For years, Facebook-parent Meta Platform’s profits depended on trampling it users’ privacy, but Apple put a stop to that with its…
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Apple hires former Facebook exec as its new chief information officer
Apple has hired a startup founder and former Facebook executive to run its information systems group after departures in that department…
Republican U.S. House likely to investigate Facebook, Google, Big Tech over censorship
Republicans are increasingly likely to secure a majority in the U.S. House of representatives, putting the GOP in control of House…
Facebook-parent Meta no longer in the top 20 most-valuable U.S. companies
A year ago, Facebook was among the five most valuable U.S. companies, with a market cap over $1 trillion. Now the company, renamed Meta…
Apple’s Federighi: Privacy and advertising can coexist
Apple’s software chief Craig Federighi said advertising and privacy can coexist as the company’s push to give users control of their privacy…
Mark Zuckerberg takes thinly veiled shot at Apple; implies Apple’s AR/VR headset will be very expensive
Meta Platforms, née Facebook, recently announced the Meta Quest Pro, its $1,500 mixed reality headset, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently…
Facebook warns 1 million users about stolen usernames, passwords
Facebook-parent Meta Platforms on Friday said it would notify roughly 1 million Facebook users that their account credentials may…
Beleaguered Facebook scrambles to escape stock’s death spiral as users flee, sales plummet
Beleaguered Facebook-parent Meta Platforms is trading at its lowest since early 2019, and the stock is one of the worst performers…
If you value privacy, avoid these five apps
Are the apps you’re using protecting your privacy or are they collecting and sharing a pretty hefty portion of your private information with…
Facebook-parent Meta sued for bypassing Apple privacy rules to track users
Facebook-parent Meta Platform was sued on Wednesday for allegedly building a secret work-around to privacy safeguards that Apple launched…
U.S. antitrust bill on brink of defeat
Legislation pushed by some in the U.S. Congress claiming to rein in the nation’s biggest internet companies is on the brink of defeat…
Privacy-focused Apple is killing Meta’s advertising revenue
Apple’s privacy-focused changes to its operating system – App Tracking Transparency – that wiped out an estimated $10 billion…
Australia demands Apple, others share anti-CSAM steps, threatens fines
Australia sent s legal letter to Apple demanding they share their strategies for stamping out Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)…
Apple collects the least user data, Google amasses the most – study
Apple collects the least amount of private user data from its users, with Google, Twitter, Amazon, and Facebook collecting more personal…
Marketers cut back on ad spending after Apple gave users their privacy back
Marketers are cutting back on ad spending due to Apple’s App Tracking Transparency privacy framework that gave users their privacy back…
Clock running out on U.S. Congress’ antitrust bill targeting Big Tech
In a setback for supporters in the U.S. House and Senate who had been pushing for a vote before the midterm elections, Congress is set…
U.S. Big Tech antitrust legislation flounders as Schumer expresses doubts
Antitrust legislation aimed at “Big Tech” companies appears stymied after U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told a group…
Tech antitrust bill seeks to regulate Big Tech, change the Internet
U.S. lawmakers are eyeing votes prior to the midterm elections in November on antitrust legislation (named by supporters…
Facing stalemate, backers of U.S. big tech antitrust bill push for vote
Facing a potential stalemate, U.S. lawmakers House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D., N.Y.), Rep. David Cicilline (D., R.I.)…
Analyst: Apple’s brand is worth $1 trillion. Meta’s is not.
Apple this week reclaimed its title as the world’s most valuable brand, last held in 2015, according to a new survey from Kantar BrandZ…
Facebook parent Meta pulls plug on dual camera Apple Watch rival
Facebook parent company Meta has pulled the plug on development of an Apple Watch rival smartwatch designed with dual cameras…
U.S. Senate likely to pass bill to bar Apple, Google, other tech firms from favoring themselves in searches
Lawmakers from both parties said on Wednesday they had the Senate votes needed to pass legislation aimed at reining in Apple…
Vulnerable U.S. Senate Democrats back off bill seeking Big Tech crackdown
A bipartisan legislative effort to rein in the nation’s largest tech companies is facing fresh resistance from a faction of Senate Democrats…
Apple not benefiting from privacy changes that kneecapped Facebook
Apple released a new report on Tuesday which refutes accusations that it profits from App Tracking Transparency privacy framework…
Apple calls out Facebook parent Meta for planning to take nearly 50% cut from metaverse sales
Apple is calling out the hypocrisy of Facebook parent Meta Platforms’s intent to take a nearly 50% cut of digital asset sales within…
After criticizing Apple’s 15%-30% App Store cut, Meta plans to take 47.5% in metaverse fees
After criticizing the 15%-30% fee Apple charges for certain types of sales and subscriptions in the App Store, Meta Platforms will charge…
Apple’s privacy features will cost Facebook out $12.8 billion this year
Apple’s App Tracking Transparency will cost Meta Platforms subsidiary Facebook $12.8 billion in 2022, research firm Lotame estimates…
Woz: Facebook is my least favorite ‘of all big tech’
Steve “Woz” Wozniak said that he and his wife both recently deactivated their Facebook accounts over data privacy concerns…
Artificial Intelligence trader picks Apple and Nvidia, dumps Alphabet and Meta
Apple and Nvidia were two stocks singled out for gains in March by a fund with holdings picked by artificial intelligence, which also…
Investor sues Meta (Facebook) for minimizing Apple Privacy tools’ impact on ad tracking
According to a proposed class-action lawsuit, Facebook-parent Meta Platforms falsely reassured investors that the impacts of Apple’s…
Beleaguered Facebook keeps whining that Apple gave users their privacy back
Societal cancer and, now, finally, rightfully beleaguered, Facebook continues whining publicly, with stupendous tone deafness, about Apple …
Facebook-parent Meta falls off the list of the world’s 10 most valuable companies
Shares of Meta (FB), parent to societal cancer Facebook, slid past a major milestone on Thursday when the company unceremoniously fell off…
Publisher trade group backs U.S. Big Tech antitrust bills opposed by Apple
A group representing publishers wrote to leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday to back two bills targeting Big Tech, incl…
Meta’s threat to pull Facebook and Instagram from Europe seen as gift by German and French ministers
Meta Platforms’s threat to pull Facebook and Instagram from Europe because of blocked talks over privacy rules is being met with enthusiasm…
Facebook stock plummets 26%, sheds more than $230 billion in market value in single day
Facebook parent Meta’s stock plunged some 26%, more than $230 billion in market value on Thursday after the company forecast weaker…
Apple’s user privacy controls damage Facebook’s ad tracking biz
On Wednesday, Facebook owner Meta Platforms posted disastrous quarterly results, blaming privacy safeguards for users from Apple…
Meta shares plunge as Facebook owner misses on earnings, forecast
Facebook subsidiary owner Meta Platforms shares plunged more than 18% after the closing bell on Wednesday as the societal cancer missed…
Apple spent $6.5 million on lobbying Washington D.C. in 2021
Apple spent $6.5 million last year, pretty much in line with its lobbying outlay from 2020, despite an increasingly hostile climate in D.C…
Apple won’t lose itself in the ‘metaverse’ despite its AR/VR headset plans
Apple is not planning to get involved in the “metaverse”, despite its widely reported plans to launch augmented and virtual reality headsets…
Meta pulls the plug on its AR/VR operating system, settles for Android instead
Meta (née Facebook), has axed its current efforts to develop an operating system for AR and VR devices, and wil instead settle for Android …
Internet Association shuttered as Big Tech splinters
Growing tensions between Apple, Amazon, Alphabet (Google), Meta (Facebook), and Microsoft, lie behind the death of the Internet Association…
Americans trust Google and Amazon more than Apple to handle their personal data
According to a Washington Post-Schar School poll conducted November 4-22, 2021, Americans trust Google and Amazon more than Apple…
