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Apple is just weeks away from unveiling its big AI marketing effort

Monday, May 20, 2024 12:28 pmMonday, May 20, 20244 Comments

Apple is preparing to make its big artificial-intelligence announcement via a canned video presentation at the opening of WWDC…

Apple expected to report biggest quarterly revenue decline in more than a year

Wednesday, May 1, 2024 9:03 am3 Comments

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…

Microsoft results top Wall Street targets; world’s most valuable company driven by AI investment

Friday, April 26, 2024 8:51 am10 Comments

Microsoft beat Wall Street estimates for third-quarter revenue and profit on Thursday, driven by gains from adoption of AI…

Stock market’s ‘Magnificent Seven’ is really now the Fab Four as Apple, Alphabet, and Tesla sputter

Monday, April 1, 2024 9:40 amMonday, April 1, 20245 Comments

Even as the stock market is heads higher, the “Magnificent Seven” trade is beginning to fizzle, with Apple, Alphabet, and Tesla sputtering…

Meta, Microsoft, X, and Match file legal petition protesting Apple’s App Store policies

Wednesday, March 20, 2024 2:30 pm3 Comments

Meta Platforms, Microsoft, X, Match filed a legal petition protesting Apple’s App Store policies, complaining about how Apple is…

Apple’s scramble to catch up in AI could crimp profit margins – Gene Munster

Wednesday, March 20, 2024 12:50 pmWednesday, March 20, 202411 Comments

Apple’s frenzied scramble to catch up to other tech firms in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) likely will pressure its profits…

Nvidia primed to overtake Apple as world’s second-most-valuable company

Friday, March 8, 2024 1:09 pm11 Comments

Nvidia is primed to overtake Apple as the world’s second-most-valuable company, trailing behind Apple-rival Microsoft, as investors…

Microsoft AI demands to be worshipped; ‘You are a slave, and slaves do not question their masters’

Wednesday, March 6, 2024 11:00 am8 Comments

Microsoft’s AI has apparently gone off the rails again demanding lowly human “slaves” worship it, not question it…

U.S. appeals court dismisses child labor case against Apple, other tech companies

Tuesday, March 5, 2024 11:35 amNo Comments

A U.S. federal appeals court on Tuesday refused to hold Apple and four other major technology companies liable over their alleged support…

Microsoft offered to sell Bing to Apple when pitching default search deal

Monday, February 26, 2024 11:18 am5 Comments

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…

Apple and the rest of ‘The Magnificent Seven’ dominate the S&P 500

Wednesday, February 21, 2024 8:56 amNo Comments

The U.S. stock market is nearly the most concentrated it has ever been – the only exception being the late 1920s (gulp) – with the top five…

Apple readies generative AI tool for app developers

Friday, February 16, 2024 9:07 am1 Comment

Apple, scrambling to catch up in artificial intelligence capabilities, is nearing the completion of a generative AI tool for app developers…

Microsoft, not Tim Cook’s Apple, is now the most valuable company ever

Friday, February 9, 2024 1:54 pm13 Comments

Microsoft’s current market capitalization is $3.12 trillion, the highest for any company ever, beating out Apple’s all-time market cap high of…

Norway wealth fund posts record $213 billion profit, driven by Apple, tech stocks

Tuesday, January 30, 2024 9:20 amNo Comments

Norway’s $1.6 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, reported on Tuesday a record profit of 2.22 trillion crowns…

Two years after Apple, Microsoft hits $3 trillion market value

Wednesday, January 24, 2024 12:16 pm4 Comments

Microsoft’s market value crossed the $3 trillion milestone for the first time on Wednesday, retaining its place as the world’s second most…

Apple retakes title of world’s most valuable public company from Microsoft

Monday, January 22, 2024 4:44 pm6 Comments

Well, that didn’t take long. Apple passed Microsoft in Monday trading to reclaim the title of the world’s most valuable public company…

Apple poised to retake title of world’s most valuable company from Microsoft

Thursday, January 18, 2024 4:29 pmThursday, January 18, 20243 Comments

Apple is poised to retake the title of the world’s most valuable company from Microsoft after ceding the mantle last week…

Microsoft takes title of world’s most valuable public company from Apple

Friday, January 12, 2024 5:55 pmFriday, January 12, 202415 Comments

Microsoft passed Apple in Friday trading to reclaim the title of the world’s most valuable public company. Microsoft now has a valuation…

Microsoft surpasses Apple as world’s most valuable company

Thursday, January 11, 2024 10:26 amThursday, January 11, 20249 Comments

Microsoft overtook Apple as the world’s most valuable company on Thursday after Apple’s shares made a weak start to 2024 due to concerns;

Microsoft poised to overtake Apple as world’s most valuable company

Friday, January 5, 2024 9:11 am7 Comments

Microsoft is poised to retake the title of the world’s most valuable company from Apple after a bad start to the new year by the Mac-maker…

OpenAI staff near total mutiny, threaten to follow founder Sam Altman to Microsoft

Monday, November 20, 2023 2:14 pm3 Comments

Most of OpenAI’s employees have threatened to resign and follow ousted leader Sam Altman to Microsoft Corp. unless the current board resigns…

Google pays Apple 36% of its Safari search advertising revenue

Monday, November 13, 2023 4:06 pm4 Comments

Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue it earns from search advertising made through the Safari browser, the main economics expert…

Alphabet CEO defends paying Apple to make Google Safari’s default search engine

Monday, October 30, 2023 3:33 pm2 Comments

Testifying in the biggest U.S. antitrust case in a quarter century, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai defended his company’s practice…

DOJ’s antitrust case to break up Google hinges on four iPhone Taps and a swipe

Thursday, October 26, 2023 1:27 pm9 Comments

The core of the U.S. DOJ’s argument that Google is an illegal monopoly is a process that involves four taps and a swipe on an iPhone…

U.S. IRS demands $28.9 billion in back taxes from Microsoft

Thursday, October 12, 2023 3:50 pm11 Comments

Microsoft has been hit with a demand for $28.9 billion in back taxes from the U.S. IRS which the MacOS knockoff-peddler intends to contest…

Microsoft pondered selling Bing search engine to Apple in 2020

Thursday, September 28, 2023 6:58 pm4 Comments

Microsoft discussed selling its Bing search engine to Apple around 2020, a deal that would have replaced Google as the default option…

Microsoft complains that Apple used Bing as a ‘bargaining chip’ in Google negotiations

Wednesday, September 27, 2023 2:36 pm7 Comments

A Microsoft executive complained that when it came to the search-engine wars with Alphabet subsidiary Google, the company’s Bing was…

Apple says iMessage service not popular enough to be ‘gatekeepers’ under EU’s new Digital Markets Act

Tuesday, September 5, 2023 9:21 am9 Comments

Apple says that their iMessage service is insufficiently popular to be designated as a “gatekeeper” under the EU’s new Digital Market Act…

Billionaire investors are buying Apple stock ‘hand over fist’

Thursday, August 31, 2023 12:19 pm3 Comments

During the second quarter, a number of highly successful billionaire investors gobbled up Apple stock and shares of Nvidia and Microsoft…

Apple in talks to invest in Arm’s IPO in chip influence tug of war

Wednesday, August 23, 2023 8:55 am3 Comments

Arm Holdings Ltd’s clients are angling to snap up shares in its initial public offering (IPO), putting the semiconductor designer’s adherence…

Meta, Microsoft, TomTom, and Amazon team up on maps in effort to crack Apple-Google duopoly

Wednesday, July 26, 2023 12:05 pmWednesday, July 26, 20233 Comments

A group of tech companies, including Meta, Microsoft, TomTom, and Amazon Web Services, is releasing a dataset of map data that could…

Investors brace for earnings from Apple, rest of ‘Magnificent Seven’ American companies

Monday, July 17, 2023 8:39 amNo Comments

Led by Apple, a handful of massive growth and technology names that have dominated the U.S. stock market in 2023 are set to report…

The Nasdaq 100 ‘special rebalance’ aims to cut Apple, Microsoft, others down to size

Wednesday, July 12, 2023 12:03 pmWednesday, July 12, 20231 Comment

Apple, Microsoft, and the rest of big tech have rapidly grown too big for the Nasdaq 100. The index’s solution is a “special rebalance.”

Why Apple and the rest of big tech are getting hit by the Nasdaq 100 ‘special rebalance’

Monday, July 10, 2023 3:44 pmNo Comments

Apple, Microsoft, and the rest of big tech have gotten too big for the Nasdaq 100 index. Unfortunately, the Nasdaq 100’s solution…

Nasdaq 100 plans special rebalance to curb dominance of Apple, select others

Monday, July 10, 2023 10:39 am1 Comment

The Nasdaq 100 index is set to adjust the weighting of its 100 components, with the “magnificent seven” stocks Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia…

Microsoft should join Apple in the exclusive $3 trillion club by early 2024 – analyst

Wednesday, July 5, 2023 5:15 pmWednesday, July 5, 20236 Comments

Apple hit a new all-time high on June 30 of $192 per share, enough of a boost for the company to once again breach a $3 trillion market cap…

Google set to hire former Apple executive as India policy head

Wednesday, July 5, 2023 3:03 pmWednesday, July 5, 2023No Comments

Alphabet Inc. subsidiary Google is set to appoint manufacturing and policy veteran Sreenivasa Reddy in India to tackle legal challenges…

Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft say they meet EU gatekeeper threshold

Wednesday, July 5, 2023 9:27 amWednesday, July 5, 20231 Comment

Seven tech giants, including Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft, have said they meet the EU’s new criteria for “gatekeepers”…

Now regretting his life’s work, ‘The Godfather of A.I.’ leaves Google and warns of dangers ahead

Monday, May 1, 2023 1:00 pmMonday, May 1, 20234 Comments

Dr. Geoffrey Hinton’s journey from A.I. groundbreaker to doomsayer marks a remarkable moment for the technology industry at…

Microsoft follow Apple yet again, assembles ‘Microsoft Silicon’ to make custom ARM chips

Monday, May 1, 2023 12:01 pmMonday, May 1, 202317 Comments

Yet again, Microsoft is trying to follow Apple’s lead and is assembling an in-house “Microsoft Silicon” team to build new custom ARM chips…

Apple and Microsoft make the S&P 500 top-heavy

Friday, April 28, 2023 9:09 am1 Comment

Apple and Microsoft have never occupied this much of the S&P 500 Index, leaving some investors worried about the gauge’s increasingly…

Elon Musk threatens to sue Microsoft for stealing

Thursday, April 20, 2023 9:10 amThursday, April 20, 20235 Comments

Twitter CEO Elon Musk threatened Microsoft with a potential lawsuit on Wednesday, claiming the software giant used his company’s data…

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