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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…
Google says ‘quantum supremacy’ achieved in new age super computer; IBM disputes claim
Google says it has achieved a breakthrough in quantum computing research…
Apple iPhone 11’s Night mode triumphs: Google’s Pixel 4 is no match for the iPhone 11 in low light
Apple’s Night mode makes Google’s Night Shot look like Night Shit…
U.S. House antitrust probe of Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Facebook report likely by ‘first part’ of 2020
The chair of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel said on Friday that he expects to have a final report on its probe…
Massive security hole: Google Pixel 4 Face Unlock works if eyes are shut
Google has confirmed the Pixel 4 smartphone’s Face Unlock system can allow access to a person’s device…
U.S. House investigators say they have begun receiving data from Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Facebook
The probe is one of several at the federal, state and congressional level aimed at determining if the companies use their considerable clout in the online market illegally to hurt rivals or otherwise break competition law…
Google’s new Pixel 4 is an overpriced disappointment; get a real iPhone instead
Google today announced the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL smartphones at an anticlimactic event in New York…
iPhone users could get £750 from Google ‘illegal’ tracking of data, including race, health, politics and sexuality
Google siphoned personal data, including information on physical and mental heath, political affiliations, sexuality and sexual interests from iPhone users…
Jeff Bezos’ Amazon is flooding the hardware gaps between Apple, Microsoft, and Google
Amazon held an event just last week where 80 — that’s eight zero — products were announced…
iPhone users warned to update as 1.1 billion eGobbler malvertising attack is confirmed
eGobbler, the prolific threat actor behind malvertising campaigns with a history of compromising adverts in their hundreds of millions in a matter of hours…
Faulty Google Chrome update makes Mac Pros in Hollywood grind to a halt
A serious data corruption issue that resulted in Mac Pro workstations being rendered unusable at a number of Hollywood studios Monday…
Following Apple, as ever, Google to launch subscription-based game service
Google, owned by Alphabet is launching a subscription-based mobile game service this week. Known as Play Pass, the service allows users of Android devices…
Apple’s iPhone 11 Night mode trounces Pixel 3 XL, Galaxy S10+, and OnePlus 6T low-light photography
Now that Apple’s finally debuted Night mode for the iPhone 11, it’s time to compare it to the Android competition…
What can Google do to compete with the Apple Watch? Not much
I, along with pretty much every other reporter who watches Android closely, have been bemoaning the sorry state of smartwatch options for Android users…
U.S. states launch antitrust probe of Alphabet Inc’s Google; advertising business in focus
Attorneys general from 48 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have opened an antitrust probe into big tech companies…
U.S. states kick off antitrust probe expected to focus on Google
Once lauded as engines of economic growth, the social media, search and e-commerce giants have sparked anger amid allegations of abusing outsized market power and lapses such as privacy breaches…
Feds order Apple and Google to hand over names of 10,000+ users of a gun app
It’s an unprecedented move: Never before has a case been disclosed in which American investigators demanded personal data of users of a single app from Apple and Google…
U.S. Congressional antitrust panel to discuss Big Tech competition
Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), the chairman and top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel, said the hearing was scheduled for Sept. 24…
Why Apple’s iPhone drives the future of mobile silicon and Google’s Pixel doesn’t
The technology to drive advancements in silicon — designing those chips to be smaller, faster and more powerful — is extraordinarily expensive…
Woz: Apple should’ve split up a long time ago, ‘Big Tech’ is too big
Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak comments on the antitrust scrutiny of big tech companies…
Former Google engineer at center of Waymo-Uber case charged with stealing trade secrets
Anthony Levandowski, the former Google engineer and serial entrepreneur who was at the center of a trade secrets lawsuit between Uber and Waymo…
Maps shows Apple’s stick-to-itiveness, highlighting Google’s lack of perseverance
What Apple did in response to all of the negative press around Apple Maps? They didn’t give up, they got to work, kept at it for years, and are still…
Apple, Mozilla, Google move to block Kazakh surveillance system
The former Soviet Central Asian nation routinely blocks websites and applications used by its critics, including Facebook and Youtube, for short periods of time…
‘Sign In with Apple’ eliminates the current mess of login methods
“Sign In with Apple” makes it easy for users to log into apps and websites using their Apple ID. Instead of filling out forms, verifying email addresses, and choosing new passwords, users can…
