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Peter Thiel: Apple’s relationship with China is a ‘real problem’
Venture capitalist, early Facebook investor, and conservative donor Peter Thiel criticized big U.S. tech companies, including Apple and…
H&M erased from Apple Maps and other apps in China
As of Thursday, H&M had been wiped off Apple Maps in China and also removed from China’s leading e-commerce, ride-hailing, daily-deals…
Apple supplier O-Film has lost ‘particular overseas client’
China’s O-Film, an Apple supplier which makes camera modules, told investors that it received a notification from a “particular overseas…
Google, Microsoft, and Qualcomm protest Nvidia’s acquisition of Arm Ltd.
Google, Microsoft, and Qualcomm are among companies protesting Nvidia $40 billion deal for Arm Ltd. and asking antitrust officials to…
Qualcomm objects to Nvidia’s proposed $40 billion Arm acquisition
Qualcomm has informed regulators around the world that the company is against Nvidia’s $40 billion acquisition of chip designer Arm …
IDC: Apple iPhone grew 34.7% YOY in China in Q4
Apple recorded its highest shipments in China since 2016 and was the only top 5 vendor that achieved a full-year growth. The iPhone 12 series…
In bid to overturn $15.7 billion Apple tax verdict, EU claims court made errors
EU antitrust bureaucrats have claimed a court made legal errors when it scrapped their 13 billion euro ($15.7B) Apple tax grab in Ireland…
Apple ramps up iPhone, iPad, Mac production shift out of China
Apple is ramping up the production of iPhones, iPads, Macs and other products outside of China, in a sign that the Cupertino Colossus…
Apple assembler Foxconn to build $270M factory in Vietnam, likely for MacBook and iPad
The government of Vietnam on Monday awarded a license to a unit of Taiwan’s Foxconn to build a $270 million plant to produce…
China’s Xiaomi devices added to U.S. military blacklist, shares plunge
The shares of China’s Xiaomi, the world’s third-largest maker of smartphones, plunged in Hong Kong trade on Friday after the U.S. DOJ…
Apple Earnings Preview: Finally, strength from the East
Apple is set to reveal fiscal Q121 earnings results on January 27th and Daniel Martins offers a preview. Sales of the iPhone 12 lineup…
Apple iPhone 12 sales in China reach nearly 18 million units in 4Q20
Sales of the iPhone 12 lineup in the China market were outperformed expectations in the fourth quarter of 2020, reaching a rather amazing…
President Trump bars U.S. transactions with eight Chinese apps
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order banning transactions with eight Chinese apps, including…
Apple removes over 46,000 apps from China App Store
On the year-end deadline for all game publishers to obtain a license in China, Apple removed 39,000 game apps on its App Store in…
Apple purges thousands of apps from China App Store amid CCP pressure
Apple is purging thousands of videogame apps from the App Store in China as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) clamps down on such content…
Apple accused of ignoring breaches of China’s temporary labor law
Apple ignored breaches of China’s temporary worker law in its supply chain for years because it was concerned about increased costs…
China’s O-Film kicked out of Apple’s supply chain over human rights violations
The U.S. Department of Commerce had early in July designated O’Film Group among a list of eleven Chinese companies that it accuses…
Stocks rally on COVID vaccine news, China factory data
Stocks again managed to rally on Tuesday on COVID vaccine news, strong November factory data from China, and continued oil production…
Apple suppliers’ China exodus won’t slow down regardless of who’s U.S. President
The splintering of the global tech supply chain spurred by an exodus from China that began during President Donald Trump’s first term…
Foxconn to shift some Apple production to Vietnam to decrease China risk
Foxconn is moving some MacBook and iPad assembly to Vietnam from China at the request of Apple as the U.S. firm diversifies production to…
India import hurdles slow import of Apple’s China-sourced iPhones, sources say
India’s tight control of quality clearances for electronic goods from China slowed the import of Apple’s new iPhone model last month and…
Apple lobbying against U.S. bill aimed at stopping Uighur forced labor in China
According to two congressional staffers, Apple lobbyists are trying to weaken a bill aimed at preventing Uighur forced labor in China…
Ahead of Apple’s iPhone 12, China smartphone shipments plunged 27%
Smartphone shipments in China plunged 27% in October compared with the same month last year, Chinese government data released on Friday…
Apple sees big sales as first post-virus Singles’ Day in China nears end
Alibaba said orders on its e-commerce platforms during the Singles’ Day shopping extravaganza in China had exceeded $70 billion by Wed…
Apple must find answers for China suppliers’ labor violations
Apple has strict rules and tough enforcement, yet suppliers like Taipei-based Pegatron are still committing labor violations…
Morgan Stanley: Lower air quality in some Chinese cities points to iPhone 12 production surge
Morgan Stanley said that tracking of air quality reports in China show an increase in industrial activity tied to iPhone 12 production …
Sales have shifted online in China as Apple’s newest iPhone 12 hits stores
Two of Apple’s latest iPhone 12 models went on sale in China on Friday, after early pre-order data showed strong consumer interest…
Apple lobbies White House for lower taxes to boost U.S. chip production
Apple has been lobbying the U.S. government on tax breaks to support domestic chip production. The company lobbied the White House…
Apple’s iPhone 12 live event stream was noticeably missing from Chinese social media
Apple’s live “Hi, Speed” event stream of the iPhone 12 unveiling last Tuesday wasn’t carried by China’s top social media and video platforms…
Millions of Chinese consumers flock to preorder Apple iPhone 12 models
Over 2.3 million Chinese consumers signing up for the Apple’s new iPhone 12 series on major e-commerce sites…
Trump administration explores restrictions on Chinese Alipay and WeChat payment platforms
Trump administration mulls possibly restricting the expansion of Ant Group’s Alipay and Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s WeChat Pay over concerns…
Trump administration presses tech supply chain to cut ties with China
The Trump administration is making a concerted effort to press non-U.S. suppliers to move production out of China …
China’s high app store fees make Apple’s look cheap
The words “app store” appeared 340 times in a report accusing Big Tech of abusing its market power. They should see China’s app stores …
Apple removes two RSS feed reader apps from China App Store
Two RSS reader apps, Reeder and Fiery Feeds, said this week that their iOS apps have been removed from Apple’s China App Store over content…
iPhone 12 assembly at China factory ramps up to 24 hours a day
The world’s largest iPhone assembly plant in Zhengzhou, China is running at full speed, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week in anticipation…
U.S. judge temporarily blocks Trump admin’s ban on new TikTok downloads
A U.S. judge has temporarily blocked a Trump administration order that was set to bar Apple’s App Store from offering TikTok for download at…
Apple: ‘We have always abided by the law in Ireland,’ as EU appeals tax grab loss
On Friday, Apple said it has always complied with Irish tax laws and that the issue which led to an EU tax order of 13 billion euros…
Apple court triumph forces tough choice for Vestager’s EU tax crusade
Apple’s July court triumph over a massive European Union tax grab is forcing antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager to make a tough choice…
Global stocks rise as China sees retail sales, industrial output growth
Global stocks rose on Tuesday, with the retail sector in the spotlight after China reported its first retail sales and, industrial output …
China would rather see TikTok U.S. close than a forced sale
Beijing opposes a forced sale of TikTok’s U.S. operations by its Chinese owner ByteDance, and would prefer to see the short video app shut…
JPMorgan: Apple’s iPhone shipments rebounding in China ahead of 5G iPhone 12
Ahead of iPhone 12, JPMorgan Chase says that an August rebound in smartphone shipments in China indicates improving momentum…
