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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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The CMA has launched an investigation into Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) following complaints that its terms and conditions for app developers are unfair and anti-competitive.
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US chip manufacturers had their wishes granted yesterday when President Joe Biden pledged US$37 billion in funding to boost manufacturing.
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US senator Amy Klobuchar is taking on Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple (GAFA) in an anti-trust reform bill that she has introduced into Congress.
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Chinese messaging, social media and e-commerce service WeChat is one of the world’s strongest tech brands, according to ratings released today.
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Social Media giant Facebook has been sued by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on the grounds of ‘anticompetitive conduct’.
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Japanese incumbent telco NTT and vendor NEC are working together to compete with US-based internet giants in future wireless and optical networks, and to wrest control away from largely English-speaking companies.
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The co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak, is launching his second company, Efforce, to transform and disrupt the energy efficiency market, 45 years after starting the consumer electronics computer firm.
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From competition to regulation, the tech giants are rarely out of the headlines, but their days of dominance could be numbered.
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More than half of all phones bought in China in the past three months work with 5G networks, according to a new survey.
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The sale of smartphones declined 20.2% in the first quarter of the year, with Samsung, Huawei and Oppo the worst hit, according to new analysis.
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France’s contact tracing strategy to combat the spread of Covid-19 has been thrown into question after the country admitted the impact of an under-development app could be limited due to privacy protections implemented by Google and Apple.
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Tech giant Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) has acquired its fourth start-up of the year, signalling that it could be about to return to the frenetic pace set in 2019, despite an impending global recession caused by Covid-19.
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