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House lawmakers highlight three ways to keep Big Tech antitrust concerns in check

The US House Judiciary Committee held a major hearing regarding big tech antitrust concerns in the summer of 2020. The hearing included testimonials from Apple’s Tim Cook, Alphabet/Google’s Sundar Pichai, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. The antitrust subcommittee…

Facebook launches new ad campaign to highlight importance of personalized ads ahead of Apple’s ATT feature launch

by Asma Hussain

Facebook has just announced it is launching a new PR campaign that will highlight the importance of personalized ads for small businesses. The new campaign indirectly seems to be an attack on Apple’s upcoming App Tracking Transparency (ATT) feature. ATT…

Judge orders Valve to produce Steam data for Apple in Epic Games lawsuit

by Asma Hussain

Apple has been granted its request for data on 436 games sold through Steam, a game store on Mac and PC that distributes games developed by Valve and other companies. As per a judge’s ruling, Valve will be forced to…

Apple’s decision to pass on Netflix acquisition is deemed its biggest mistake by analyst Dan Ives

by Asma Hussain

Apple’s biggest mistake over the last 10-12 years was not acquiring Netflix says Wedbush analyst Dan Ives. In a recent interview with Yahoo Finance, Ives says that acquiring Netflix would have made Apple a much strong competitor against rivals like…

“Sign in with Apple” under investigation by US DOJ over antitrust complaints

by Asma Hussain

Apple has been hit with antitrust claims by several developers over its privacy-oriented feature, “Sign in with Apple”. Apple introduced “Sign in with Apple” back in 2019 as a sign-in tool that allowed users to log in to third-party websites…

Epic Games seeks testimony from former iOS Chief Scott Forstall for its case against Apple

by Asma Hussain

A new development in the legal battle between Epic Games and Apple is that the developer is trying to seek testimony from former SVP of iOS Scott Forstall. However, there seems to be a problem locating Forstall who left Apple…

2021 MacBook Pro will regain SD card reader and HDMI port – Kuo

by Asma Hussain

A recent report from TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claims that Apple is planning to bring back both the SD card slot and the HDMI port to its new MacBook Pro models, later this year. The current 16-inch MacBook Pro…

Apple beats Samsung and becomes the world’s largest smartphone maker in Q4 2020

by Asma Hussain

According to a recent report from market research firm Gartner, Apple shipped more smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2020 than any other company. The tech giant shipped nearly 80 million units in the quarter, surpassing all other smartphone manufacturers…

COVID-19: Apple-funded COPAN ships 15 million coronavirus sample collection kits

by Asma Hussain

In May of 2020, Apple invested $10 million in COPAN Diagnostics to manufacture COVID-19 sample collection kits. In addition to this, the tech giant also sent engineers to the diagnostics firm to help speed up the production process at a…

Apple to crack down on apps with ‘Irrationally’ high prices to rid App Store of scam apps

by Asma Hussain

Apple’s App Store gives developers a ton of control by allowing them to price their apps, as high as they want. Having said that, most apps are priced fairly since there is a ton of competition on the platform. Unfortunately,…