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Tag: COVID-19
U.S.-China fight over chipmaker TSMC rattles tech industry
On Friday, the Trump administration banned TSMC and rival chipmakers using American equipment from supplying China’s Huawei Technologies Co. without …
TSMC expands U.S. manufacturing with $12 billion chip fabrication plant
Last week, TSMC announced last week that is expanding its manufacturing footprint within the U.S. The new facility will be built in Arizona…
President Trump launches ‘Operation Warp Speed’ to find COVID-19 vaccine
President Trump announced “Operation Warp Speed” — a new initiative that is aimed at developing an effective COVID-19 vaccine …
Apple helps suppliers reconfigure factories to mitigate COVID-19 spread
In Apple’s annual supplier responsibility report released Thursday, the company said it’s helping suppliers to reconfigure factories in order to…
Apple supplier TSMC to build multibillion-dollar chip plant in Arizona with Trump admin backing
In a potential realignment of global trade, TSMC is planning to build a multibillion-dollar chip plant in Arizona with Trump administration backing…
Stanford studying if Apple Watch can detect COVID-19
Stanford Medicine is trying to find out if information from wearable devices, like Apple Watch, can be used to detect infectious diseases like COVID-19 …
U.S. Senator’s iPhone, iCloud data seized in probe of stock trades
U.S. federal agents seized a cellphone belonging to a prominent Republican senator on Wednesday night as part of the Justice Department’s investigation…
Utah COVID-19 contact tracing app rejects Apple-Google approach
The state of Utah is one of the first U.S. states to endorse a COVID-19 contact tracing app. The app uses Bluetooth and GPS data and was built by…
EU: Use of COVID-19 contact tracing apps should be voluntary
As countries rush to develop smartphone-based digital contact tracing apps, the European Commission will urge EU governments on Wednesday to use…
Apple plans to return more staff to offices in restart after COVID-19 pause
While other tech companies continueg work-from-home policies through at least the end of 2020 due to the COVID-19 outbreak, Apple plans to soon start…
With Apple stock, Wall Street is already thinking post-coronavirus
The COVID-19 pandemic hurt Apple’s fiscal Q2 sales and earnings but Wall Street analysts already are thinking post-coronavirus when it comes to Apple stock…
Nasdaq Composite jumps for sixth straight day, longest winning streak this year
For the sixth straight day, the Nasdaq Composite Index rose as shares of major technology companies added to the comeback rally. The strength in big…
Apple retail store reopenings come loaded with precautions, limitations
Apple is beginning to open its retail stores in the U.S. and around the globe, but these reopenings come loaded with precautions and limitations, so…
Tim Cook joins ‘Commencement: Speeches For The Class Of 2020’ podcast
iHeartMedia today announced that Apple CEO Tim Cook has joined “Commencement: Speeches for the Class of 2020” – a one-of-a-kind special podcast event…
Nearly 80 cell towers burned in UK over 5G conspiracy theories
Almost 80 cell towers have reportedly been burned down in the UK due to coronavirus conspiracy theories that blame the COVID-19 outbreak on 5G tech…
Stocks jump despite Great Depression-like U.S. job losses
After data on historic U.S. job losses due to the COVID-19 crisis showed they were slightly fewer than feared, major U.S. stock indexes jumped on Friday…
Apple to begin reopening stores in United States next week
In the first resumption of physical retail operations since Apple shuttered all U.S. stores in mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Apple said Friday…
Apple COO Jeff Williams ‘optimistic’ about post-coronavirus US economy
Apple Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams is “optimistic” about a U.S. economy recovery from the COVID-19 reaction as businesses begin to reopen…
Apple Retail Stores to reopen in Germany on May 11th
Apple is expanding on recent moves to reopen retail stores in South Korea, Austria, and Australia. The company will reopen its 15 stores across Germany …
Apple stock is recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic quite nicely
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted Apple’s supply chain, initially caused the price of Apple stock to plunge, shut down the company’s stores, forced…
What happens when you visit a newly reopened Apple store
Apple has reopened 21 of its 22 Apple stores Thursday in Australia after they were shut for nearly two months in response to the COVID-19 outbreak…
Loose European coalition forms on coronavirus contact tracing
A loose European coalition is forming around an approach to using smartphone technology for coronavirus contact tracing. Supporters of the decentralized…
UK’s NHS COVID-19 contact-tracing app is fatally flawed and likely illegal
The United Kingdom’s NHS COVID-19 contact-tracing app is fatally flawed and likely illegal. “Britain is sleepwalking into another coronavirus disaster…
Stock market jumps as lockdowns ease, U.S. states reopen for business
The U.S. stock market’s main indexes rallied on Tuesday as a number of countries and U.S. states eased coronavirus-induced lockdowns and restrictions…
Dow jumps 350 points on hopes of U.S. economy reopening
On Tuesday, stocks rose sharply on investors’s hopes for the start of the reopening of the U.S. economy. Oil prices increased for a fifth straight day…
France accuses Apple of undermining the country’s ‘StopCovid’ app
France accused Apple of undermining its effort by refusing to help make its iPhones work with the government’s planned “StopCovid” contact-tracing app …
Stock market snaps two-day slump, lifted by Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon
U.S. stocks ended higher on Monday as increases in large tech and internet companies and oil price gains outweighed concerns sparked by fresh U.S.-China…
Apple, Google ban use of location tracking in contact tracing apps
Apple and Alphabet Inc’s Google on Monday said they would ban the use of location tracking in apps that use a new contact tracing system on which the two firms
Micron exec: Smartphone demand in China is starting to come back
Micron’s executive vice president of global operations Manish Bhatia is starting to see some smartphone demand coming back in China, post-COVID-19 lockdown.
France continues to insist on centralized COVID-19 contact tracing while Apple refuses to budge
The government of France continues to insist on centralized COVID-19 contact tracing while Apple refuses to budge. France’s state-supported “StopCOVID” app…
Expect Apple to release iOS 13.5 soon
Apple this week released iOS 13.5 beta 3 to developers and public beta users. iOS 13.5 beta includes three major changes, including laying the foundation…
Apple data shows shelter-in-place is ending, regardless of government directives
Regardless of government COVID-19 coronavirus directives, Apple data shows shelter-in-place is ending and re-opening is underway…
CDC’s digital contact tracing criteria opens door for Apple-Google approach
A new document published by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) outlines what it has determined as the critical features for digital contact tracing apps …
Apple’s 2H20 growth rates depend on a healthy macroeconomic recovery
New products, stimulus and remote work/learning purchases are currently boosting Apple’s sales, but a healthy macroeconomic recovery will…
Apple stock stays in buy zone after COVID-19-infected quarterly report
Apple beat the oddsmakers with a better-than-expected March-quarter report on Thursday. But Apple stock dipped Friday amid a down market…
Anti-5G anger sparks wave of arson attacks across Europe
Conspiracy theory-fueled opposition to 5G network technology percolated online for years. Then the coronavirus outbreak hit, sparking arson attacks…
Apple earnings: COVID-19 effects, buybacks, dividends, and more in focus
We’re less than two hours away from what promises to be an historic Apple earnings report and conference call with Apple having closed all of their…
Best Buy will start to reopen with appointments for in-store consultations
During the COVID-19 outbreak, Best Buy temporarily shut stores and switched to a curbside pickup model. Starting in May, Best Buy will reopen to allow…
Most Americans are not willing or able to use a contact tracing app
Apple and Google have released the first version of their COVID-19 contact tracing API (they’ve rebranded it as “exposure notification”) in a new…
Apple, Google release early COVID-19 contact tracing API to developers
Apple and Google have released the first version of their COVID-19 contact tracing API, which they’ve since rebranded as “exposure notification.” This is a…
Cellebrite pitches governments iPhone spy tools for coronavirus contact tracing
Makers of smartphone hacking tools are pitching, and in some cases already working with, governments on iPhone spy tools for coronavirus contact tracing …
