Today: September 21, 2024
Today: September 21, 2024

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Netflix now has nearly 270 million subscribers after another strong showing to begin 2024

Netflix gained another 9.3 million subscribers to start the year while its still-emerging expansion into advertising helped produce financial results that exceeded analysts’ estimates

Netflix now has nearly 270 million subscribers after another strong showing to begin 2024
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Why Apple is pushing the term 'spatial computing' along with its new Vision Pro headset

With Apple’s hotly anticipated Vision Pro headset hitting store shelves Friday, you’re probably to start to see more people wearing the futuristic googles that are supposed to usher in the age of “spatial computing.”

Why Apple is pushing the term 'spatial computing' along with its new Vision Pro headset
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Apple ends yearlong sales slump with slight revenue rise in holiday-season period but stock slips

Apple snapped out of a yearlong sales funk during its holiday-season quarter

Apple ends yearlong sales slump with slight revenue rise in holiday-season period but stock slips
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Google's parent posts double-digit revenue growth in a quarter for first time in nearly 2 years

Google’s corporate parent returned to double-digit revenue growth during last year’s final quarter

Google's parent posts double-digit revenue growth in a quarter for first time in nearly 2 years
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Netflix's gains 13M new global 4Q subscribers as it unwraps its best-ever holiday season results

Netflix has registered its third-consecutive quarter of accelerating subscriber growth in the final three months of 2023

Netflix's gains 13M new global 4Q subscribers as it unwraps its best-ever holiday season results
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Apple's Vision Pro headset launches next month as company seeks to expand mixed-reality market

Apple’s high-priced headset for toggling between the real and digital world will be available in its stores beginning Feb. 2, launching the trendsetting company’s push to broaden the appeal of what so far has been a niche technology

Apple's Vision Pro headset launches next month as company seeks to expand mixed-reality market
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Apple's sales fall for the fourth straight quarter despite a strong start for latest iPhones

Apple’s sales remained on a downward slope during the summer

Apple's sales fall for the fourth straight quarter despite a strong start for latest iPhones
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Google's ad sales growth accelerated in 3Q, but investors are unimpressed with the performance

Google’s digital advertising sales growth accelerated during the summer, advancing a recent revival that helped its corporate parent Alphabet Inc. to deliver a quarterly profit that exceeded analysts' projections

Google's ad sales growth accelerated in 3Q, but investors are unimpressed with the performance
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What Google’s antitrust trial means for your search habits

If government regulators prevail in the biggest U.S. antitrust trial in a quarter century, it’s likely to unleash drastic changes designed to undermining the dominance of the Google search engine that defines the internet for billions of people

What Google’s antitrust trial means for your search habits
Science|Technology

Apple leaps into AI with an array of upcoming iPhone features and a ChatGPT deal to smarten up

Apple has jumped into the race to bring generative artificial intelligence to the masses

Apple leaps into AI with an array of upcoming iPhone features and a ChatGPT deal to smarten up
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Judges hear Elizabeth Holmes' appeal of fraud conviction while she remains in Texas prison

A panel of federal judges have spent two hours wrestling with a series of legal issues raised in an attempt to overturn a fraud conviction that sent Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes to prison after a meteoric rise to Silicon Valley stardom

Judges hear Elizabeth Holmes' appeal of fraud conviction while she remains in Texas prison
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Judge grills Apple exec about whether company is defying order to enable more iPhone payment options

A federal judge on Wednesday questioned whether Apple has set up a gauntlet of exasperating hurdles to discourage the use of alternative payment options in iPhone apps, despite a court order seeking to create more ways for consumers to pay for digital services

Judge grills Apple exec about whether company is defying order to enable more iPhone payment options
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Apple's quarterly iPhone sales plunge 10%, but stock price surges on dividend, stock buyback news

Apple has posted its steepest quarterly decline in iPhone sales since the pandemic’s outset

Apple's quarterly iPhone sales plunge 10%, but stock price surges on dividend, stock buyback news
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Google and Apple now threatened by the US antitrust laws that helped build their technology empires

The U.S. Justice Department has launched a double-barreled antitrust attack on Google’s dominant search and Apple’s trendsetting iPhone

Google and Apple now threatened by the US antitrust laws that helped build their technology empires
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Google fires 28 workers in aftermath of protests over big tech deal with Israeli government

Google has fired 28 employees in the aftermath of protests over technology that the internet company is supplying the Israeli government amid the Gaza war, further escalating tensions surrounding a hot-button deal

Google fires 28 workers in aftermath of protests over big tech deal with Israeli government
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Google to purge billions of files containing personal data in settlement of Chrome privacy case

Google has agreed to purge billions of records containing personal information collected from more than 136 million people in the U.S. surfing the internet through its Chrome web browser

Google to purge billions of files containing personal data in settlement of Chrome privacy case
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Gmail revolutionized email 20 years ago. People thought it was Google's April Fool's Day joke

Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fool’s Day not long after starting their company more than a quarter century ago

Gmail revolutionized email 20 years ago. People thought it was Google's April Fool's Day joke
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Reddit, the self-anointed the 'front page of the internet,' set to make its stock market debut

Reddit and its eclectic bazaar of online communities is ready to plumb high-stakes territory — the stock market

Reddit, the self-anointed the 'front page of the internet,' set to make its stock market debut
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Reddit poised to make its stock market debut after IPO prices at $34 per share amid strong demand

Reddit will enter a new era as a publicly traded company with a market value of $6.4 billion

Reddit poised to make its stock market debut after IPO prices at $34 per share amid strong demand
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The inside story of a rotten Hewlett Packard deal to be told in trial of fallen British tech star

An $11 billion acquisition that backfired on Silicon Valley pioneer Hewlett Packard more than a decade ago is being resurrected at a trial that exploring whether the deal was an illegal rip-off or a case of botched management

The inside story of a rotten Hewlett Packard deal to be told in trial of fallen British tech star
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Apple to pay $490 million to settle allegations that it misled investors about iPhone sales in China

Apple has agreed to pay $490 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging CEO Tim Cook misled investors about a steep downturn in iPhone’s sales in China

Apple to pay $490 million to settle allegations that it misled investors about iPhone sales in China
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Apple reverses course and clears way for Epic Games to set up rival iPhone app store in Europe

Apple has reversed course under regulatory pressure and cleared the way for a nettlesome adversary, video game maker Epic Games, to set up an alternative store for iPhone apps in Europe

Apple reverses course and clears way for Epic Games to set up rival iPhone app store in Europe
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Apple is making big App Store changes in Europe over new rules. Could it mean more iPhone hacking?

Apple is opening small cracks in the iPhone’s digital fortress as part of a regulatory clampdown in Europe that’s striving to give consumers more choices

Apple is making big App Store changes in Europe over new rules. Could it mean more iPhone hacking?
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Peace, music and memories: As the 1960s fade, historians scramble to capture Woodstock's voices

An estimated 450,000 people attended the Woodstock festival in August 1969

Peace, music and memories: As the 1960s fade, historians scramble to capture Woodstock's voices
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'Burn Book' torches tech titans in veteran reporter's tale of love and loathing in Silicon Valley

Technology is so pervasive and invasive that it’s polarizing people, producing feelings of love and loathing for its devices, online services and the would-be visionaries behind them

'Burn Book' torches tech titans in veteran reporter's tale of love and loathing in Silicon Valley

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