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Even as market jitters over the DeepSeek sell-off dragged down tech stocks, industry giants posted robust earnings this week, with several reporting billion-dollar revenue gains driven by sustained demand for AI and cloud infrastructure. -
Apple and Google are the subjects of an investigation under the UK competition watchdog’s new digital markets competition regime, with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) probing its dominance in the mobile market.
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Alibaba Cloud, Apple, and Synopsys have become the latest big tech firms to join the industry group attempting to create an open standard around GPU interconnectivity.
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Apple’s $1.5 billion investment in satellite communications firm Globalstar, changes the direct-to-device (D2D) satellite game according to Emma Mohr-McClune, chief analyst of technology at GlobalData.
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Apple will invest US$1.5 billion in Globalstar, the satellite operator enabling its iPhones' emergency SOS and messaging capabilities when cellular coverage is unavailable.
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Apple’s IoS18 update, announced at its WWDC 2024 event this week, will support satellite-based messaging services.
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There were 2,416,135 cases of people infected with Covid-19 and 165,939 dead, as of 20 April, 12:35 (BST).
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Reduced demand for electronic devices brought about by the global Covid-19 pandemic, has pushed Samsung to register its lowest Q1 profits in five years.
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As with other sectors, the telecoms, data and tech industries have faced huge disruptions over recent weeks, from Nokia’s cancelled AGM to the postponement of France’s 5G network auction and Samsung’s Foundry Forum.
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Following weeks of suspended production lines, store closures and profit warnings, the headaches continued this week for Apple when the tech giant and two of its partners were issued with huge fines.
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After Apple, Samsung, Schneider Electric and other major technology companies confirmed they had been hit financially by the the spreading virus, it’s now Microsoft’s turn.
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People in six major countries have told the mobile industry’s trade association they are happy with 4G and don’t want to upgrade to 5G.
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The US Justice Department has begun an investigation into what it thinks may be anti-competitive actions by online platforms.
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Operators believe that cloud gaming could represent 25% to 50% of 5G data traffic by 2022, based on the rapid progression of cloud gaming services in recent months.
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Capital expenditure (capex) in the second quarter of 2018 grew by 59% compared to the same period maintaining a ‘record-setting’ start to the year
