Analysis: Apple's corporate diplomacy in Beijing helped it evade crackdowns and kept its profits above China's tech giants but exposes it to supply chain shocks
The most profitable tech company operating in China is not a homegrown internet giant such as Alibaba or Tencent, but California-based Apple.
Seeking to reduce their reliance on China, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and others are increasingly producing devices elsewhere, such as India and Vietnam
New York Times : Tweets: @andreasharsono and @daiwaka Tweets: Andreas Harsono / @andreasharsono : Apple is producing iPads in Vietnam. Microsoft has shipped Xbox game consoles fro...
A lawsuit and interviews show that up to 12 members and relatives of religious sect Fellowship of Friends worked at Google Developer Studio, which makes videos
A video producer claims he was fired after he complained that an obscure group based in the Sierra foothills dominated a business unit at Google.
A lawsuit and interviews show that up to 12 members and relatives of religious sect Fellowship of Friends worked at Google Developer Studio, which makes videos
A video producer claims he was fired after he complained that an obscure group based in the Sierra foothills dominated a business unit at Google.
Google I/O presented a modest vision of the future, offering subtle changes to existing products; executives said “help”, “helping”, or “helpful” over 50 times
Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times : Tweets: @stevesi , @micahzenko , @daiwaka , and @raywongy Tweets: Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi : Google Offers a More Modest Vision of Future ...
Sources: Apple plans to launch a monthly subscription service by 2023 for the iPhone and other hardware that could tie into Apple One bundles and AppleCare
Apple Inc. is working on a subscription service for the iPhone and other hardware products, a move that could make device ownership similar …
A profile of Seznam, a leading search engine in the Czech Republic before Android's rise that is helping to inspire laws to limit Big Tech's power
Adam Satariano / New York Times : Tweets: @nytimes , @daiwaka , @mh4oh , @davidtvrdon , and @ondrej1974 Tweets: @nytimes : Seznam, a small search engine company in the Czech Repub...
Court documents show Google ran a campaign from 2018 to 2020 to “convince” staff that “unions suck”; Google refuses a judge's order to produce more documents
employee resource groups and other tools deployed by corporate diversity initiatives are technologies of union-busting. https://twitter.com/... Daisuke Wakabayashi / @daiwaka : In ...
The US ITC issues a final ruling declaring Google infringed on five Sonos audio tech patents and is banned from importing products that violate Sonos' IP
and buyers are fuming Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica : Google loses Sonos patent case, starts stripping functionality from speakers Zach Marzouk / IT PRO : Google banned from importing ...
The US ITC issues a final ruling declaring Google infringed on five Sonos audio tech patents and is banned from importing products that violate Sonos' IP
The company will not be allowed to import products that infringe on Sonos patents, including smart speakers, video streaming devices, and some computers and phones. Source: ITC .
Crypto and blockchain startups raised $28B+ in 2021, up 4x YoY, according to PitchBook, as large tech companies lose execs and engineers to crypto companies
Tech executives and engineers are quitting Google, Meta, Amazon and other large companies for what they say is a once-in-generation opportunity with crypto. Tweets: @cdixon , @asva...
Sidewalk Labs plans to shut down, fold its products into Google, and spin out Canopy Buildings; CEO Dan Doctoroff says he is stepping down for health reasons
Kris Holt / Engadget :
Google is aggressively pursuing a major cloud computing and AI contract with the Pentagon, three years after employee outcry ended similar work on Project Maven
& we will win again. https://www.nytimes.com/... @alphabetworkers : Our working conditions include our ethical concerns. Workers should have full transparency on the real world imp...
Apple's $19 Polishing Cloth has become its most back-ordered new product with shipments delayed until January; source: the company isn't surprised by the demand
It's a $19 cloth. — OAKLAND, Calif — Apple this month unveiled an array of new gadgets: more powerful MacBook laptop computers …
Apple misses with Q4 revenue of $83.4B, up 29% YoY, vs $84.85B est., iPhone revenue of $38.87B, up 47% YoY, services revenue of $18.3B, up 25.6%; stock down 3%+
its fastest year of growth since 2012. Net income for the year: $94.7bn. @parikpatelcfa : Microsoft has just overtaken Apple to become the largest company in the world by market ca...
Internal docs: Google realized last year it illegally underpaid temp staff in many countries for years, but was slow to fix the issue fearing negative publicity
it's about the life that it allows workers to build for themselves outside of the workplace. But for years Google executives chose to deny their workers a better quality of life du...
Apple delays the rollout of recently announced child safety features, says it will take more time to collect feedback from stakeholders and make improvements
Last month, Apple announced a handful of new child safety features that proved to be controversial, including CSAM detection features for iCloud Photos.
Apple delays the rollout of recently announced child safety features, says it will take more time to collect feedback from stakeholders and make improvements
Last month, Apple announced a handful of new child safety features that proved to be controversial, including CSAM detection features for iCloud Photos.
In a preliminary ruling, ITC judge finds Google infringed on five patents owned by Sonos; full commission will make a final ruling in December
and larger antitrust efforts against Big Tech. The run-down, on @BusinessInsider: https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... Daisuke Wakabayashi / @daiwaka : Google infringed on Sonos' p...
In a preliminary ruling, ITC judge finds Google infringed on five patents owned by Sonos; full commission will make a final ruling in December
In a preliminary finding by the United States International Trade Commission, a judge ruled that the internet company infringed on speaker-technology patents.