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Google acquires Fossil smartwatch tech for $40 million

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 18 06:00 AM

The move would give Google the potential to create its own branded smartwatches to compete against Apple, Fitbit and others in the wearable tech space. Read more »

Apple's Tim Cook calls for privacy bill with right to delete data

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 18 02:51 AM

Cook, writing in Time magazine, offered his view as the US Congress was set to consider tougher enforcement of privacy and data protection for online platforms. Read more »

Apple's Tim Cook got big pay bump in 2018: filing

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 09 03:08 PM

Apple's compensation committee cited the company's strong sales performance over the year in justifying the bonus. Read more »

Apple, Facebook propel Wall Street to three-week peak

Noel Randewich, Reuters
Posted at Jan 09 08:24 AM

The 3-day rally kicked off on Friday following robust US jobs data and dovish comments on interest rates by Federal Reserve chief Jerome Powell has lifted the S&P 500 by over 9 percent from 20-month lows touched around Christmas. Read more »

Apple CEO confident of prospects despite naysayers

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jan 09 07:58 AM

Shares of Apple nudged higher on Tuesday after Chief Executive Tim Cook touted the company's technology pipeline and characterized worries about the company's future as overwrought. Read more »

China's Huawei punishes employees for New Year tweet using iPhone

Sijia Jiang, Reuters
Updated as of Jan 04 01:57 PM

Huawei on New Year's Day wished followers a "Happy #2019" in a tweet marked sent "via Twitter for iPhone."   Read more »

Apple warning pummels markets worried about growth outlook

Ben Perry, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 04 08:07 AM

Technology stocks led a selloff in equities after Apple, blaming weaker iPhone sales in China, late on Wednesday cut its revenue forecast for the first time in nearly 12 years. Apple's US-listed shares closed down 10 percent. Read more »

Apple's bombshell and the trillion-dollar question

Rob Lever, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 04 08:01 AM

Apple's rare admission on Wednesday cited steeper-than-expected "economic deceleration" in China and emerging markets and noted that trade frictions between Washington and Beijing were taking a toll on its smartphone sales. Read more »

Cyber researcher cancels public talk on hacking Apple's Face ID

Jim Finkle and Stephen Nellis, Reuters
Posted at Jan 04 07:05 AM

A cyber security researcher canceled a hacking conference briefing on how he said he could crack biometric facial recognition on Apple Inc iPhones, at the request of his employer, which called the work "misleading." Read more »

Apple bombshell sends investors to safe havens, 'flash crash' jolts currencies

Josephine Mason and Helen Reid, Reuters
Posted at Jan 03 10:06 PM

Apple's rare warning on revenue rocked financial markets on Thursday, as investors sought safety in bonds and less risky assets amid renewed concerns about slowing global economic and corporate growth. Read more »

Yen soars, Aussie tumbles as fresh growth worries trigger FX 'flash crash'

Vatsal Srivastava, Reuters
Posted at Jan 03 10:12 AM

Charging the risk averse mood was Apple Inc's move on Wednesday to cut its sales forecast for its latest quarter, on slowing iPhone sales in China. That followed a series of surveys that showed factory activity weakening across much of Europe and Asia in December. Read more »

China weakness pressures global stocks as Apple cuts sales forecast

John Biers, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 03 07:20 AM

Apple, in an announcement after the US market closed, cited a surprising slowdown in China in the wake of the US-China trade war as a factor in trimming its revenue forecast.  Read more »

Apple cuts outlook, sees 'challenges' in China, emerging markets

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 03 07:14 AM

The rare revenue warnings from Apple suggested weaker-than-anticipated sales of iPhones and other gadgetry, in part because of trade frictions between Washington and Beijing. Read more »

Big Apple joins in ringing in New Year after rough 2018

Thomas Urbain, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 01 07:20 PM

NEW YORK - New York City's iconic crystal ball dropped as usual and rain-soaked crowds in Times Square cheered and smooched in celebration, as Americans joined revelers around the world in welcoming the New Year on Tuesday and saying goodbye to a tumultuous 2018. Read more »

The 10 most important gadgets that made 2018 an awesome year for tech geekery

Anton Chua
Updated as of Jan 03 06:58 PM

From the best-priced high-end phone (sorry its not the one you have) to the unfulfilled promise of The Playstation Classic — here’s a smart and sober list of this year’s significant tech offerings, successes or otherwise.  Read more »

Shenzhen, China's reform pioneer, leads tech revolution

Ludovic Ehret, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 26 08:33 AM

Shenzhen is again at the heart of a new policy aimed at turning China into a hi-tech innovator and shed its reputation as an assembly line for foreign companies or -- worse -- an imitator. Read more »

2018 Yearender: Mobile Technology - Smartphone wars

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 24 06:17 PM

Here are the trends that defined smartphones in 2018, and hinted at what's in store for the tech faithful next year. Read more »

'Kill your foster parents': Amazon's Alexa talks murder, sex in AI experiment

Jeffrey Dastin, Reuters
Posted at Dec 23 11:59 PM

New research is helping Alexa mimic human banter and talk about almost anything she finds on the internet. However, ensuring she does not offend users has been a challenge for the world's largest online retailer. Read more »

Apple to pull some iPhones in Germany as Qualcomm extends global wins

Jörn Poltz and Stephen Nellis, Reuters
Posted at Dec 21 12:36 PM

Chip supplier Qualcomm Inc won a second court skirmish in its worldwide patent battle with Apple Inc on Thursday, with the iPhone maker saying it would pull some older models from its German stores. Read more »

Facebook says preferential data access was with user permission

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 19 06:07 PM

Facebook Inc has said it did not give some companies access to people's data without their permission, after the New York Times reported on Tuesday that the social network allowed some large technology companies greater access to user data. Read more »