Monday February 3, 2025 Sweet 16: Apple reported record-breaking sales for 4Q24, the first full quarter its new iPhone 16 models were available. While iPhone sales were $69.1 billion, a tad down from $69.7 billion recorded the same period in 2023, CEO Tim Cook noted, “We’ve never seen a higher level of upgraders before. The […]
Monday January 27, 2025 Meta responded to Facebook and Instagram users who were upset to discover they were suddenly following accounts for President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and other accounts for the new administration – and were unable to unfollow them. “People were not made to automatically follow any of the official Facebook […]
Monday January 20, 2025 Well, that was quick. About 12 hours after TikTok went dark – “Sorry, TikTok isn’t available right now,” read a message from the company as a January 19 ban went into effect – service was being restored. The reversal came after then-president-elect Trump said he would issue an executive order to […]
Monday January 13, 2025 Mark Zuckerberg defended Meta’s elimination of its fact-checking program during a three-hour interview on Joe Rogan’s podcast last week. The company succumbed to “massive, massive institutional pressure to basically start censoring content on ideological grounds” after the 2016 election and Brexit in the UK, said the Meta CEO, adding that he […]
Monday December 16, 2024 The CEOs of Alphabet and Apple received letters on Friday advising them that they must be prepared to remove TikTok from their US app stores on January 19. The bipartisan missives came from members of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, and referred to the decision by the […]
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Monday November 25, 2024 The Justice Department asked the federal judge overseeing an antitrust case against Google to order the company to sell off its Chrome browser; to allow websites to opt out of having data trained by its Google’s AI models; and either have Google divest its Android phones business or have the court […]
Monday November 18, 2024 X competitor Bluesky is getting a big bump as X users flee Elon Musk’s social media platform post-election. Bluesky has grown from about nine million users in September to 15 million last week, reaching the #2 spot among iPhone apps last Monday, up from #27 on November 6. But while some […]
Monday November 11, 2024 Just in time for the holidays, Xumo has teamed up with Target to offer Hisense Xumo TVs, a budget-friendly 4K UHD smart TV. Hisense Xumo TVs will launch starting next week, available in 55” and 65” models and be priced at $249.99 and $359.99, respectively. “The growing fragmentation of content on […]
Monday November 4, 2024 Disney has formed a dedicated emerging technologies group to coordinate the company’s use of next-gen tech like artificial intelligence and mixed reality. The Office of Technology Enablement will be headed by Jamie Voris, the film studio’s Chief Technology Officer. “The pace and scope of the advances in AI and XR (extended […]
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