The United States’ “Big Tech” names – Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook — led gainers on Wall Street on Wednesday…
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Apple CEO Tim Cook and Ivanka Trump to tout job training
Apple CEO Tim Cook and IBM Chairman Ginni Rometty will join Ivanka Trump, a senior aide to and a daughter of President Donald Trump, to launch…
Apple CEO Tim Cook praises narrow Supreme Court decision on DACA
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday said President Trump’s 2017 move to cancel his predecessor Barack Obama’s DACA order failed to follow administrative…
White House panel, which includes Apple CEO Cook: Build new tech infrastructure for future jobs
A White House advisory panel on Tuesday will call for the government and private industry to work together to build new technological infrastructure…
Apple donates 10M face masks in U.S. and millions more in Europe
Apple CEO Tim Cook announced via Twitter today that the company has sourced and will be donating 10 million face masks for the U.S. and millions more…
Vice President Pence: Apple donates 9 million N95 protective masks
Vice President Mike Pence said that Apple has pledged to donate 9 million N95 respirator masks to healthcare facilities across the U.S.…
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty steps down
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty is stepping down. The IBM Board of Directors has elected Arvind Krishna as CEO of the company effective April 6, 2020…
Defying critics, U.S. presidential adviser Ivanka Trump draws applause at CES 2020 keynote
U.S. presidential adviser Ivanka Trump on Tuesday touted government-industry collaboration to create jobs, drawing applause at a tech show…
How Apple is already part of Industry 4.0
Apple calling the iPhone “revolutionary” was an epic understatement….
IBM now has over 290,000 Apple Macs and other devices deployed
With over 90,000 Macs deployed by 2016, IBM saves anywhere from $273-$543 per Mac compared vs. Windows PC over a four-year span…
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’s Tim Cook files brief with U.S. Supreme Court to support DACA
On Wednesday, Apple filed a friend of the court brief with the Supreme Court in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy…
IBM is buying Red Hat for $34 billion
IBM has finalized its deal to purchase Red Hat as it seeks ways to diversify its business in the cloud…
Is Apple becoming the next IBM?
Apple is slowly getting smaller. And Jony Ive’s departure — who after 23 years running design at Apple will leave to form LoveFrom…
President Trump says he purposely condensed Apple CEO Tim Cook as ‘Tim Apple’ to save time
President Trump said he purposely condensed the name of Apple CEO Tim Cook as ‘Tim Apple’ as a time-saving measure…
President Trump calls Apple CEO ‘Tim Apple’ instead of Tim Cook
In a meeting of the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board at the White House on Wednesday…
Apple’s Cook, other CEOs tell President Trump they’re hiring more Americans without college degrees
A less than a four-year degree will get a very good paying job in the new economy…
Laurene Powell Jobs ready to invest more in journalism, says democracy at risk
Laurene Powell Jobs, billionaire philanthropist and wife of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs…
Apple headlines coalition of companies urging Congress to save ‘Dreamer’ immigrants
More than 100 major companies including Apple are renewing their push for immigration reform…
How to buy a Mac: 10 things you should know
I recently got a request from a reader. His kid is going to college and needs to get a Mac…
IBM to assist Brazil’s Banco Inter to integrate 1,000 Apple Macs
Banco Inter has acquired 1,000 Macs and teamed up with IBM Services….
Apple CEO Tim Cook, other U.S. CEOs warn of harm from Trump administration’s immigration policy
A group of chief executive officers at the largest U.S. companies expressed serious concern about…
April 2007: When Apple stopped the rot
Enterprise users are catching onto something many already recognize…
The rise of Apple in the enterprise: Employees demand to bring Macs and iPhones to work
Employee demand to bring Macs and iPhones to work is leading businesses to consider making the switch to Apple…
Silicon Valley execs will convene in San Francisco to discuss privacy
Privacy and government affairs officers from a number of the largest tech companies plan to convene..
Apple pummels privacy-trampling Facebook
In the early days of Apple, of course, the company’s Evil Empires were IBM and Microsoft…
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…
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…
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…
Cambridge Analytica shuts down after Facebook user-data scandal
Cambridge Analytica, a data firm that worked for President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign…
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…
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…
I was one of the very first people on Facebook. I shouldn’t have trusted Mark Zuckerberg
Fourteen years, two months, and eight days ago, I made a mistake…
Facebook AI predicts your future and sells this info to advertisers
Facebook’s artificial intelligence software can predict your future behaviour and sells this information to advertisers…
Why there shouldn’t be a ‘next Facebook’
Social media networks are like cigarettes…
Zuckerberg admits Facebook collects data on non-users
We’ve already learned quite a bit from Mark Zuckerberg’s grilling on Capitol Hill….
Facebook is lying about your data
Mark Zuckerberg’s Congress testimony following the Cambridge Analytica breach…
Apple co-founder Woz deactivates Facebook account
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak announced that he has quit Facebook…
