President Trump today heaped praise on the four big tech companies with trillion dollar plus market caps, the trillion dollar MAGA club…
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FTC probes acquisitions made by Apple and other big tech companies
The FTC issued Special Orders to five large technology firms as the agency probes acquisitions made by Apple and other big tech companies…
Apple employees donate more to Bernie Sanders in U.S. presidential race
Apple employees donate more to Bernie Sanders than any other presidential candidate, with a total of $53,626 going to Bernie Sanders in the Q419…
Jeff Bezos’ hacked iPhone had Apple’s vaunted security, and that may have helped its alleged hackers
A security report last week alleged that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos received a WhatsApp message laden with code that secretly hacked…
Apple and MGM have held acquisition talks
MGM has held preliminary talks with Apple, Netflix, and other larger media companies about an acquisition as the biggest streaming companies consider…
Which company is next to join trillion-dollar market cap club?
Apple established the trillion-dollar market cap club, followed (as usual) by perpetual Apple-follower Microsoft. Last week, Google parent Alphabet Inc…
U.S. presidential candidates’ positions on breaking up Big Tech
In the preamble to the U.S. 2020 presidential election, many Democratic White House contenders have argued in favor of either breaking up or tightening…
Facebook’s WhatsApp blamed for Jeff Bezos’ iPhone hack
Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ iPhone may have been hacked after he received a message via Facebook’s WhatsApp, from Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince…
UK vows new tax on tech firms will proceed despite U.S. pressure
US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has threatened new tariffs on UK carmakers after UK Chancellor Sajid Javid said the UK would not back down over the tax…
Presidents Trump and Macron declare a truce on digital tax dispute
Presidents Trump and Macron have declared a truce on a digital tax dispute that was ratcheting up between France and the U.S…
Tile will testify against Apple in U.S. Congressional antitrust hearing today
Tile will testify against Apple, as one of four companies testifying at the latest hearing of the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee on Friday…
Google parent Alphabet hits trillion-dollar market cap for first time
Google’s parent co. Alphabet hit the $1 trillion market capitalization milestone, making it the fourth U.S. company to hit the milestone after Apple…
France to force Apple, Netflix, Disney, others to spend 25% of local revenue on content
France is finalizing a bill to force video-on-demand services from Apple, Netflix, Disney, Amazon and others to invest at least 25% of their revenue…
Ring fired employees for watching customers’ videos
The news highlights a risk across many different tech companies: employees may abuse access granted as part of their jobs to look at customer data or information…
Over 500 million people use Google Assistant monthly
Google said its digital assistant is used by more than 500 million people every month…
Sonos lawsuit claims Google has been blatantly and knowingly copying Sonos’ patented technology
In 2013, Sonos scored a coup when Google agreed to design its music service to work easily with Sonos’s home speakers…
Amazon Fire TV crosses 40 million active users globally
Amazon.com Inc said on Monday its streaming device, Fire TV, has surpassed 40 million active users globally…
Apple’s AirPods Pro are back in stock at Amazon
Apple’s AirPods Pro are back in stock at Amazon…
Saturday Christmas shopping set U.S. single-day retail sales record
Holiday shopping set records over the weekend, with Super Saturday sales reaching $34.4 billion…
Apple open-sources portions of their HomeKit Accessory Development Kit
Apple is open-sourcing portions of its HomeKit Accessory Development Kit (ADK) in a move to accelerate development…
Exactly how out of it do Joe and Jane Sixpack have to be to trust Google more than Apple with personal data?
According to a survey commissioned by cryptographic solutions vendor nCipher, 89% of respondents agreed that encryption is important….
Apple, Google and Amazon decide to ‘play nice’ over smart home tech
The highly competitive tech giants Apple, Google and Amazon have announced they are teaming up in an effort to make smart…
Ring camera’s security tested: It’s awful
From across the other side of the world, a colleague has just accessed my Ring account, and in turn, a live-feed of a Ring camera in my apartment….
Amazon, Apple, Google, Zigbee Alliance join forces to develop open standard for smart home devices
Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance today announced a new working group that plans to develop and promote the adoption of a new, royalty-free connectivity standard…
Inexplicably, Americans trust Google more than Apple to keep their data safe
A new survey suggests that Apple may still have some work to do to gain trust of the hoi polloi…
Japan set to regulate ‘Big Tech’ more tightly to ensure transparency
Japan will tighten regulations to prevent technology giants including Google and Facebook from abusing their market power…
U.S. Attorney General Barr says Big Tech probes to be completed next year
On Tuesday, U.S. Attorney General William Barr said he expected Justice Department investigations of Big Tech – Facebook, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon, and Apple – to be completed next year…
Big tech finds an ally in President Trump in high-stakes international tax fight
President Trump is defending Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and other tech companies in the face of France’s push for a digital tax…
Why kids don’t trust Siri or Alexa
One day, Judith Danovitch overheard her son interrogating Siri on the family’s iPad…
France and EU say they’re ready to retaliate over U.S. tariff threat on $2.4 billion in imports from France
On Tuesday, France and the European Union said they are ready to retaliate if President Trump acts on a threat to impose duties of up to 100% on imports of French products worth $2.4 billion….
U.S. vows 100% tariffs on $2.4 billion in imports from France over digital tax that would harm U.S. tech firms including Apple
The U.S. government on Monday said it may slap punitive duties of up to 100% on $2.4 billion in imports from France…
Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google defend practices in U.S. congressional antitrust probe
Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google responded to questions from The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee by defending their practices and declining to answer some questions…
Existing U.S. antitrust laws can address Big Tech monopolies, DOJ antitrust chief says
The U.S. Justice Department antitrust chief said on Friday that existent U.S. antitrust laws are “flexible enough” to address harm…
Analysts: Big Tech can avoid a real crackdown because of U.S. Congress’s chaotic efforts
While Congress has Big Tech in its crosshairs, that doesn’t mean any of the bills targeting Silicon Valley actually…
Antitrust 101: Why seemingly everyone is probing Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
Although all four of Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google are US companies, they operate worldwide, and scrutiny of them is by no means limited to US regulators..
Where the 2020 U.S. presidential candidates stand on breaking up Big Tech
In the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, America’s big tech companies are being challenged on many fronts from across the political spectrum…
U.S. House antitrust probe of Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Facebook report likely by ‘first part’ of 2020
The chair of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel said on Friday that he expects to have a final report on its probe…
U.S. House investigators say they have begun receiving data from Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Facebook
The probe is one of several at the federal, state and congressional level aimed at determining if the companies use their considerable clout in the online market illegally to hurt rivals or otherwise break competition law…
Apple execs told Apple TV+ content creators not to portray China negatively
Apple’s recent actions in China are a continuation of the company’s years-long practice of appeasing Beijing. To do business in China..
Amazon Music now available on Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD
Starting today, customers can download the Amazon Music app from the App Store for Apple TV and get access to stream millions of songs and thousands of playlists and stations on Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD…
Jeff Bezos’ Amazon is flooding the hardware gaps between Apple, Microsoft, and Google
Amazon held an event just last week where 80 — that’s eight zero — products were announced…
Amazon unveils new Echo devices, including Apple HomePod and AirPods competitors
At an event in Seattle, Amazon today unveiled a series of new Alexa-enabled Echo products, ranging from a new high-end speaker to a lamp…
