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Charges of dominance mar Apple’s $2 trillion success under Tim Cook

Berkeley: When Tim Cook took over after Steve Jobs’ death in 2011, Apple was worth just under $400 billion; it’s worth five times more than that today, and has just…

admin August 24, 2020

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Facebook, Twitter, YouTube prepare to tackle Trump attacks if he doesn’t ‘go quietly’

San Francisco: Twitter on Friday said it is bracing for efforts by President Donald Trump or others to attack the integrity of the US election, as US media reported that…

admin August 22, 2020

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Facebook removes Trump’s post for the first time, Twitter blocks his campaign account

San Francisco: Facebook and Twitter took aim at US President Donald Trump and his campaign Wednesday over a video post in which he contended that children are “almost immune” to…

admin August 6, 2020

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Trump wants a big cut from TikTok US’ sale for the treasury

Washington: President Donald Trump has demanded that the US treasury get a substantial chunk of the TikTok sale proceeds, as he set a September 15 as the deadline for the…

admin August 4, 2020

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Microsoft in talks to buy TikTok’s US business, say reports

New York: Amid reports that President Donald Trump will order China’s ByteDance to sell its hit video app TikTok’s US operations because of national-security concerns, Microsoft has emerged as a…

admin August 1, 2020

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Australia unveils law forcing Google and Facebook to pay for news content

Sydney/Canberra: Australia unveiled a draft law Friday to force Google and Facebook to pay news media for their content in a “world-leading” initiative sure to prompt a confrontation with the…

admin July 31, 2020

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NASA launches most sophisticated Mars rover to look for signs of ancient life

Cape Canaveral, Florida: The biggest, most sophisticated Mars rover ever built — a car-size vehicle bristling with cameras, microphones, drills and lasers — blasted off for the red planet Thursday…

admin July 30, 2020

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Twitter follows Facebook, removes virus video retweeted by Trump

Washington: Twitter said Tuesday it had withdrawn a video retweeted by President Donald Trump in which doctors made allegedly false claims about the coronavirus pandemic, after Facebook took similar action.…

admin July 28, 2020

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Government bans 47 more Chinese mobile apps

New Delhi: India has banned 47 more Chinese apps just weeks after blocking the highly popular video-sharing platform TikTok and 58 others over national security and privacy concerns, an information…

admin July 27, 2020

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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak sues YouTube over bitcoin scams using his image

SAN RAMON, California: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is launching a legal attack against Google’s YouTube video site for allowing con artists to use him as a pawn in a Bitcoin…

admin July 24, 2020

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Twitter crackdown no use, QAnon now among conservative mainstream

Washington: Twitter’s decision to crack down on the conspiracy-theory mongering of QAnon underscores the loose-knit group’s increasing reach into the mainstream of US politics. From an anonymous 2017 posting claiming…

admin July 23, 2020