Essential Products, an Android smartphone peddler founded by disgraced Google executive Andy Rubin is shutting down, the comnpany confirmed Wednesday…
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President Trump praises trillion dollar tech companies, calling them MAGA
President Trump today heaped praise on the four big tech companies with trillion dollar plus market caps, the trillion dollar MAGA club…
Apple employees donate more to Bernie Sanders in U.S. presidential race
Apple employees donate more to Bernie Sanders than any other presidential candidate, with a total of $53,626 going to Bernie Sanders in the Q419…
Avast antivirus program harvested user data, sold to Google, Microsoft
The Avast antivirus program used by hundreds of millions of people around the world is selling highly sensitive web browsing data to many large companies…
Which company is next to join trillion-dollar market cap club?
Apple established the trillion-dollar market cap club, followed (as usual) by perpetual Apple-follower Microsoft. Last week, Google parent Alphabet Inc…
U.S. presidential candidates’ positions on breaking up Big Tech
In the preamble to the U.S. 2020 presidential election, many Democratic White House contenders have argued in favor of either breaking up or tightening…
Apple’s iOS 13 drops location data advertisers collect by 68%
Since the launch of iOS 13 last fall, the amount of background location data that marketers collect from Apple iPhone users has dropped by 68% …
Apple’s Intelligent Tracking Protection could track Safari users
Details of multiple security flaws in Apple’s Safari web browser that could track Safari users has been disclosed by Google researchers…
UK vows new tax on tech firms will proceed despite U.S. pressure
US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has threatened new tariffs on UK carmakers after UK Chancellor Sajid Javid said the UK would not back down over the tax…
Tile will testify against Apple in U.S. Congressional antitrust hearing today
Tile will testify against Apple, as one of four companies testifying at the latest hearing of the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee on Friday…
Google parent Alphabet hits trillion-dollar market cap for first time
Google’s parent co. Alphabet hit the $1 trillion market capitalization milestone, making it the fourth U.S. company to hit the milestone after Apple…
Hostile to customers and in thrall to China, Apple doesn’t deserve a pass
Monopolists are endlessly inventing ways of extracting rents from their customers and suppliers. In fact, the saying works even outside the free-for-data model of Facebook and Google…
8 things Apple’s iOS does better than Android
There are many things that Apple’s iOS does better than Google’s Android…
Could Apple sidestep 5G with satellites?
If Apple commercializes the technology, at least one analyst believes the result “could have some pretty serious implications” for the world’s telecom operators…
Sonos lawsuit claims Google has been blatantly and knowingly copying Sonos’ patented technology
In 2013, Sonos scored a coup when Google agreed to design its music service to work easily with Sonos’s home speakers…
Apple faces harsh regulatory environment in Russia in 2020
Under a piece of legislation that comes into effect July 1, all computers and mobile devices sold in Russia will have to have preinstalled Russian software…
The decade that YouTube changed TV
Taking over TV is quite the coup for a platform that got its start just 15 years ago above a pizzeria in San Mateo, California…
Apple’s space satellite program ramps up; aims to beam data directly to devices
Apple has a group working on space satellites, antennae, and wireless technology as the company looks for new ways to beam data directly to Apple devices…
Apple open-sources portions of their HomeKit Accessory Development Kit
Apple is open-sourcing portions of its HomeKit Accessory Development Kit (ADK) in a move to accelerate development…
Exactly how out of it do Joe and Jane Sixpack have to be to trust Google more than Apple with personal data?
According to a survey commissioned by cryptographic solutions vendor nCipher, 89% of respondents agreed that encryption is important….
Apple, Google and Amazon decide to ‘play nice’ over smart home tech
The highly competitive tech giants Apple, Google and Amazon have announced they are teaming up in an effort to make smart…
Amazon, Apple, Google, Zigbee Alliance join forces to develop open standard for smart home devices
Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance today announced a new working group that plans to develop and promote the adoption of a new, royalty-free connectivity standard…
Inexplicably, Americans trust Google more than Apple to keep their data safe
A new survey suggests that Apple may still have some work to do to gain trust of the hoi polloi…
Japan set to regulate ‘Big Tech’ more tightly to ensure transparency
Japan will tighten regulations to prevent technology giants including Google and Facebook from abusing their market power…
Apple and Google named in US lawsuit over child cobalt mining deaths in Congo
A landmark legal case has been launched against the world’s largest tech companies by Congolese families who say their children were killed or maimed…
U.S. Attorney General Barr says Big Tech probes to be completed next year
On Tuesday, U.S. Attorney General William Barr said he expected Justice Department investigations of Big Tech – Facebook, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon, and Apple – to be completed next year…
U.S. Senators threaten Apple and Facebook with mandated encryption backdoors
U.S. senators grilled Apple Inc and Facebook Inc executives over their encryption practices on Tuesday and threatened to regulate the technology unless…
Big tech finds an ally in President Trump in high-stakes international tax fight
President Trump is defending Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and other tech companies in the face of France’s push for a digital tax…
Why Apple is trusted more than Google
Apple’s business model allows it to focus on prioritizing user privacy over selling ad targeting. Google gives away its software and collect data from users…
Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google defend practices in U.S. congressional antitrust probe
Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google responded to questions from The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee by defending their practices and declining to answer some questions…
Privacy and consumer advocates: U.S. should block Google’s acquisition of Fitbit
Google knows more about us than any other company, and it should not be allowed to add yet another way to track our every move…
Yet another reason not to buy a Fitbit: Google’s secret ‘Project Nightingale’ gathers personal health data on millions of Americans
Google is engaged in a secret project with one of the country’s largest health-care systems to collect and crunch the detailed personal health information of millions of Americans across 21 states…
Google’s last Pixel flagship phone was a flop
How many Pixel 3 devices did Google sell in the past year? You won’t find that sales total broken out in the company’s quarterly financial reports…
Analysts: Big Tech can avoid a real crackdown because of U.S. Congress’s chaotic efforts
While Congress has Big Tech in its crosshairs, that doesn’t mean any of the bills targeting Silicon Valley actually…
Roku shares plummet 15% on widening loss
Roku Inc. shares were creamed 15% in after-hours trading Wednesday after it reported a third-quarter loss nearly triple that of a year ago…
Fitbit is doomed: Why everything Google buys turns to garbage
Late last week, Google announced its intention to purchase Fitbit, the beleaguered health tracker manufacturer…
U.S. iPhone users more than twice as likely to own a smartwatch as Android users
Consumer Intelligence Research Partners today released analysis of the results from its research on smartphones and smartwatches…
Antitrust 101: Why seemingly everyone is probing Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
Although all four of Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google are US companies, they operate worldwide, and scrutiny of them is by no means limited to US regulators..
Fitbit: Apple Watch roadkill
Fitbit, Inc. today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Google LLC…
Alphabet buys Fitbit for $2.1 billion
Fitbit, Inc. today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Google LLC for $7.35 per share in cash..
Where the 2020 U.S. presidential candidates stand on breaking up Big Tech
In the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, America’s big tech companies are being challenged on many fronts from across the political spectrum…
Google owner Alphabet in bid to acquire Fitbit
Google owner Alphabet Inc has made an offer to acquire U.S. wearable device maker Fitbit Inc…
