Earlier this year Apple reported that the Apple Watch sold more in the last quarter of 2017 than the entire Swiss watch industry combined, surpassing legacy giants such as Rolex and Swatch. This came as a pleasant surprise for the makers of a gadget heavily criticized in the beginning for not performing well in sales […]
Read moreThe U.S. Senate Commerce Committee demanded that Facebook‘s chief executive officer respond to a report that user data was shared with at least 60 device manufacturers, weeks after the social media company said it would change its practices after a political firm got access to data from millions of users. Senators John Thune, the Republican […]
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One of the world’s largest digital currency exchanges shut down briefly Tuesday morning due to a cyber attack. Bitfinex was targeted in what’s known as a DDoS, or a distributed denial-of-service attack, which overwhelms a system with multiple virus-infected servers. “The previous outage was caused by issues with one of our infrastructure providers,” the company […]
Read moreMicrosoft was not alone in chasing GitHub, which it agreed to acquire for $7.5 billion on Monday. Representatives from Alphabet‘s Google were also talking to the company about an acquisition in recent weeks, according to people familiar with the deal talks. The talks for GitHub went on for several weeks, according to several other people […]
Read moreThe economy could continue to expand for another one to three years, but the Trump administration trade policy could prove to be one of the “flies in the ointment” that ends the recovery, according to JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. Dimon, chairman of the Business Roundtable, made the comments on a conference call with reporters […]
Read moreApple CEO Tim Cook doesn’t expect the company’s flagship handset to get caught up in growing trade tensions with China. “I don’t think that [the] iPhone will get a tariff on it,” Cook told CNN in an interview Monday. “Based on what I’ve been told and what I see, I just don’t see that.” The […]
Read moreSophia the robot has become a cultural icon. The animatronic robot has made its way across late night stages, graced the cover of magazines, headlined major tech conferences and even delivered a speech to the United Nations. Sophia been touted as the future of AI, but it may be more of a social experiment masquerading […]
Read moreAmerican entrepreneurship has always pushed the boundaries of invention and ingenuity. It’s what spurred Henry Ford, in Dearborn, Michigan, to introduce the Model T, revolutionizing the automobile industry and the trajectory of what’s possible in transportation technology. A hundred years from now, when our great-grandkids are zipping around town in self-driving cars, we want them […]
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Putin says all sides have an interest in lifting sanctions on Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday Russia had overcome all hardship related to Western sanctions as he spoke at a news conference in Vienna after talks with Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen. Asked about European Union sanctions imposed on Russia, Putin said sanctions and protectionist measures are harmful to all sides involved and […]
Read moreBroadcom will handle all of Apple’s need for a class of chip in its new iPhones, according to J.P. Morgan, spelling revenue of $10 per phone for the chipmaker. The semiconductor company will maintain total share of non-radio frequency chips used in the upcoming generation of Apple’s phones, thereby becoming the sole provider of wireless […]
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