iPhone update adds ‘pregnant man’ emoji, other gender neutral cartoons
Apple's latest iPhone update added several gender neutral emoji.
Corporations Find Their Spine Against Russia But Stay Silent in China
Apple, Google, Airbnb, and many other companies cut off Russian customers this week in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Apple pulls Russian state-owned media outlets RT and Sputnik from global App Stores
Apple pulls Russian state-owned media outlets RT and Sputnik from global App Stores After days of mounting pressure on tech companies to take further action against Russia in the wake of its invasion into Ukraine, Apple today confirmed it will remove the Kremlin-based media outlets Russia Today (RT News) and Sputnik News from the App Store in all markets outside Russia itself. The [...]
Google is adopting privacy changes on Android similar to the ones Apple made on iPhone that cost Facebook billions of dollars
In April 2021, Apple enabled iPhone users to choose which apps are allowed to track their behavior across other apps. As a result, the vast majority of users opted out.
Somebody Give Gary Gensler A Drug Test
No one can regulate this hard, this fast without chemical assistance.
Shareholder Voices Poised to Grow Louder With SEC’s Help
The regulator scrapped some mechanisms companies use to shoot down shareholder proposals, giving nonexecutives a megaphone on social and other issues.
The ad-based internet: is the roof caving in?
Another week, another industry-shaking antitrust bill from Senate Judiciary: This time, it's the Open App Store Act, and Mark MacCarthy reports that it's got more bipartisan support than the last one. Maybe that's because there are only two losers, and probably only one really big loser: Apple. The bill would force an end to Apple's app store monopoly. Apple says that would mean less privacy and security for users; Mark thinks there's something to that, but Bruce Schneier thinks that's hogwash. Our panel is mostly on Bruce's side of the debate. Meanwhile, Apple's real contribution to the debate is the enormous middle finger it's extending to other regulators trying to rein in Apple's app store fees.
Woke Corporations Top List of Companies Complicit in Chinese Human Rights Violations
Woke Corporations Top List of Companies Complicit in Chinese Human Rights Violations The human rights watchdog group Victims of Communism released their list of businesses that are most complicit in standing by as China and other communist countries exploit their citizens. Many of the listed companies fall silent on China’s abuses while hounding American companies to be woke, including [...]
Apple Tells Employees They Have “Four Weeks To Comply” After Becoming Eligible For Booster Shots
Apple is one of the first major corporations going on the record and telling its employees that it doesn't just need to see proof of vaccination, but now it also needs proof of a booster shot. The company is requiring boosters for store and corporate employees, according to an internal email seen by The Verge.Employees have "four weeks to comply" once they become eligible for booster shots, or else they will have to take "frequent tests to enter a retail store, partner store, or Apple office starting on February 15th," the report says.
Apple iPhone factory workers ate rotten food in rat-filled dorms: investigation
Indian women assembling Apple iPhones had to survive off worm-infested food while living in rat-filled dorms without running water — all for less than $5 a day, according to a new investigation.
The race to $3 trillion: Big Tech keeps getting bigger
Microsoft (MSFT) is now worth a smidge more than Apple (AAPL), making the Satya Nadella-led cloud software giant the world's most valuable company. Both companies are worth about $2.5 trillion.
Google worked with Facebook to undermine Apple’s attempts to offer its users greater privacy protections, complaint alleges
Google worked with Facebook to undermine Apple's attempts to offer its users great privacy protections, 12 state attorneys general alleged in an update to an antitrust lawsuit against the search engine.
Consumer Agency to Probe Tech Giants Including Apple, Facebook
Big tech companies are facing questions from the government on another front: how they use consumers’ financial and other information.
Yahoo news app, one of the last sources of Western news in China, is removed from Apple store amid censorship drive
Chinese internet users have lost one of their last avenues to foreign news after the Yahoo Finance app disappeared from Apple’s store, as the Communist Party intensifies its censorship of information from abroad.
Apple Wanted Her Fired. It Settled on an Absurd Excuse
It wasn’t hard to tell which way the wind was blowing. Ashley Gjøvik had even been warned. Somewhere inside Apple, friends and coworkers assured her, higher-ups were having a conversation about how to force her out of her job. There was even consensus among these allies about the route they would take, that she’d violated her confidentiality agreement or placed some proprietary asset at risk.