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Apple refunds HBO subscribers and offers HBO Max discount

Friday, July 23, 2021 11:02 am8 Comments

Apple on Thursday offered customers a refund for any unused portion of their subscription and a discount for HBO Max…

HBO officially shuts down its Apple TV Channel

Thursday, July 22, 2021 4:27 pm5 Comments

When HBO Max launched earlier this year, HBO simultaneously stopped participating in Apple TV Channels, which meant that new subscribers…

Apple TV+ joins ACE motion picture industry anti-piracy coalition’s governing board

Wednesday, October 7, 2020 5:05 pm3 Comments

The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the world’s leading anti-piracy coalition, today announced that Apple TV+ is its newest…

Analyst: Lack of live sports could accelerate cord-cutting

Monday, March 23, 2020 4:40 pmNo Comments

Baird analyst William Power reasons that the lack of live sports and growing economic pressures due to COVID-19 are likely to accelerate cord-cutting …

Former HBO CEO Richard Plepler inks five-year Apple TV+ production deal

Thursday, January 2, 2020 3:01 pmNo Comments

The entertainment world is in flux, and to start the new year, Mr. Plepler is making changes of his own…

Apple in talks to add former HBO chief Richard Plepler to exclusive Apple TV+ producer lineup

Tuesday, November 12, 2019 4:17 pm1 Comment

Former HBO Chairman and Chief Executive Richard Plepler is in advanced talks to sign an exclusive production deal with Apple…

Why J.J. Abrams reportedly turned down $500 million from Apple

Friday, November 1, 2019 3:03 pm6 Comments

Abrams elected to go with WarnerMedia despite its lower offer. The five-year deal puts all of Bad Robot’s divisions…

Netfix acquires Seinfeld rights for around $500 million, streaming begins in 2021

Tuesday, September 17, 2019 5:33 pmTuesday, September 17, 201912 Comments

Netflix just paid somewhere near $500 million (the exact terms have not been disclosed) to acquire Seinfeld streaming rights beginning in 2021…

Apple has more than enough money to buy a Hollywood studio, but should they?

Tuesday, September 17, 2019 11:32 am7 Comments

Now that Apple is diving into the content business with Apple TV+, should Apple “go full Hollywood” and buy up a studio?

Apple offered J.J. Abrams far more than WarnerMedia, but he said no

Friday, September 13, 2019 1:27 pmFriday, September 13, 20198 Comments

Sources say Apple was willing to pay more than $500 million for Abrams’ Bad Robot production company…

Apple’s new TV strategy might just work

Thursday, August 22, 2019 4:30 pm1 Comment

The new Apple TV app is already on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV 4K, and Apple TV HD. And this fall, Apple is bringing the Apple TV experience to the Mac…

Apple is ‘racing’ to get HBO and Showtime on its soon-to-be-unveiled streaming service

Wednesday, March 13, 2019 10:15 amWednesday, March 13, 20194 Comments

Apple Inc. will host A-list celebrities and media executives on March 25th…

Australia plans law for tech firms to hand over encrypted private data or face millions in fines, jail time for execs

Tuesday, August 14, 2018 12:02 pmTuesday, August 14, 201816 Comments

Australia on Tuesday proposed a new law requiring technology firms…

Fired FBI director James Comey reveals how Apple’s encryption efforts drove him crazy

Monday, April 16, 2018 12:03 pmMonday, April 16, 201820 Comments

Fired FBI director James Comey writes about President Trump while also addressing other aspects of his career…

RBC: Apple’s $1 billion TV investment helps company compete with Spotify in near term

Monday, August 21, 2017 10:29 amMonday, August 21, 20173 Comments

Apple Inc.’s $1 billion investment to buy and produce original TV programming pits the technology giant against…

Is Apple diworseifying?

Friday, August 18, 2017 5:59 pmFriday, August 18, 201714 Comments

Undoubtedly, Apple is distinguished for the iPhone

Will Apple’s risk-aversion doom its TV content effort?

Thursday, August 17, 2017 4:13 pmThursday, August 17, 201718 Comments

The first noteworthy Apple video was the ad it debuted at the 1984 Super Bowl…

iCloud changes put Apple on collision course with overreaching governments

Thursday, July 20, 2017 2:44 pmThursday, July 20, 201711 Comments

Apple has consistently argued against laws that would require tech companies to build so-called ‘back doors’ into their software…

Apple flies in top executives to lobby Australia’s Turnbull government on encryption laws

Wednesday, July 19, 2017 5:17 pm10 Comments

Apple’s top privacy executives have flown out to Australia twice in the past month…

Apple meeting with Australian government to discuss proposed encryption ‘back doors’

Tuesday, July 18, 2017 2:33 pmTuesday, July 18, 201732 Comments

Attorney-General George Brandis will meet with global tech-giant Apple this week…

President Trump fires FBI Director James Comey who called for iPhone backdoor

Tuesday, May 9, 2017 6:46 pmTuesday, May 9, 2017110 Comments

President Trump has fired the director of the F.B.I., James B. Comey…

After U.S. gov’t refuses to declassify sum paid for FBI’s San Bernardino iPhone hack, Senator Dianne Feinstein inadvertently reveals it

Monday, May 8, 2017 12:00 pmMonday, May 8, 201712 Comments

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate committee that oversees the FBI, said publicly this week that the government paid $900,000 to break into the locked iPhone…

FCC helps AT&T and Time Warner avoid lengthy public interest merger review

Tuesday, April 18, 2017 2:35 pmTuesday, April 18, 20174 Comments

The Federal Communications Commission has helped clear the path for AT&T to buy Time Warner Inc…

Apple’s forthcoming tvOS 11 said to get multi-user support, picture-in-picture, and more

Monday, April 17, 2017 1:27 pmMonday, April 17, 201714 Comments

Apple is planning to update tvOS for Apple TV with multi-user support…

A premium TV bundle could be Apple’s secret weapon

Tuesday, April 4, 2017 6:12 pm18 Comments

As any investor in Apple knows (by now), the company REALLY REALLY wants to be in the TV space…

FBI’s James Comey: ‘There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America’

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 4:01 pmWednesday, March 8, 2017103 Comments

All of us have a reasonable expectation of privacy in our homes, in our cars, and in our devices. But…

FBI Director James Comey cancels SXSW 2017 appearance

Tuesday, March 7, 2017 5:35 pmTuesday, March 7, 201735 Comments

FBI Director James Comey will be unable to attend SXSW due to “scheduling conflicts” that…

News organizations ask judge to force FBI to reveal how much it paid to unlock San Bernadino Islamic terrorist’s iPhone

Tuesday, February 21, 2017 2:44 pmTuesday, February 21, 20179 Comments

Last year, the battle between Apple and the FBI dominated headlines…

Proving Apple’s assertion that there are no good backdoors, hacker dumps iOS cracking tools allegedly stolen from Cellebrite

Thursday, February 2, 2017 3:55 pmThursday, February 2, 201710 Comments

The hacker responsible has publicly released a cache of files allegedly stolen from Cellebrite…

A hacker just proved that Apple was right to worry about creating a backdoor to the iPhone

Friday, January 13, 2017 10:25 am21 Comments

Last year, when the F.B.I procured a court order forcing Apple to unlock an iPhone belonging…

What Apple got right but Amazon is getting wrong

Wednesday, January 4, 2017 1:55 pmWednesday, January 4, 201716 Comments

Law and technology frequently operate at cross purposes….

Apple approached Time Warner about possible merger before AT&T talks

Friday, October 21, 2016 5:14 pm14 Comments

Apple Inc. a few months ago approached Time Warner about pursuing a combination…

FBI wants to get into locked Apple iPhone of Minnesota Islamic terrorist Dahir Adan

Friday, October 7, 2016 11:00 am21 Comments

When the FBI asked a court to force Apple to help crack the encrypted iPhone 5c of San Bernardino shooter…

British PM Theresa May launches thinly veiled attacks on Apple and Facebook

Wednesday, October 5, 2016 10:55 amWednesday, October 5, 201638 Comments

Theresa May launched a thinly veiled attack on Apple and Facebook…

After calling for less security in Apple iPhone case, feckless FBI calls for more security as two state voter databases hacked

Tuesday, August 30, 2016 3:00 pmTuesday, August 30, 201613 Comments

The FBI has uncovered evidence that foreign hackers penetrated two state election databases…

FBI Director Comey calls for national talk over encryption vs. safety

Monday, August 8, 2016 3:25 pmMonday, August 8, 201640 Comments

The FBI’s director said Friday the agency is collecting data to present next year in hopes…

Apple’s suggestion of Time Warner bid hints at Hollywood ambitions

Thursday, May 26, 2016 1:00 pmThursday, July 28, 20165 Comments

ven if Apple Inc. never made an actual move to buy Time Warner Inc…

Apple contemplates dramatic push into media industry

Thursday, May 26, 2016 10:31 amThursday, May 26, 20169 Comments

Now that Apple has a foot planted squarely in the media industry’s door, it now seems ready to barge in further…

Apple’s Eddy Cue proposed bid for Time Warner

Thursday, May 26, 2016 10:02 amThursday, May 26, 20168 Comments

A top Apple executive raised the prospect of the iPhone maker buying Time Warner at a meeting…

FBI paid under $1 million for iPhone hack; doesn’t know how it works

Friday, April 29, 2016 10:55 amFriday, April 29, 20168 Comments

The FBI paid under $1 million for the technique used to unlock the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters…

FBI plans to keep Apple iPhone 5c-hacking method secret

Tuesday, April 26, 2016 8:46 pm11 Comments

The Federal Bureau of Investigation doesn’t plan to tell Apple Inc. how it cracked a terrorist’s phone…

FBI’s Comey says agency paid more than $1 million to access San Bernadino iPhone

Thursday, April 21, 2016 4:50 pmThursday, April 21, 201619 Comments

FBI Director James Comey hinted at an event in London on Thursday that the FBI paid more than $1 million…

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