U.S. stocks ended higher on Monday as increases in large tech and internet companies and oil price gains outweighed concerns sparked by fresh U.S.-China…
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Apple gaps up, helps lift Dow Jones to 500-point gain
The stock market held bullish gains in afternoon trading Tuesday as Apple, Home Depot, and Microsoft outperformed in the Dow Jones Industrial Average…
Apple surge contributes to Dow’s 500-point rally
Shares of Home Depot and Johnson & Johnson are trading higher Tuesday morning, fueling a rally for the Dow Jones Industrial Average…
Dow surges after Bernie Sanders drops out; Apple among key gainers
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied more than [680] points Wednesday midday after Bernie Sanders dropped out of the presidential race. Meanwhile…
‘Naked’ investors, not COVID numbers, will determine market performance
Naked investors who went all-in on stocks might sell once they recoup some of their losses, which could lead to a bigger decline in the market…
Apple market cap falls below $1 trillion as Democrats block $2 trillion stimulus
Apple market cap has fallen below the $1 trillion level as cases of SARS-CoV-2 in the U.S. surged above 35,000 Monday morning, as COVID-19 infections…
COVID-19 has created a rare opportunity to buy dominant tech companies like Apple on the cheap
You may have heard this one before: Cash is now king. And on that score, tech stocks like Apple are far better positioned than any other sector…
Bing.com launches an interactive COVID-19 tracking map
Microsoft’s Bing.com is working to help keep people up-to-date on the spread of COVID-19 with a new interactive COVID-19 tracking map …
Trump administration discusses coronavirus response with tech firms
Trump administration officials, including U.S. Chief Technology Officer Michael Kratsios who led the call, discussed the response to the coronavirus…
Trump administration to meet with Apple, others to discuss ways to control coronavirus outbreak
Trump administration officials will meet reps from Apple and other large tech companies on Wednesday to coordinate efforts over the coronavirus outbreak…
Apple, others look to move production away from China; not an easy task
Apple, Google and Microsoft have looked to move some hardware production from China to other countries, including Vietnam and Thailand…
Survey of H-1B visa holders at Apple, other tech companies reveals complicated picture
OneZero conducted a 10,000-person survey in an attempt to shed light on the experiences of H-1B holders at Apple and other large tech companies…
How to play ‘Halo’ on your iPhone or iPad with Microsoft’s Project xCloud
“Project xCloud,” the codename for Microsoft’s new game streaming service, is now available in beta, so now you can play ‘Halo’ on your iPhone or iPad …
Apple retakes ‘most valuable company’ title from Microsoft
Microsoft’s new reign as the most valuable U.S. company by market capitalization is looking like a short one as Apple shares climb today…
President Trump praises trillion dollar tech companies, calling them MAGA
President Trump today heaped praise on the four big tech companies with trillion dollar plus market caps, the trillion dollar MAGA club…
FTC probes acquisitions made by Apple and other big tech companies
The FTC issued Special Orders to five large technology firms as the agency probes acquisitions made by Apple and other big tech companies…
Epic Systems and some 60 hospital chains oppose medical data sharing rules supported by Apple and others
Epic Systems recently urged some of the largest U.S. health systems to sign a letter opposing proposed rules to make it easier to share medical records data …
Avast antivirus program harvested user data, sold to Google, Microsoft
The Avast antivirus program used by hundreds of millions of people around the world is selling highly sensitive web browsing data to many large companies…
Which company is next to join trillion-dollar market cap club?
Apple established the trillion-dollar market cap club, followed (as usual) by perpetual Apple-follower Microsoft. Last week, Google parent Alphabet Inc…
Apple reps set to join meeting promoting patient access to health data
Apple will be represented by phone at a meeting designed to help push through a policy change to let consumers access their health data …
Google parent Alphabet hits trillion-dollar market cap for first time
Google’s parent co. Alphabet hit the $1 trillion market capitalization milestone, making it the fourth U.S. company to hit the milestone after Apple…
Apple, BMW, and other companies call on EU to take action on patent trolls
Apple, Microsoft and BMW, together with a wide group of other technology companies and carmakers, called on the EU to take action against patent trolls…
Apple’s chance to grow as Microsoft kills support for 417M Windows PCs
As Microsoft pulls support for near half a billion Windows 7 PCs, it’s make or break for Windows-based IT and Apple is presented with a big growth opportunity…
Features Apple should borrow from Microsoft’s Surface Pro X for iPad Pro
I use my iPad Pro as my main laptop on a daily basis, but…
Apple and Google named in US lawsuit over child cobalt mining deaths in Congo
A landmark legal case has been launched against the world’s largest tech companies by Congolese families who say their children were killed or maimed…
Intel, AMD, and Microsoft likely hardest hit by new Chinese mandate forbidding international technology
Following the U.S. ban that prohibited domestic companies from supplying equipment to Huawei back in May, the technological Cold War between the U.S. and China…
Microsoft turns Outlook.com into a Progressive Web App that you can ‘install’ into macOS
The Outlook desktop app that ships as part of Microsoft’s Office suite can be quite cluttered but now Mac users…
Apple and Microsoft dwarf the rest of the market
Hitting a milestone that highlighted just how much the two largest U.S. companies influence major stock indexes, Apple and Microsoft helped propel the Dow…
Microsoft’s Outlook for Mac gets a new design and big performance improvements
Microsoft is bringing some much-needed improvements to its Outlook for Mac app…
Why Microsoft Surface sales aren’t growing after seven years of trying
Microsoft’s Surface stagnancy reflects a conspicuous lack of progress…
Apple passes Microsoft to once again become the world’s most valuable public company
Apple has once again assumed their rightful seat atop the throne as the world’s most valuable company, deposing poseur Microsnot…
Jeff Bezos’ Amazon is flooding the hardware gaps between Apple, Microsoft, and Google
Amazon held an event just last week where 80 — that’s eight zero — products were announced…
iOS 13 should not be Apple’s ‘Windows 10’
On September 19, 2019, Apple released iOS 13, perhaps one of the biggest releases of its mobile platform…
Apple hits restart on game controller support
It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly six years since Apple added game controller support to iOS…
‘Minecraft’ is getting more realistic graphics thanks to a deal with Nvidia
Minecraft, the world’s best-selling video game with over 176 million copies sold, will be dramatically more realistic through support for real-time ray tracing…
Apple hit with lawsuit for storing iCloud data on third-party servers
Apple faces a class-action lawsuit filed in California which accuses the company of false advertising….
Your iPhone contacts list could be a vulnerable target – unless you’ve updated your software
Researchers say they were able to surreptitiously gain greater access to iOS privileges: “If successful, the intruder owns your iPhone” and the information on it…
Microsoft hires man named ‘Mac Book’ to pimp Surface Laptop 2
Microsoft went to great lengths to find an actual human named Mac Book to…
76% of retail IT decision makers believe that Apple devices are better than Windows or Android
More than three-quarters of respondents (82%) who use Windows or Android in their retail environments experience problems…
Is this Linux desktop more beautiful than Microsoft’s Windows 10 or even Apple’s Mac?
As a fairly new desktop Linux user I’ve been a distro-hopping fanatic, exploring the functionality and key differences between the array of…
NSO Group says it can scrape data from Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft cloud services
The Israeli company whose spyware hacked WhatsApp has told buyers its technology can surreptitiously scrape all of an individual’s data…
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…
