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Slavish copier Samsung appeals $539 million verdict for peddling Apple iPhone knockoffs
The jury may have made a decision, but the fight isn’t over…
Apple and Google rank amongst the best value stocks in the tech industry
It is no secret that the information technology sector has been one of the favorites with investors…
Apple and Google are heading in the same direction, but on different paths
Developer conference season is behind us, leaving in its wake a huge pile of software updates to come…
Apple pummels privacy-trampling Facebook
In the early days of Apple, of course, the company’s Evil Empires were IBM and Microsoft…
Facebook confirms sharing users’ personal data with Chinese companies
Facebook Inc said Tuesday it has data sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese companies…
Apple needs to advertise their strong commitment to privacy
The greatest commercial in Apple history — perhaps all history — did not show an Apple product…
Apple borks Facebook’s pervasive personal data-harvesting operation
Apple’s software-focused event on Monday was a momentous moment — for Facebook…
Apple requested ‘zero’ personal data in deals with Facebook – CEO Tim Cook
“We’ve never been in the data business,” Apple CEO Tim Cook told NPR on Monday…
Facebook CEO blasts Apple’s latest privacy protections as ‘cute virtue signaling’
Apple is taking active steps to block Facebook’s data collection practices…
Facebook gave personal data to 60 companies including Apple, Amazon and Samsung
Facebook struck agreements allowing phone and other device makers access to vast amounts of its users’ personal information…
Amazon, Facebook and Google tiptoe toward monopoly, but not Apple
Imagine a not-too-distant future in which trustbusters force Facebook to sell off Instagram and WhatsApp…
Apple’s $539 million in damages is a ‘huge loss’ for iPhone knockoff peddler Samsung
Samsung Electronics Co. took a gamble when it appealed a finding it infringed Apple Inc.’s smartphone design patents…
Mark Zuckerberg’s worldwide Facebook apology tour hits a snag in the EU
Turns out “sorry” doesn’t seem to work as much for the social network’s chief anymore…
Alphabet Inc’s Google could face $4.3 billion claim in U.K. iPhone privacy case
iPhone users suing Google over data-collection claims may be seeking as much as 3.2 billion pounds ($4.29 billion)…
Apple’s HomePod makes a small dent in smart speaker market in debut quarter
Apple officially jumped into the smart speaker market in the first quarter with the HomePod…
What Google isn’t telling us about its ‘Duplex’ AI demo
Google made headlines by demonstrating an AI-powered voice assistant that made haircut and restaurant reservations…
Strategy Analytics: Apple shipped 600,000 HomePods in Q1 for 6% share of smart speaker market
Amazon and Google accounted for a dominant 70% share of global smart speaker shipments in Q1 2018 although their combined share has fallen from 84% in Q4 2017 and 94% in the year ago quarter…
Here’s what Apple sent when I asked for all the data they had on me
Last week, I asked Apple to give me all the data it’s collected on me since I first became a customer…
Tim Bajarin: Focus on services is critical to Apple’s long-term survival
It’s becoming clear that those selling products and services, such as Apple, have perhaps the most sustainable models…
Google employees quitting over Pentagon drone project
After around 3,000 Google employees rebelled against Google’s involvement in the Pentagon’s Project Maven AI program…
Bipartisan ‘Secure Data Act’ would make it illegal for U.S. government to demand backdoors
A new bill introduced in Congress gets encryption right…
How to delete the search, browsing and viewing history Google keeps on you
Google is making it easier to see the search, browsing and YouTube viewing history it keeps on you…
Apple leaves overseas cash out of its latest quarterly report
A key figure disappeared from Apple Inc.’s latest quarterly report….
Amazon’s Alexa, Google’s Assistant, and Apple’s Siri can hear this hidden command, but you can’t
Over the past two years, researchers have begun demonstrating that they can send hidden commands that are undetectable to the human ear to Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant…
Google’s latest Android version tries to make Android phones more like Apple’s iPhone X
Google has a new version of Android coming to your phone with features…
Chamath Palihapitiya: Apple is a ‘productive cash machine’ but probably not so innovative now
Chamath Palihapitiya told CNBC on Wednesday he sees Apple as a massive generator of cash…
How to remove third-party accounts like Facebook from your Mac
With the release of iOS 11, Apple nixed its built-in integration with Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and Vimeo…
Apple responds to personal data request with 9MB file: The personal data archives from Facebook and Google were 881MB and 243MB respectively
Following Facebook’s acknowledgement that it had let a political ad targeting firm scrape the personal data of millions of users…
WSJ tries really hard to gin up negative Apple news and fails laughably
The licensing fees that Google-parent Alphabet Inc. pays to Apple Inc. to direct traffic to its search business…
Apple’s Q218 earnings most important (and impressive) metric
On May 1st, Apple announced its financial results for the last quarter…
Cambridge Analytica shuts down after Facebook user-data scandal
Cambridge Analytica, a data firm that worked for President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign…
Why Apple should release Messages for Android
In light of last week’s news that Google is backing a next-gen version of text messaging with iMessage-like features…
Study: Google Assistant most accurate, Alexa most improved virtual assistant
Two more studies analyzing interactions with voice search and virtual assistants were released this week…
Americans place Apple distant third behind Amazon and Google in ‘positive impact on society’ survey
Some 20 percent of Americans believe Amazon is having the most positive impact on society…
EU antitrust chief says investigation of Google’s Android, AdSense is advancing
Investigations into how Google may be using its Android smartphone operating system…
What if China bans Apple to retaliate for U.S. sanctions against Huawei, ZTE?
During Apple’s most recent financial earnings call in February, CEO Tim Cook said that the U.S. company…
Beleaguered Facebook heading down a troubled path
The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica saga is not going away quietly, underscored by Mark Zuckerberg’s…
Apple’s App Store is destroying Google Play in services and subscriptions
Apple’s U.S. customers installed 45 new iPhone apps in 2017, a growth of 10 percent over last year…
Facebook points fingers Google, Amazon and Twitter for also harvesting user data
Facebook wants users to know that it’s not the only one tracking their every move on the internet…
Beleaguered Facebook may face billions in fines over facial recognition tool storing biometric data without user consent
Facebook could face billions of dollars in fines after a federal judge ruled that the company…
Next Android version’s flagrant iPhone X imitation shows how little Google is innovating
Android P is still in super-duper developer-only beta mode, but you only need to look at an iPhone X…
