An Apple shareholder proposal that was critical of the company’s takedowns of virtual private network (VPN) apps in China received a notably high…
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Apple shareholders defeat proposal over Chinese app removals
At the Apple shareholders meeting on Wednesday, voters defeated a proposal critical of the company’s removal of apps at the request of the Chinese…
Apple faces shareholder vote over Chinese app removals
Apple shareholders today will vote on a proposal critical of the company’s decisions to remove apps at the request of the Chinese government…
Apple declines to testify at second congressional hearing probing tech’s ties to China
Apple and TikTok have each declined a request from U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) to testify at a March congressional hearing that would have probed…
U.S. senator blasts Apple for ‘risking compromise to authoritarianism’ in China
A key U.S. senator warned that Apple and the Chinese-owned music-video app TikTok are threats to international data security…
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz blasts Apple, ‘desperate to make a buck in China,’ for prioritizing profits over principles
I don’t think U.S. companies should be willing to aid and abet oppression and censorship by the Communist government…
Apple CEO Tim Cook joins influential Beijing university board as company’s China woes continue
Apple CEO Tim Cook has been appointed as the chairman of the advisory board at Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management in Beijing, a role which offers access to state leaders…
Ted Cruz, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez among U.S. lawmakers urging Apple to restore Hong Kong police activity tracking app
First Apple pulled the HKmap Live app. Then they reinstated it. Then China criticized Apple, warning of “consequences,” so Apple CEO Tim Cook quickly kowtowed and pulled it again…
Apple CEO Cook meets China regulator after pulling Hong Kong police activity tracking app
Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook met the chief of China’s market regulator in Beijing on Thursday, the Chinese agency said…
Apple accedes to China’s despotic demands
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook has said that “companies should have values, just like people do.”
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..
Chinese Apple iCloud accounts are now based in a state-run cloud
Apple users in China have had their data migrated to a local cloud, run by the Red State’s mobile telecoms provider…
Apple removes apps with CallKit framework from the App Store in China
It’s been nearly a year since Apple began removing all VPN apps from the App Store in China…
UBS: Apple’s iPhone unlikely to recover damaged Chinese marketshare
CEO Tim Cook once envisioned China as Apple’s next big market, set to eclipse even the U.S. in revenue…
Amnesty International accuses Apple of betraying Chinese iCloud users
Amnesty International says Apple Inc is creating the Orwellian future it once envisioned…
China’s internet censors ban use of the letter ‘N’
The Chinese government demonstrated just how much power it has over the opinions of its billion-strong population…
Apple is under fire for moving iCloud data to China; Amnesty International blasts move
Apple’s latest move in China has privacy advocates and human rights groups worried…
Apple moves to store iCloud keys in China, raising human rights fears
When Apple Inc begins hosting Chinese users’ iCloud accounts in a new Chinese data center…
Apple’s China lesson: Think different, but not too different
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook will co-chair the Chinese government’s showcase global business forum…
Apple in talks for first order from a Chinese chipmaker
Apple is in talks with state-backed Yangtze Memory Technologies to buy NAND flash chips…
Apple warns users who created Apple IDs overseas on dodging China’s new data law
China introduced a new cyber security law on June 1 that imposes tougher controls over data…
How U.S. iCloud users can ensure their data isn’t migrated to state-owned servers in China
While Apple yesterday warned Chinese customers that their data would be migrated to local servers…
Apple sets date to turn over cloud operations to a state-owned data center in China
Apple Inc. said it will turn over its cloud operations in China to a state-owned local partner…
U.S. Senate Republican Marco Rubio hits Tim Cook for kowtowing to China
Apple and Tim Cook are again under fire for their relationship with the Chinese government…
Apple’s Cook, Facebook’s Zuckerberg meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing
Xi was speaking to business leaders and officials…
U.S. Senators Ted Cruz and Patrick Leahy blast Apple CEO Tim Cook for removing VPN apps from App Store in China
U.S. Senator’s Ted Cruz (R, Texas) and Patrick Leahy (D, Vermont) have penned a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook…
Why Apple CEO Tim Cook capitulates to China: Money and power
Apple has amassed significant power and billions of dollars from its deals in China, a country often firmly opposed to the values the company’s CEO regularly espouses in the United States…
China’s dream is Apple’s nightmare: U.S. tech firms face risks as they quietly bow to China’s censorship and technology demands
CEOs of U.S. high-tech companies have been notably silent…
As Apple’s services business grows in China, so does its censorship risk
Apple Inc. took a public-opinion beating after it removed anticensorship tools from its China app store…
Joining Apple, Amazon’s China cloud service bows to censors
Another major American technology company is moving to implement the country’s tough restrictions on online content…
There are two sides to Apple’s China story
Apple Inc.’s decision to remove VPN apps in China is…
Putin bans VPNs to stop Russians accessing prohibited websites
President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that prohibits technology that provides access to websites banned in Russia…
Apple issues statement regarding removal of VPN apps from China App Store
China’s MIIT Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced that all developers offering VPNs…
Apple removes VPN apps from China App Store
We received notification from Apple today, July 29, 2017, at roughly 04:00 GMT, that the ExpressVPN…
Apple creates new managing director role for China
Apple wants China to know they’re serious…
Warring kings and fire-breathing dragons drive Apple growth in China, even as iPhone sales stall
Apple Inc has a new China growth driver…
In bid to improve censorship, China to summon Apple execs to discuss stricter App Store oversight
Apple has said it follows local law about what content is illegal and must be censored…
Will Apple CEO Tim Cook stand up to China over App Store censorship?
Chinese authorities plan to question Apple about video streaming services available…
Beijing cyber regulators to summon Apple over live streaming apps
Internet regulators in China’s capital plan to summon Apple to urge the American firm…
