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Apple Accused of Limiting Russian Users’ Banking Options

April 04, 2024
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Apple Insists It Complies With EU’s Digital Markets Act
Apple // March 18, 2024

Apple is defending its practices under Europe’s newly adopted Digital Markets Act (DMA). At a hearing Monday (March 18), the tech giant said that it has followed the landmark law, and pushed back against criticisms that it had not done enough to open its ecosystems to others,...

Report: Apple Removes Generative AI Apps From China App Store
artificial intelligence // August 01, 2023

Apple has reportedly removed more than 100 generative artificial intelligence (AI) apps from its China app store. The move was made Tuesday (Aug. 1) and comes ahead of China’s new regulation of generative AI that will be implemented in two weeks, the South China Morning...

Justice Department Steps Up Apple Antitrust Probe
ANTITRUST // February 15, 2023

A federal investigation targeting Apple is reportedly escalating amid a wave of corporate antitrust actions. While the U.S. Justice Department probe into the iPhone maker is a few years old, it has in recent months seen an escalation, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Wednesday (Feb. 15), citing...

Apple’s Surging Services Not Enough to Offset iPhone Weakness
Apple // February 02, 2023

Showing little immunity to macroeconomic headwinds crimping its hardware side, Apple services including payments and subscriptions showed strength in its fiscal 2023 first quarter. On its FY23 Q1 earnings call on Thursday (Feb. 2), Apple CEO Tim Cook said revenue of $117.2 billion for the...

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UpKeep Helps Facilities Maintenance Go Digital

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Some innovative entrepreneurs are just born that way. They were the kids who founded lemonade stands before they could count or make lemonade by themselves and who dropped out of Ivy League schools for fear they were wasting the most productive years of their lives sitting in a classroom listening to a boring professor. Others, like UpKeep CEO and Founder Ryan […]

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Apple Accused of Limiting Russian Users’ Banking Options

April 04, 2024
Russia says the country’s Apple users don’t have full access to payments and banking services. As Reuters reported Thursday (April 4), Russia’s antitrust regulator, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), has written to Apple about the issue. The report notes that the FAS has fined Apple $26 million in the last two years, alleging the company abuses its dominant […]

Apple Insists It Complies With EU’s Digital Markets Act

March 18, 2024
Apple is defending its practices under Europe’s newly adopted Digital Markets Act (DMA). At a hearing Monday (March 18), the tech giant said that it has followed the landmark law, and pushed...

Report: Apple Removes Generative AI Apps From China App Store

August 01, 2023
Apple has reportedly removed more than 100 generative artificial intelligence (AI) apps from its China app store. The move was made Tuesday (Aug. 1) and comes ahead of China’s new...

Justice Department Steps Up Apple Antitrust Probe

February 15, 2023
A federal investigation targeting Apple is reportedly escalating amid a wave of corporate antitrust actions. While the U.S. Justice Department probe into the iPhone maker is a few years old, it has...