Today: October 18, 2024
Today: October 18, 2024

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Apple's quarterly iPhone sales plunge 10%, but stock price surges on dividend, stock buyback news

Apple has posted its steepest quarterly decline in iPhone sales since the pandemic’s outset

Apple's quarterly iPhone sales plunge 10%, but stock price surges on dividend, stock buyback news
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Google parent reports another quarter of accelerating growth and its stock price soars

Google’s corporate parent Alphabet Inc. has released a quarterly report showing it’s still reaping double-digit revenue gains from its digital advertising empire while sowing potentially lucrative new ground in artificial intelligence

Google parent reports another quarter of accelerating growth and its stock price soars
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Netflix now has nearly 270 million subscribers after another strong showing to begin 2024

Netflix gained another 9.3 million subscribers to start the year while its still-emerging expansion into advertising helped produce financial results that exceeded analysts’ estimates

Netflix now has nearly 270 million subscribers after another strong showing to begin 2024
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Gmail revolutionized email 20 years ago. People thought it was Google's April Fool's Day joke

Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fool’s Day not long after starting their company more than a quarter century ago

Gmail revolutionized email 20 years ago. People thought it was Google's April Fool's Day joke
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Reddit, the self-anointed the 'front page of the internet,' set to make its stock market debut

Reddit and its eclectic bazaar of online communities is ready to plumb high-stakes territory — the stock market

Reddit, the self-anointed the 'front page of the internet,' set to make its stock market debut
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The inside story of a rotten Hewlett Packard deal to be told in trial of fallen British tech star

An $11 billion acquisition that backfired on Silicon Valley pioneer Hewlett Packard more than a decade ago is being resurrected at a trial that exploring whether the deal was an illegal rip-off or a case of botched management

The inside story of a rotten Hewlett Packard deal to be told in trial of fallen British tech star
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Apple to pay $490 million to settle allegations that it misled investors about iPhone sales in China

Apple has agreed to pay $490 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging CEO Tim Cook misled investors about a steep downturn in iPhone’s sales in China

Apple to pay $490 million to settle allegations that it misled investors about iPhone sales in China
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Apple reverses course and clears way for Epic Games to set up rival iPhone app store in Europe

Apple has reversed course under regulatory pressure and cleared the way for a nettlesome adversary, video game maker Epic Games, to set up an alternative store for iPhone apps in Europe

Apple reverses course and clears way for Epic Games to set up rival iPhone app store in Europe
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CEOs of OpenAI and Intel cite artificial intelligence's voracious appetite for processing power

Two tech CEOs scrambling to produce more of the sophisticated chips needed for artificial intelligence have met for a brainstorming session while the market’s early leader reported another quarter of eye-popping growth

CEOs of OpenAI and Intel cite artificial intelligence's voracious appetite for processing power
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Ex-Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer discusses the current tech scene from vantage point of her AI startup

Marissa Mayer has long been an inspiration for innovative women battling to break through the gender barriers in the male-dominated technology industry

Ex-Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer discusses the current tech scene from vantage point of her AI startup
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Cisco Systems to lay off more than 4,000 workers in latest sign of tighter times in tech

Internet networking pioneer Cisco Systems is jettisoning more than 4,000 employees

Cisco Systems to lay off more than 4,000 workers in latest sign of tighter times in tech
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GM's troubled robotaxi service faces another round of public ridicule in regulatoryhearing

General Motors’ troubled robotaxi service Cruise on Tuesday endured a public lashing from a California judge who compared the company to the devious TV character Eddie Haskell for its behavior following a ghastly collision that wrecked its ambitious expansion plans

GM's troubled robotaxi service faces another round of public ridicule in regulatoryhearing
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Why Apple is pushing the term 'spatial computing' along with its new Vision Pro headset

With Apple’s hotly anticipated Vision Pro headset hitting store shelves Friday, you’re probably to start to see more people wearing the futuristic googles that are supposed to usher in the age of “spatial computing.”

Why Apple is pushing the term 'spatial computing' along with its new Vision Pro headset
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Apple ends yearlong sales slump with slight revenue rise in holiday-season period but stock slips

Apple snapped out of a yearlong sales funk during its holiday-season quarter

Apple ends yearlong sales slump with slight revenue rise in holiday-season period but stock slips
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Google's parent posts double-digit revenue growth in a quarter for first time in nearly 2 years

Google’s corporate parent returned to double-digit revenue growth during last year’s final quarter

Google's parent posts double-digit revenue growth in a quarter for first time in nearly 2 years
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Apple will open iPhone to alternative app stores, lower fees in Europe to comply with regulations

Apple has unveiled a sweeping plan to tear down some of the competitive barriers that it has built around its lucrative iPhone franchise

Apple will open iPhone to alternative app stores, lower fees in Europe to comply with regulations
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Netflix's gains 13M new global 4Q subscribers as it unwraps its best-ever holiday season results

Netflix has registered its third-consecutive quarter of accelerating subscriber growth in the final three months of 2023

Netflix's gains 13M new global 4Q subscribers as it unwraps its best-ever holiday season results
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Apple to disable blood-oxygen feature on premium watches sold in US as part of patent dispute

Apple says it will disable a blood-oxygen monitoring feature on its two most popular watches in the U.S. beginning Thursday to comply with a court-ordered revival of a sales ban stemming from a patent dispute

Apple to disable blood-oxygen feature on premium watches sold in US as part of patent dispute
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Apple plans to remove sensor from some watch models depending on how a court rules in patent dispute

Apple is prepared to remove the blood-oxygen sensor from its internet-connected watches if a court doesn’t give it more leeway while it pursues a bid to overturn a ruling that has blocked its use of the technology

Apple plans to remove sensor from some watch models depending on how a court rules in patent dispute
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Apple's Vision Pro headset launches next month as company seeks to expand mixed-reality market

Apple’s high-priced headset for toggling between the real and digital world will be available in its stores beginning Feb. 2, launching the trendsetting company’s push to broaden the appeal of what so far has been a niche technology

Apple's Vision Pro headset launches next month as company seeks to expand mixed-reality market
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Google to pay $700 million to US states, consumers in app store settlement

Google has agreed to pay $700 million and make several other concessions to settle allegations that it had been stifling competition against its Android app store — the same issue that went to trial in another case that could result in even bigger changes

Google to pay $700 million to US states, consumers in app store settlement
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Apple to halt sales of its newest watches in US over patent dispute

If two of the latest Apple Watches are on your holiday shopping list, don’t dawdle for much longer because the devices won’t be available to buy in the U.S. later this week if the White House doesn’t intervene in an international patent dispute

Apple to halt sales of its newest watches in US over patent dispute
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GM's Cruise robotaxi service faces fine in alleged cover-up of San Francisco accident's severity

California regulators are alleging a San Francisco robotaxi service owned by General Motors covered up the severity of an accident involving one of its driverless cars, raising the specter they may add a fine to the recent suspension of its California license

GM's Cruise robotaxi service faces fine in alleged cover-up of San Francisco accident's severity
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CEO of Fortnite game maker casts Google as a 'crooked' bully in testimony during Android app trial

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has portrayed Google as a ruthless bully that resorts to shady tactics to protect a predatory payment system

CEO of Fortnite game maker casts Google as a 'crooked' bully in testimony during Android app trial
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai returns to court to defend internet company for second time in two weeks

Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Tuesday was summoned to federal court for the second time in two weeks to testify in an antitrust trial threatening to topple a pillar of an internet empire that he helped build

Google CEO Sundar Pichai returns to court to defend internet company for second time in two weeks

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