Apple looks to license Google Gemini for iPhone, generative AI tools
Apple is in talks to build Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence engine into iPhone, iPad, and other platforms, people familiar with the…
U.S. appeals court dismisses child labor case against Apple, other tech companies
A U.S. federal appeals court on Tuesday refused to hold Apple and four other major technology companies liable over their alleged support…
Apple and the rest of ‘The Magnificent Seven’ dominate the S&P 500
The U.S. stock market is nearly the most concentrated it has ever been – the only exception being the late 1920s (gulp) – with the top five…
Apple readies generative AI tool for app developers
Apple, scrambling to catch up in artificial intelligence capabilities, is nearing the completion of a generative AI tool for app developers…
EU asks Apple to clarify app store risk management under Digital Services Act
Today, the European Commission formally sent requests for information under the Digital Services Act to Apple and Alphabet-subsidiary Google…
UK antitrust regulator wins appeal to launch Apple probe
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), has been granted authority by the Court of Appeal to launch a probe of Apple’s Safari mobile…
Google’s Pichai worried over ‘bad optics,’ poor ‘user experience’ with search engine deal with Apple
Google’s Sundar Pichai raised concerns years before he became the company’s chief executive officer that its deal with Apple had “bad optics”…
Apple considered, rejected default search switch to DuckDuckGo from Google
Apple held talks with DuckDuckGo to replace Alphabet subsidiary Google’s search engine as the default for the private mode on…
A full-blown Apple search engine may be closer than you think
A full-blown Apple search engine to compete with Alphabet subsidiary Google may be closer than you think as Cupertino…
Apple AI Chief: iOS 17 gives users search engine choice in private mode
Former Google executive, John Giannandrea, now Apple’s artificial intelligence / machine learning honcho, pointed out a quiet change…
DuckDuckGo founder says Google’s partnerships with Apple, others stifle competition
DuckDuckGo founder Gabriel Weinberg testified in the DOJ’s antitrust trial against Google Thursday that it was difficult for his search…
Why does Google pay Apple tens of billions of dollars annually to be Safari’s default search engine?
Google pays Apple tens of billions of dollars annually to be Safari’s default search engine because iPhone users are…
Apple execs Eddy Cue and John Giannandrea set to testify in DOJ’s Google search trial
Two of Apple’s highest-ranking executives will testify in the U.S. Department of Justice’s trial against Alphabet subsidiary Google …
Major Apple supplier TSMC to invest up to $100 million in Arm Holdings’ IPO
Major Apple supplier TSMC, the world’s largest contract chipmaker, will invest up to $100 million in chip designer Arm Holdings Plc’s IPO …
DOJ antitrust trial focuses on the billions Google pays Apple to be Safari’s default search engine
The Department of Justice’s case against Alphabet-subsidiary Google is the first test of Silicon Valley’s dominance since it took action against…
Billionaire investors are buying Apple stock ‘hand over fist’
During the second quarter, a number of highly successful billionaire investors gobbled up Apple stock and shares of Nvidia and Microsoft…
Apple in talks to invest in Arm’s IPO in chip influence tug of war
Arm Holdings Ltd’s clients are angling to snap up shares in its initial public offering (IPO), putting the semiconductor designer’s adherence…
NBA’s local TV rights draw interest from Apple, other tech and media companies
Apple, ESPN-owner Disney, Amazon, DirecTV, and Alphabet’s YouTube have expressed interest in streaming local NBA games, potentially taking…
Investors brace for earnings from Apple, rest of ‘Magnificent Seven’ American companies
Led by Apple, a handful of massive growth and technology names that have dominated the U.S. stock market in 2023 are set to report…
The Nasdaq 100 ‘special rebalance’ aims to cut Apple, Microsoft, others down to size
Apple, Microsoft, and the rest of big tech have rapidly grown too big for the Nasdaq 100. The index’s solution is a “special rebalance.”
Why Apple and the rest of big tech are getting hit by the Nasdaq 100 ‘special rebalance’
Apple, Microsoft, and the rest of big tech have gotten too big for the Nasdaq 100 index. Unfortunately, the Nasdaq 100’s solution…
Nasdaq 100 plans special rebalance to curb dominance of Apple, select others
The Nasdaq 100 index is set to adjust the weighting of its 100 components, with the “magnificent seven” stocks Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia…
Google set to hire former Apple executive as India policy head
Alphabet Inc. subsidiary Google is set to appoint manufacturing and policy veteran Sreenivasa Reddy in India to tackle legal challenges…
Google’s derivative Android is inexorably bleeding customers to real iPhones
Last month CIRP analyzed how many Android settlers were upgrading to iPhone and found it to be at a 5-year high. Now, in a new report…
Apple and Alphabet join forces to fight unwanted AirTag tracking
Apple and Google said on Tuesday they were working together to curb unwanted tracking of people by Bluetooth devices such as AirTags used…
Apple, other tech firms push to curb U.S. government spying on texts, emails
Apple and other large tech companies are mounting a push to limit how U.S. government intelligence agencies collect and view …
Google hikes YouTube TV price to $73 per month
Via Twitter, Google-parent Alphabet has announced an increase of $8 per month for its YouTube TV live streaming television service…
Apple generates an amazing $2.4 million in annual revenue per employee
Apple has consistently been the most efficient of the major U.S. technology companies when measured on revenue generated per…
Florida AG looks to require Apple, Google to flag ‘foreign-owned apps’ for users before downloading
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody is looking to require Apple’s App Store to notify their customers when a mobile app is foreign-owned…
U.S. House Judiciary subpoenas Apple CEO Tim Cook, other Big Tech CEOs over free speech
U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan on Wednesday subpoenaed Apple CEO Tim Cook and other tech CEOS over free-speech issues…
Apple spent more on lobbying than ever before as tech execs shelled out donations to key Republicans
Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft broke their lobbying spending records last year as they fended off heightened scrutiny of their business models…
U.S. Commerce Department: Apple and Google’s app stores wield ‘gatekeeper’ power and should be reined in
A new U.S. Commerce Department report claims that Apple and Google “play a significant gatekeeping role by controlling (and restricting)…
U.S. DOJ antitrust lawsuit against Google could benefit Apple
A landmark lawsuit by the U.S. Justice Department against Alphabet’s Google subsidiary over its abusive digital advertising monopoly…
U.S. Justice Department sues Google for monopolizing digital advertising technologies
Today, the U.S. Justice Department filed a civil antitrust suit against Google for monopolizing multiple digital advertising technology…
