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Meta, Microsoft, TomTom, and Amazon team up on maps in effort to crack Apple-Google duopoly
A group of tech companies, including Meta, Microsoft, TomTom, and Amazon Web Services, is releasing a dataset of map data that could…
Apple bans knockoff of Threads, Meta’s Twitter knockoff, from App Store
Apple has pulled a knockoff of Meta’s Threads knockoff of Twitter called “Threads for Insta,” and all other apps from developer SocialKit…
Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft say they meet EU gatekeeper threshold
Seven tech giants, including Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft, have said they meet the EU’s new criteria for “gatekeepers”…
Meta’s Zuckerberg dismisses Apple Vision Pro; ‘not the one that I want’
In all-hands meeting and email to employees, Meta CEO says that the Apple Vision Pro is “not the one that I want,” and “there’s no kind of…
Meta’s quixotic Quest cannot compete with Apple’s Vision Pro
Four days before Apple entered, and redefined, the nascent extended-reality (XR) headset market by going far, far beyond merely that with…
Zuckerberg panics, Osborne Effects Meta with rushed ‘Quest 3’ headset reveal
Four days before Apple is expected to enter, and likely redefine, the mixed-reality (XR) headset market, Meta pre-announced its Quest 3 …
Apple, other tech firms push to curb U.S. government spying on texts, emails
Apple and other large tech companies are mounting a push to limit how U.S. government intelligence agencies collect and view …
Apple generates an amazing $2.4 million in annual revenue per employee
Apple has consistently been the most efficient of the major U.S. technology companies when measured on revenue generated per…
Facebook-parent Meta no longer in the top 20 most-valuable U.S. companies
A year ago, Facebook was among the five most valuable U.S. companies, with a market cap over $1 trillion. Now the company, renamed Meta…
Apple’s Federighi: Privacy and advertising can coexist
Apple’s software chief Craig Federighi said advertising and privacy can coexist as the company’s push to give users control of their privacy…
Nasdaq futures drop over 1% as Microsoft, Google earnings fan slowdown fears
Nasdaq tech stock futures fell more than 1% on Wednesday as disappointing results and warnings from Microsoft and Alphabet sparked losses…
Meta’s Zuckerberg takes aim at Apple’s iMessage new ad
Facebook- and Instagram-partent Meta is targeting Apple’s iMessage in a new advertisement touting Meta’s WhatsApp’s…
U.S. stock futures fall on growing worries of economic downturn
U.S. stock index futures fell on Thursday on worries of rampant U.S. inflation, recession, a global economic downturn from…
U.S. antitrust bill on brink of defeat
Legislation pushed by some in the U.S. Congress claiming to rein in the nation’s biggest internet companies is on the brink of defeat…
Australia demands Apple, others share anti-CSAM steps, threatens fines
Australia sent s legal letter to Apple demanding they share their strategies for stamping out Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)…
Marketers cut back on ad spending after Apple gave users their privacy back
Marketers are cutting back on ad spending due to Apple’s App Tracking Transparency privacy framework that gave users their privacy back…
Clock running out on U.S. Congress’ antitrust bill targeting Big Tech
In a setback for supporters in the U.S. House and Senate who had been pushing for a vote before the midterm elections, Congress is set…
U.S. Big Tech antitrust legislation flounders as Schumer expresses doubts
Antitrust legislation aimed at “Big Tech” companies appears stymied after U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told a group…
First round of Big Tech earnings lift stock futures ahead of Fed rate hike
U.S. stock index futures rose on Wednesday as better-than-feared quarterly reports from Big Tech companies Alphabet and Microsoft lifted…
Tech antitrust bill seeks to regulate Big Tech, change the Internet
U.S. lawmakers are eyeing votes prior to the midterm elections in November on antitrust legislation (named by supporters…
Metaverse Standards Forum includes Meta, Microsoft, others, but not Apple
Participants in the Metaverse Standards Forum include Facebook-parent Meta, Microsoft, and other tech firms, but Apple, so far, is not…
Analyst: Apple’s brand is worth $1 trillion. Meta’s is not.
Apple this week reclaimed its title as the world’s most valuable brand, last held in 2015, according to a new survey from Kantar BrandZ…
Facebook parent Meta pulls plug on dual camera Apple Watch rival
Facebook parent company Meta has pulled the plug on development of an Apple Watch rival smartwatch designed with dual cameras…
U.S. Senate likely to pass bill to bar Apple, Google, other tech firms from favoring themselves in searches
Lawmakers from both parties said on Wednesday they had the Senate votes needed to pass legislation aimed at reining in Apple…
Why Apple will beat Meta et al. in the mixed-reality headset market
Apple demonstrated an AR/VR mixed-reality headset to its board of directors and has a “consumer release planned for 2023.” Whenever Apple’s…
Apple, other tech firms hit by fake data requests used to sexually extort minors
Apple has been duped into providing sensitive personal data about their customers that was then used to sexually extort minors and…
Apple not benefiting from privacy changes that kneecapped Facebook
Apple released a new report on Tuesday which refutes accusations that it profits from App Tracking Transparency privacy framework…
Woz: Facebook is my least favorite ‘of all big tech’
Steve “Woz” Wozniak said that he and his wife both recently deactivated their Facebook accounts over data privacy concerns…
Artificial Intelligence trader picks Apple and Nvidia, dumps Alphabet and Meta
Apple and Nvidia were two stocks singled out for gains in March by a fund with holdings picked by artificial intelligence, which also…
Investor sues Meta (Facebook) for minimizing Apple Privacy tools’ impact on ad tracking
According to a proposed class-action lawsuit, Facebook-parent Meta Platforms falsely reassured investors that the impacts of Apple’s…
Meta subsidiary Instagram: Still no iPad app for you
Hundreds of millions of iPad users are still no closer to getting an app from Meta subsidiary Instagram that works well on their devices…
Beleaguered Facebook keeps whining that Apple gave users their privacy back
Societal cancer and, now, finally, rightfully beleaguered, Facebook continues whining publicly, with stupendous tone deafness, about Apple …
Facebook-parent Meta falls off the list of the world’s 10 most valuable companies
Shares of Meta (FB), parent to societal cancer Facebook, slid past a major milestone on Thursday when the company unceremoniously fell off…
Meta’s threat to pull Facebook and Instagram from Europe seen as gift by German and French ministers
Meta Platforms’s threat to pull Facebook and Instagram from Europe because of blocked talks over privacy rules is being met with enthusiasm…
Facebook stock plummets 26%, sheds more than $230 billion in market value in single day
Facebook parent Meta’s stock plunged some 26%, more than $230 billion in market value on Thursday after the company forecast weaker…
Apple’s user privacy controls damage Facebook’s ad tracking biz
On Wednesday, Facebook owner Meta Platforms posted disastrous quarterly results, blaming privacy safeguards for users from Apple…
Meta shares plunge as Facebook owner misses on earnings, forecast
Facebook subsidiary owner Meta Platforms shares plunged more than 18% after the closing bell on Wednesday as the societal cancer missed…
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…
Apple eyeing Electronic Arts, Take-Two gaming studios?
Microsoft’s bid to acquire Activision for some $75 billion is leading to speculation that Apple could buy game makers Electronic Arts and/or…
Apple won’t lose itself in the ‘metaverse’ despite its AR/VR headset plans
Apple is not planning to get involved in the “metaverse”, despite its widely reported plans to launch augmented and virtual reality headsets…
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 …
