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Google kills diversity hiring targets
Google has decided to discontinue its goal of increasing hires from historically underrepresented groups and is reevaluating DEI…
Judge denies Apple’s attempt to intervene in Google search engine lawsuit
Apple is attempting to defend its lucrative $20-billion-plus search engine agreement with Google amid Google’s antitrust lawsuit, but…
Apple files emergency motion asking court to halt Google search monopoly case
Apple has filed an emergency motion to halt the upcoming remedies trial by the Justice Department against Google, seeking a more…
Apple Intelligence is several years behind Samsung’s Google Gemini-powered Galaxy S25 phones – Gurman
Samsung’s Google Gemini-powered Galaxy S25 phones are “several years” ahead of iPhones with Apple Intelligence…
President Trump blasts EU regulators for targeting Apple, other Big Tech firms
U.S. President Donald Trump criticized European Union regulators for targeting Apple, Alphabet subsidiary Google, and Meta Platforms…
Britain signals it is prepared to go easier on Big Tech regulation
Britain’s appointment of a former Amazon exec to lead antitrust is seen as an invitation for investment, particularly from Big Tech…
With President Trump inbound, EU reassesses tech probes into Apple, Google and Meta
The European Union (EU) is reassessing its investigations of tech groups including Apple and others, just as President Donald Trump…
Apple joins Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium to help develop next-gen AI data center tech
Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium (UALink) has announced the expansion of its Board of Directors with the election of Apple, Alibaba Cloud…
Apple explains why it has no plans to create a search engine
Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of services, has explained the company’s decision not to develop a search engine to compete…
Google issues major price hike on YouTube TV
Alphabet subsidiary Google on Thursday notified subscribers of a major price increase for its YouTube TV streaming television service…
European Union on collision course with President Trump over Apple, X, other big tech companies
Multiple tech giants, including Apple, Google, Meta, and Elon Musk’s X, are facing a potential wave of significant fines and even forced…
President Trump picks Gail Slater to lead DOJ’s antitrust division
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday chose Gail Slater, an antitrust veteran and economic adviser for J.D. Vance…
DOJ proposes Google end search deal with Apple, sell Chrome browser; sell Android should remedies fail
In a significant legal battle, U.S. DOJ prosecutors have argued that Google should be forced to divest its Chrome browser and share data and…
U.S. DOJ weighs Google breakup in historic antitrust case
The U.S. Department of Justice has indicated to a federal judge that it may recommend breaking up Google to address the harm…
Ambient Computing smart glasses are bigger opportunity than Apple Vision Pro’s Spatial Computing – Gene Munster
Both Meta Platforms and Google are shifting their development focus away from Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality to “Ambient Computing”…
Apple surrenders its huge podcasting lead to YouTube and Spotify
Why’s it called “podcasting?” Because it’s a blend of “iPod” and “broadcast.” Despite being named after an Apple product, and despite…
British watchdog shuts down probes into Apple and Google app stores
Britain’s competition regulator has temporarily halted its probes into Apple and Google’s app stores, pending the implementation…
Should we keep MacDailyNews going?
It’ll be 22 years of publishing for MacDailyNews next month. So far MacDailyNews has published 81,579 posts. That’s an average of 3,708…
U.S. DOJ considers seeking Google breakup for abusing its monopolies in online search, ads
The U.S. Justice Department is exploring the possibility of breaking up Google following a court ruling that found the company monopolized…
Google’s monopoly abuse ruling may aid Apple defense in antitrust case
Apple could be the winner after Alphabet subsidiary Google lost its fight with the U.S. antitrust enforcers earlier this week, with a ruling…
In 2022 alone, Google paid Apple $20 billion to cement its illegal monopoly
Alphabet subsidiary Google is “a monopolist, and has acted as one to maintain its monopoly” in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Act…
U.S. judge rules Google has illegal monopoly on search
A U.S. judge ruled on Monday that Google violated U.S. antitrust law, spending billions of dollars to create an illegal monopoly and…
OpenAI’s Apple deal could be a bigger threat to Google than SearchGPT – analysts
OpenAI ‘s SearchGPT will have less of an impact on the search-engine giant’s dominance than could OpenAI’s partnership with Apple…
President Trump’s VP pick J.D. Vance supports Big Tech crackdown
Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick J.D. Vance supports using antitrust laws to challenge Big Tech, especially in…
Lucrative Apple – Google default search deal threatened by antitrust lawsuit
Apple’s lucrative deal with Google, making Google Search the default on Safari, faces an uncertain future due to the looming U.S. Department…
Apple Intelligence may add more GenAI options beyond OpenAI’s ChatGPT – until they have their own
Apple may add other chatbot options to Siri and Apple Intelligence beyond the starting partner OpenAI – think Google’s Gemini, Baidu’s…
Argentine President Milei to meet with Apple CEO Cook, other tech CEOs in U.S. this week
Argentina’s President Javier Milei is set to meet with Apple CEO Tim Cook and other top-level executives from Open AI, Google, and Meta…
Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android
Apple and Google have worked together to create an industry specification — Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers…
Google paid $20 billion to Apple in 2022 to be Safari’s default search engine
Google paid $20 billion to Apple in 2022 to be Safari’s default search engine newly unsealed court documents in the U.S. DOJ’s antitrust suit…
Apple expected to report biggest quarterly revenue decline in more than a year
Apple’s plans to catch up to rivals in generative AI and revive sagging sales in the Chinese smartphone market will be in focus on Thursday…
Apple poaches AI experts from Google for secretive artificial intelligence lab
Apple has poached dozens of artificial intelligence experts from Google and has created a secretive AI laboratory in Zurich, Switzerland…
Google copies Apple yet again with Find My Device network for Android
Google this week revealed its Find My Device network for Android devices, copying Apple’s Find My network which is used to locate Apple…
Key analyst says Apple making personal robots would be a ‘horror show’
Apple is reportedly exploring the development of personal robots. Such a push into home robotics would be a “horror show.,” according to…
How Apple devices powered by Google’s Gemini AI might work
A Siri that actually works reliably. AI image editing. Smart “snapshots” of your day Experts forecast how Apple might use Google’s Gemini …
Apple won’t debut its own generative AI chatbot in its next major OSes
Apple is not planning to debut its own generative AI chatbot with its next major software updates, including iOS 18 for the iPhone.…
Apple’s scramble to catch up in AI could crimp profit margins – Gene Munster
Apple’s frenzied scramble to catch up to other tech firms in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) likely will pressure its profits…
Any Apple – Google generative AI tie-up likely to draw regulatory scrutiny
Apple, which was caught flat-footed in AI, especially generative AI, is in talks to license Google’s Gemini large language model (LLM)…
Apple looks to license Google Gemini for iPhone, generative AI tools
Apple is in talks to build Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence engine into iPhone, iPad, and other platforms, people familiar with the…
Apple iPhone takes 51.9% share of Japan’s smartphone market
According to International Data Corporation ’s (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, in 2023Q4, Japan’s shipments of mobile…
Microsoft offered to sell Bing to Apple when pitching default search deal
Microsoft, the world’s most valuable company, offered to sell Bing to Apple in 2018, or form a joint venture related to the search engine…
Google lays off hundreds in Pixel, AR, Nest, Voice Assistant, Fitbit, and other teams
Alphabet subsidiary Google said on Wednesday it is laying off hundreds of employees across multiple teams, with Fitbit co-founders…
