Tech giant Apple previously told the SEC that it does not attempt to silence employees in relation to workplace harassment or discrimination, but a whistleblower’s nondisclosure agreement is bringing new scrutiny to this claim.
Chip manufacturer Intel has had some setbacks in recent years but has now unveiled a plan to revitalize U.S. chip manufacturing. Along with major upgrades to existing manufacturing facilities, the chip giant plans a major new facility in Arizona. In the near future, the company will announce the location of a $100 billion manufacturing complex.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak’s startup company, Privateer, reportedly plans to launch hundreds of satellites to study space debris. With more than a million pieces of space junk orbiting the Earth, mapping space debris is important to the future of space exploration.
Democrat Rep. Kim Schrier (WA) allegedly violated the STOCK Act by failing to properly report a more than $500,000 investment in Apple.
Apple is reportedly making taxpayers foot part of the bill for a project in which the tech giant plans to turn iPhones into digital identification cards, according to confidential documents obtained by CNBC.
During a recent interview, Apple CEO Tim Cook discussed his company’s continued operation in China while failing to address the countries human rights violations. Cook commented on China’s atrocious treatment of people including slave laborers by saying: “that’s part of both the complexity and part of the beauty of the world is everybody has their own laws and customs.”
Google’s parent company Alphabet recently reached an astounding $2 trillion in market value for the first time this week. Google’s booming advertising business and stranglehold on internet searches have rocketed the company to all-time highs during the coronavirus pandemic.
A recent PragerU documentary, Restricted: How Big Tech Is Taking Away Your Freedom, features an ex-senior engineering manager at Facebook who talks about how he was labeled a “hate monger” by his coworkers after he started challenging the company’s policy on “hate speech,” which was “subjective” and kept broadening over time.
A recent study has found that Apple’s consumer-friendly privacy standards for iPhones and other devices have cost social media giants including Meta (Facebook), Twiter, Snapchat, and YouTube $10 billion in revenue in the second half of 2021.
During its recent earnings call, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that Apple’s privacy rules are “negatively affecting” the social media giant’s sales growth. Zuckerberg continued Facebook’s line of attack on Apple, reiterating his claim that consumer-friendly privacy policies don’t only impact the Masters of the Universe, but also small businesses.
The CEO of Snap, the company behind the popular Snapchat social media platform, claims that Apple’s recently introduced App Tracking Transparency system is having a negative effect on his company’s revenue. Apple’s consumer privacy settings are impacting all tech companies reliant on advertising, including the Masters of the Universe at Facebook. The company’s stock is trading down more than 22 percent following the news.
A recent report claims that hackers abused Apple’s developer program in order to operate a dating app scam that resulted in the theft of more than a million dollars from victims.
Makers of apps that allow users to read and listen to the Bible and Quran, including Amazon’s Audible, announced Friday they had removed such apps from China’s Apple Store citing Chinese government “permit requirements.”
South Korean regulators are expected to take issue with Apple in the coming weeks following recently passed laws that state smartphone vendors must allow app developers to use third-party payment processors. Google has told the country it intends to comply with the law, but Apple is courting a fight over its stranglehold over developers.
A group of cybersecurity researchers recently stated that Apple’s planned iCloud photo scanning tech designed to detect images of child sexual abuse is “invasive, ineffective, and dangerous.”
In a recent interview, Tesla co-founder and former chief technical officer JB Straubel explained why Apple isn’t building its iPhones in the United States even though he believes they “absolutely” could.
Tech giant Apple has reportedly made it easier for users to report scam apps across the iOS App Store.
According to a recent report from the Wall Street Journal, tech giant Apple is making major moves in the video game space despite not actively developing any games itself. The Silicon Valley giant earned more profits from games in 2019 than Microsoft’s XBox, Sony’s Playstation, Nintendo, and Activision Blizzard all combined.
Several suppliers of Apple and Tesla have been forced to suspend production at Chinese factories in recent days to comply with strict energy rationing mandated by local governments in response to a nationwide power crisis, Reuters reported Monday.
Tech giant Apple has reportedly decided to leave Fortnite banned from its App Store until its legal battle with the game’s developer Epic Games is resolved — a process that could take up to five years to complete.
FTC Chair Lina Khan sent a memo to staff this week in which she called for the agency to focus on power imbalances and address the “structural dominance” of big companies. The memo’s mention of “next generation technologies” implies a heavy emphasis on the Big Tech Masters of the Universe.
A horde of Hollywood elites, including Leonardo DeCaprio, Lady Gaga, Barbra Streisand, Justin Timberlake, Billie Eilish, and more, have signed onto an open letter demanding corporations like Facebook, Apple, WarnerMedia, Netflix, Walt Disney, Amazon, and ViacomCBS to pressure congress to pass the Joe Biden White House’s environmental agenda.
In a recently leaked memo, Apple CEO Tim Cook stated that Apple was working hard to find anyone who leaks information saying that they “do not belong” at the company.
Tech giant Facebook has claimed that Apple’s new privacy terms are likely to cause further issues for the company’s ad business in the third quarter.
Tech giant Apple is reportedly working on new technology that aims to help diagnose depression and cognitive decline in its users through facial recognition and other sensors built into its future devices.
The Wall Street Journal claims that tech giant Apple threatened to remove Facebook from its App Store in 2019 following reports of human trafficking taking place across the social media giant’s platform.
Russia’s government on Friday praised Google and Apple for removing a “tactical voting app” designed by Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s team ahead of the country’s legislative election.
According to a message posted on an internal Apple employee message board, the woke Silicon Valley giant is “actively monitoring” the legal challenges to the recently passed Texas abortion law.
A recent article from Wired outlines how tech giants including Google and Apple are finding themselves increasingly under the scrutiny of global antitrust regulators. When countries like South Korea force tech giants to change policies within the country such as easing their stranglehold over app developers, the changes often occur on a global level.
Tech giant Apple has issued an emergency software patch to block “zero-click” spyware that could affect iOS devices. Here’s how to update your iPhone or iPad.
Apple has been ordered to ease its tight restrictions on app developers by a judge’s ruling in the trial between Fortnite developer Epic Games and the Masters of the Universe.
Apple has stated that it won’t let Epic Games bring the megapopular Fortnite video game back to the App Store until the company agrees to “play by the same rules as everyone else.”
Tech giant Apple has reportedly fired senior engineering program manager Ashley Gjøvik for allegedly leaking confidential company information. Gjøvik had previously gone public with allegations of workplace discrimination against the woke Silicon Valley giant.
Apple will reportedly be delaying the rollout of its plan to scan iPhones and other devices for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) following backlash from privacy advocates, journalists, and the general public.
Tech giant Apple is reportedly facing a probe from the U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) over allegedly hostile working conditions. The woke Silicon Valley giant has been targeted by its own employees as part of the #AppleToo movement.
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has taken issue with the recent changes to Apple’s App Store, which free app developers to offer alternative payment options, stating that the changes are a “step in the right direction,” but still don’t address the issues that he and many others have with the Masters of the Universe.
A recent lawsuit alleges that the virtual assistants of tech companies like Apple and Google are listening in on users even when they’re not supposed to.
In a major policy shift, tech giant Apple has announced that it will allow music, video, and other media apps to direct users towards sign-up pages on their websites. This will allow companies like Spotify and Netflix to bypass Apple’s 15 to 30 percent payment processing fee.
South Korea has officially passed a bill designed to prevent tech giants like Google and Apple from forcing app developers to exclusively use the internet giant’s own payment systems.
A recent report has revealed that Apple’s App Store has seen significant success in recent months with consumers spending $41.5 billion in the first half of 2021 alone, almost double that of the Google Play Store. Apple’s App Store sales are up more than 22 percent even as the iPhone giant faces lawsuits and government regulations over the stranglehold it maintains on iOS app developers.