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Apple gets ‘striking warning’ from shareholders over China app takedowns

Thursday, February 27, 2020 8:36 am3 Comments

An Apple shareholder proposal that was critical of the company’s takedowns of virtual private network (VPN) apps in China received a notably high…

Apple shareholders defeat proposal over Chinese app removals

Wednesday, February 26, 2020 4:06 pm6 Comments

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

Wednesday, February 26, 2020 12:00 pmWednesday, February 26, 20207 Comments

Apple shareholders today will vote on a proposal critical of the company’s decisions to remove apps at the request of the Chinese government…

U.S. senator blasts Apple for ‘risking compromise to authoritarianism’ in China

Wednesday, November 6, 2019 8:38 amWednesday, November 6, 201915 Comments

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

Thursday, October 24, 2019 9:00 amThursday, October 24, 201948 Comments

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

Monday, October 21, 2019 2:28 pmMonday, October 21, 20199 Comments

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

Friday, October 18, 2019 4:37 pmThursday, October 24, 201933 Comments

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

Friday, October 18, 2019 8:56 am1 Comment

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

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 11:30 am23 Comments

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

Saturday, October 12, 2019 11:30 pm28 Comments

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

Wednesday, July 18, 2018 10:01 amWednesday, July 18, 20187 Comments

Apple users in China have had their data migrated to a local cloud, run by the Red State’s mobile telecoms provider…

Telegram says Apple has prevented it from updating its messaging app since April

Thursday, May 31, 2018 8:58 amThursday, May 31, 20185 Comments

Apple has prevented the Telegram messaging service from updating globally ever since Russia ordered Apple…

Russia wants Apple to pull Telegram off Russian App Store – or else

Wednesday, May 30, 2018 3:25 pmWednesday, May 30, 201815 Comments

Apple and Russia are locked in a stand-off over the company’s App Store…

Apple removes apps with CallKit framework from the App Store in China

Monday, May 21, 2018 9:29 amMonday, May 21, 20189 Comments

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

Monday, April 16, 2018 4:55 pmMonday, April 16, 201810 Comments

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

Thursday, March 22, 2018 10:06 am35 Comments

Amnesty International says Apple Inc is creating the Orwellian future it once envisioned…

China’s internet censors ban use of the letter ‘N’

Wednesday, February 28, 2018 2:02 pmWednesday, February 28, 201832 Comments

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

Wednesday, February 28, 2018 10:26 amWednesday, February 28, 201811 Comments

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

Monday, February 26, 2018 3:44 pmMonday, February 26, 201810 Comments

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

Monday, February 26, 2018 3:04 pmMonday, February 26, 20187 Comments

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

Wednesday, February 14, 2018 9:27 am8 Comments

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

Friday, January 12, 2018 1:37 pmFriday, January 12, 201811 Comments

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

Thursday, January 11, 2018 11:47 amThursday, January 11, 201816 Comments

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

Wednesday, January 10, 2018 11:27 am25 Comments

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

Wednesday, December 13, 2017 4:16 pmWednesday, December 13, 201761 Comments

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

Monday, October 30, 2017 1:00 pmMonday, October 30, 20176 Comments

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

Friday, October 20, 2017 8:14 amFriday, October 20, 201766 Comments

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

Monday, August 14, 2017 10:55 amMonday, August 14, 201719 Comments

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

Wednesday, August 9, 2017 11:29 amWednesday, August 9, 201738 Comments

CEOs of U.S. high-tech companies have been notably silent…

As Apple’s services business grows in China, so does its censorship risk

Thursday, August 3, 2017 12:03 pmWednesday, August 9, 201725 Comments

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

Tuesday, August 1, 2017 1:00 pmTuesday, August 1, 201711 Comments

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

Monday, July 31, 2017 1:01 pmTuesday, August 1, 201719 Comments

Apple Inc.’s decision to remove VPN apps in China is…

Putin bans VPNs to stop Russians accessing prohibited websites

Monday, July 31, 2017 9:28 amMonday, July 31, 201788 Comments

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

Monday, July 31, 2017 9:00 amMonday, July 31, 20177 Comments

China’s MIIT Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced that all developers offering VPNs…

Apple removes VPN apps from China App Store

Saturday, July 29, 2017 10:01 amSaturday, July 29, 2017145 Comments

We received notification from Apple today, July 29, 2017, at roughly 04:00 GMT, that the ExpressVPN…

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