The U.S. Supreme Court handed Alphabet Inc.’s Google a big victory on Monday, ruling that its line-for-line use of Oracle’s software code…
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Apple, other techs wary of full disclosure of secrets in Google antitrust case
Apple said confidential material they provided for the U.S. antitrust probe of Google should not be shared because secrets they include…
SCOTUS Justice Gorsuch: Apple’s didn’t need to copy anyone to invent iPhone, so why did Google?
Alphabet’s Google got a mixed reception at the U.S. Supreme Court as it sought to overturn a ruling that could force the company to pay…
U.S. judge temporarily blocks Trump admin’s ban on new TikTok downloads
A U.S. judge has temporarily blocked a Trump administration order that was set to bar Apple’s App Store from offering TikTok for download at…
Oracle wins bid for TikTok in U.S., beating Microsoft
ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, has chosen Oracle over Microsoft, to be its U.S. technology partner in the U.S…
China would rather see TikTok U.S. close than a forced sale
Beijing opposes a forced sale of TikTok’s U.S. operations by its Chinese owner ByteDance, and would prefer to see the short video app shut…
Trump administration: TikTok buyer will not be able to transfer data from American soil to Chinese servers
As the deadline looms for Chinese technology company ByteDance to sell off its popular video platform TikTok to an American company…
President Trump says Oracle could handle TikTok purchase
President Trump this week said that Oracle could take on TikTok after he issued an executive order that would ban the video app…
Mark Hurd dead at 62
Mark Hurd, who was chief executive officer of three major technology companies including Oracle Corp., has died at the age of 62…
On tech bubble anniversary, be wary of new corporate giants
One difference between the tech giants of the dot-com era and tech giants now?
Prompted by U.S. tax cuts, Apple and others dump bonds and create $300 billion market hole
As U.S. tax cuts prompt Apple Inc. and other tech companies to bring home their overseas cash hoards…
Apple’s corporate debt holdings drop for first time since 2013
A whale in the corporate bond market is going on a diet…
Investors look to Apple’s cash, services as analysts fret over iPhone unit sales
Apple Inc’s multi-hundred billion cash stockpile and stalling growth in services such as iCloud present…
Appeals court rules that Google infringed Oracle’s Java copyrights, orders trial on damages
A federal appeals court revived Oracle Corp.’s multibillion-dollar copyright infringement claims…
LinkedIn Top Companies 2018: Apple #6
From Starbucks to Spotify, the 2018 LinkedIn Top Companies represent the companies where professionals most want to work…
Apple expected to issue less debt in 2018 now that President Trump has signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
We expect IG tech issuance to be down year-over-year for the first time in about eight years…
Why would any shareholder complain about Apple using repatriated funds for buybacks?
Sure, many of the leaders from Silicon Valley won’t experience a massive tax break…
China offers tax incentives to persuade U.S. companies like Apple to stay
In a bid to keep American businesses from taking their profits out of China following Washington’s overhaul of the United States tax code…
Apple expected to repatriate $214 billion to the U.S.; expect increased buybacks and dividends, not big acquisitions
With the new tax structure we expect Apple will bring $214 billion back to the U.S…
How Apple will win (and lose) under President Trump’s tax cuts
The Republican tax bill now awaiting President Trump’s signature has two major pieces of good news for Apple…
Apple notches big league win with U.S. Republican tax cuts, but faces snag with taxes on foreign patents
The U.S. Republican tax overhaul passed by Congress this week will allow Apple Inc. to bring back its $252.3 billion…
Congressional Republicans deliver epic overhaul of U.S. tax laws to President Donald Trump
The House overcame a final hurdle by voting Wednesday to approve a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s tax code…
Republican-controlled U.S. Congress poised to approve biggest tax system overhaul in 30 years
There is little standing in the way of the Republican party’s first major legislative triumph under President Donald Trump…
GOP tax cut plan sets 15.5% repatriation rate on offshore cash; 8% if invested in plants and equipment
The top tax rate that U.S. companies would pay on an estimated $3.1 trillion in earnings…
GOP eyes taking bigger bite from Apple, others holding cash overseas to seal President Trump’s tax cuts
Republican tax negotiators, aiming to finalize their nearly $1.5 trillion in tax cuts on Friday…
Apple could be biggest beneficiary of Republican tax reform plans, saving at least $47 billion
Apple will see as much as $47 billion slashed from its expected tax liability if Republicans push through their current tax plan, a figure that exceeds the annual profits of any other US company…
Dow soars 203 points higher to record as Wall Street cheers U.S. Senate passage of major tax bill
U.S. stocks traded sharply higher on Monday as investor sentiment was boosted the Senate…
Dow and S&P 500 hit all-time highs as chance of passing U.S. tax reform bill increases
Tax reform was one of President Trump’s main talking points during his campaign last year…
Oracle joins Apple in support of President Trump’s tax repatriation plan
Oracle’s co-chief executive Mark Hurd has pledged support to any tax change that allows the company…
Apple among US tech firms to blame Chinese regulations for breaching intellectual property rights
Repeating a complaint likely to top the agenda during U.S. President Donald Trump’s upcoming visit to Beijing…
The 5 U.S. companies with the biggest piles of overseas cash
The Trump administration’s proposal to lower the corporate tax rate to 15% has revived hopes…
Apple, other Silicon Valley firms imperiled by President Trump’s proposed import tariffs, Republicans’ border adjustment tax
That shiny new iPhone may say ‘assembled in China’ on the back, but its origins are scattered around the world…
U.S. jury finds Google didn’t need Oracle license for Android’s Java code, defeating $9 billion claim; Oracle vows appeal
Google won a jury verdict that kills Oracle Corp.’s claim to a $9 billion slice of the search giant’s Android phone business…
Apple has largest cash stockpile, more than double that of distant second Microsoft’s
Apple accounted for $215.7 billion, or 12.8%, of total corporate cash in 2015…
When Steve Jobs told Larry Ellison how he’d save Apple
Oracle Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison gave the commencement speech at the University of Southern California…
Oracle pulls plug on Java browser plugin
The perennial threat vector otherwise known as the Java plugin will be deprecated…
Banking apps accessed via smartwatches to exceed 100 million by 2020, as millennials change banking habits
The global number of banking apps accessed via smartwatches will reach the 10 million mark in 2017, rising to more than 100 million by 2020…
U.S. Supreme Court lets Oracle press case that Google copied Java in rush to make Android
The U.S. Supreme Court let Oracle Corp. press accusations that Google Inc…
Apple Watch is Apple’s most successful product debut ever
When the iPod first went on sale in 2001, Apple sold just 125,000 units…
Analyst: Apple has already sold 7 million Apple Watches
2015 is shaping to become the Apple Watch Christmas…
These 5 U.S. tech companies are sitting on $430 billion in cash
Reserves of $430.3 billion, the vast majority of which were held overseas…
Apple’s Angela Ahrendts emerges as highest-paid U.S. woman with $83 million
Yahoo! Inc.’s Marissa Mayer was the country’s highest-paid female CEO…
