Clients of some Russian banks under western sanctions will no longer be able to use their cards abroad or with the Apple Pay or Google’s…
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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…
Google yet again to weakly follow Apple with limited user controls for ad tracking across apps
Alphabet subsidiary Google plans to weakly follow Apple by offering limited user controls for ad tracking across apps that are less robust…
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…
Google is building an AR headset, too
Google has recently begun ramping up work on an AR headset, internally codenamed Project Iris, that it hopes to ship in 2024…
Apple tells U.S. senators that tech bills will threaten privacy and security
Apple warned U.S. senators Tuesday that proposed bipartisan antitrust legislation aimed at curbing the power of big technology companies…
Apple CEO Tim Cook personally lobbying against the American Innovation and Choice Online Act
The lobbying effort by Big Tech companies, including Apple CEO Tim Cook, who is personally lobbying against the legislation, is picking up…
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 …
Google looks to further mimic Apple by deepening ties among devices
Alphabet Inc. subsidiary Google used the annual CES technology conference to announce plans to further mimic Apple by deepening ties…
Lawsuit alleges that Google pays Apple to steer clear of search engine market
California Crane School filed a class action antitrust case basically alleging that Google pays Apple to stay out of the search engine market…
Virtually nobody in America is using an Apple-Google COVID-19 contact tracing app
Virtually nobody in America today is using an Apple-Google COVID-19 contact tracing (exposure notification) app…
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…
Apple is once again the world’s most valuable company
How many articles were there when Microsoft briefly rose above Apple in recent days to become the “World’s Most Valuable Company?”
South Korea lawmaker says Apple not doing enough to comply with app store payment systems law
Apple and Alphabet subsidiary Google aren’t doing enough to comply with South Korea’s law barring dominant app store operators from…
Apple quietly run ads via Google search for high-value subscription apps to capture In-App revenue
Apple is quietly buying Google ads for high-value subscription apps in order to collect potentially millions of dollars in subscription rev…
YouTube TV now supports Safari browser
ouTube TV is rolling out support for Apple’s Safari browser on macOS. Previously, the service required Chrome, Firefox, or other Chromium…
Google parent company Alphabet hits $2 trillion market cap, joining Apple and Microsoft
Google parent company Alphabet briefly hit a market capitalization of $2 trillion on Monday, joining Apple and Microsoft at the $2+ billion…
Apple retakes ‘World’s Most Valuable Company’ crown from Microsoft
There were, oh, about a million article when Microsoft briefly rose above Apple in market cap to become the “World’s Most Valuable Company.”
Apple spent $64.8 million on paid search ads in 2020
Advertisers spent an estimated $59.22 billion on paid search ads in 2020. Apple ranked No.15, spending an estimated $64.8 million on…
New legislation aims at Apple, Google, and Facebook as U.S. attempts to catch up to Europe
New legislation seeks to establish new U.S. law on Section 230 protections and platforms’ habit of preferring their own services…
Apple’s App Tracking Transparency feature signals desire to enter global advertising market – analyst
Apple’s recent App Tracking Transparency feature is a sign it may look to tap into the global internet advertising market dominated by Google…
Apple, other big tech firms get to belatedly weigh in on U.S. House antitrust bills
Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon will receive a belated chance to provide feedback on U.S. House antitrust bills that, if passed…
Why settle for Android when you can ‘bring the best of Google to your iPhone?’
If you want your iPhone festooned with Google apps reporting to Google’s privacy-trampling tracking central, why settle for an iPhone knockoff…
Apple apologizes to security researcher who found multiple iOS 15 zero-day flaws
On Thursday, a security researcher frustrated with Apple’s Security Bounty program revealed three zero-days. Apple has now apologized to…
Google, fighting record $5.1 billion EU fine, slams regulators for ignoring Apple
Google on Monday launched a bid to get Europe to annul a record $5.1 billion fine and blasted EUn antitrust regulators for “ignoring” Apple …
Three iOS zero-day vulnerabilities revealed by researcher frustrated with Apple’s bug bounty program
On Thursday, a security researcher frustrated with Apple’s Security Bounty program revealed three zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple’s iOS …
Jawbone patent troll sues Apple, Google over ear buds, phones, and smart home devices
Patents originally owned by the bankrupt Silicon Valley darling Jawbone are at the center of new lawsuits seeking royalties from Apple and…
Apple should develop its own search engine to take on Google
We’ve been saying that Apple should develop their own search engine to counteract Google’s monopoly. No one company should control…
Google to pay Apple $15 billion to remain Safari’s default search engine this year
Google is expected to pay Apple $15 billion this year for its search engine to remain the default on Apple’s Safari web browser…
Russia demands Apple, Google ban Kremlin opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s app
Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor has demanded that Apple and Alphabet’s Google ban Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s app…
Apple tried to hire away former Google search chief Ben Gomes
When Apple went after a pair of high-profile managers for its Siri and artificial intelligence groups: Google’s top brass overseeing search …
U.S. House bill would force Apple to destroy their walled garden, allow third-party app stores
U.S. House Judiciary lawmakers on Friday introduced legislation meant to set rules for how companies like Apple and Google control their app…
Apple-backed ‘Matter’ smart home standard delayed until 2022
The final specification of Matter, the smart home interoperability protocol backed by Apple, Google, and Amazon, has been delayed. Matter…
U.S. Senate bill would force Apple to destroy their walled garden, allow third-party app stores
The new Senate bill, the Open App Markets Act, would let consumers select different third-party app stores for their mobile devices.…
Zoom to pay $85 million to users over lying about end-to-end video call encryption
Zoom has agreed to pay $85 million to settle claims that it lied about offering end-to-end encryption and gave user data to Facebook, Google…
Medical autonomy app Unjected banned by Apple over ‘misinformation’
A new social app, Unjected, designed as a community for the unvaccinated is has been pulled from the App Store by Apple over “misinformation”…
Apple’s U.S. HomePod sales continue to grow by triple digits
Apple’s U.S. HomePod smart speaker sales increased by triple digits each quarter since Q420, according to the latest Smart Speakers…
Apple’s iOS surges in U.S. to 50% mobile OS market share
The analysis features findings about trends in mobile phone activations from April-June 2021 for Apple’s iOS and Alphabet’s Android …
Why has Microsoft been carved out of new U.S. antitrust bills?
Why has convicted monopoly abuser Microsoft avoided scrutiny while openly supporting actions against Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and…
Google’s first retail store takes more than a bit of inspiration from Apple
Google has opened its first ever physical retail store located on the first floor of its New York City headquarters. The store, in the city’s…
Apple CEO Tim Cook delivers a warning to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Facing “antitrust” legislation that could disrupt business practices of tech companies like Apple, Tim Cook, called Speaker Nancy Pelosi and
