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Even as market jitters over the DeepSeek sell-off dragged down tech stocks, industry giants posted robust earnings this week, with several reporting billion-dollar revenue gains driven by sustained demand for AI and cloud infrastructure. -
Apple and Google are the subjects of an investigation under the UK competition watchdog’s new digital markets competition regime, with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) probing its dominance in the mobile market.
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Alibaba Cloud, Apple, and Synopsys have become the latest big tech firms to join the industry group attempting to create an open standard around GPU interconnectivity.
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Apple’s $1.5 billion investment in satellite communications firm Globalstar, changes the direct-to-device (D2D) satellite game according to Emma Mohr-McClune, chief analyst of technology at GlobalData.
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Apple will invest US$1.5 billion in Globalstar, the satellite operator enabling its iPhones' emergency SOS and messaging capabilities when cellular coverage is unavailable.
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Apple’s IoS18 update, announced at its WWDC 2024 event this week, will support satellite-based messaging services.
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Elon Musk warned yesterday that he plans to ban Apple devices from his company if the US juggernaut goes forward with its planned integration of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
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The European Commission will open five non-compliance investigations into how Apple, Google and Meta comply with its new Digital Markets Act (DMA).
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In a surprising move, Apple revealed yesterday that it would introduce Rich Communication Services (RCS) to the iPhone next year.
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Nokia has signed a new patent cross-license agreement with Apple, replacing the current license that is due to expire at the end of the year.
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Smartphone shipments were down by 12% in 2022, according to market research company Canalys, and down by 18% in the last quarter of the year.
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Ericsson and Apple have reached a multi-year global patent license agreement, the companies have announced.
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Five hyperscalers make up the world’s five most valuable brands, according to the latest brand-value survey, and two others are also in the top 10.
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Apple, Alphabet and Microsoft have all broken their existing records for quarterly revenues in their latest financial results.
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Apple has officially opened its first Chinese data centre, in the south western province of Guizhou, reports state press agency Xinhua.
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Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google have come closer to facing regulation in the US following approval of a report by the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee.
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The chairman of the US House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel has unveiled a new strategy to take on big tech.
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Apple is planning a new semiconductor design centre in Munich, Germany, as part of its US$1.2 billion drive to secure supplies of semiconductor chips.
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