Apple’s Chief Executive Tim Cook said Monday that talk of regulating technology companies is “fair” — even though he disagrees with it — because issues around privacy have “gotten totally out of control.” “Generally, for me, I’m not a big fan of regulation, I think self-regulation is the best,” Cook said in a CNN interview. […]

Japan’s Sharp said it will buy Toshiba’s personal computer business and issue $1.8 billion in new shares to buy back preferred stock from banks, highlighting a swift recovery under the control of Foxconn. The acquisition of the PC business for $36 million marks a return by Sharp to a market it quit eight years ago, […]

The world’s largest esports company is looking to establish an ecosystem in Asia. Speaking with CNBC’s Dan Murphy, Frank Sliwka, the COO of Asia for ESL Gaming, said there is a “huge opportunity” for esports to grow in the regional emerging markets. “We have a lot of communities already established,” he said, “so it makes […]

Voice technology gadgets, including Amazon‘s Alexa and Google‘s Duplex, could get caught up in the next data protection battleground. The implementation of new data rules in Europe, coupled with increased consumer awareness following the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal, is helping to bring voice data privacy into the spotlight. Google recently made headlines when CEO […]

Washington state’s attorney general is suing Google and Facebook for allegedly failing to provide adequate public information about who buys election ads on their platforms. The complaints, filed by the office of Attorney General Bob Ferguson, claim the tech giants haven’t properly maintained and publicized information about who’s buying election ads. The incomplete data pertains […]

Apple said on Monday that its new health records service, which lets patients store personal medical data on their phone, will soon be open to app developers and researchers. Consumers who choose to make their encrypted data available to third-party apps, will share that information with developers working on tools like medication tracking, disease management, […]

Sorry, Apple’s not sorry. There has been a theme at the tech industry’s big conferences this year: Facebook and other tech giants keep telling us that they’ve learned from their mistakes and are going to be a lot more thoughtful about the far-out stuff they plan on doing in the future. Apple has been cool […]

CNBC’s Jim Cramer knows all too well that the market can’t be driven solely by FANG, his ubiquitous acronym for the stocks of Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, now Alphabet. “On a great day for the bulls where the Dow gained 178 points, the S&P advanced 0.45 percent, and the Nasdaq climbed 0.69 percent to […]

Times are changing at Apple. When co-founder Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, he famously pruned the product line to refocus the company on its most beloved products in categories like “consumer,” “pro,” “desktop, and “portable.” Those pieces of hardware would become the pillars of Jobs’ famous speeches and product reveals. His focus is […]

When we first met Apple‘s Siri assistant years ago, we learned how to interact with it in a very specific way: we asked it questions and it tried to answer. Now Siri is changing pretty drastically from that original vision, based on how Apple talked about it at its WWDC developers’ conference on Monday. Instead […]