Tag: Apple

San Francisco: Contrary to the reports of Apple launching a video subscription product in 2018 to counter Netflix, analysts from Citi have said that the iPhone maker could possibly buy the entertainment company by taking advantage of US President Donald Trump’s corporate tax cut. According to Citi analysts, Jim Suva and Asiya Merchant, there is […]

San Francisco: As part of its $1 billion Advanced Manufacturing Fund to support innovation and job creation by American manufacturers, Apple has invested $390 million in optical communication component manufacturer Finisar whose technology has made the iPhone’s Face ID feature viable. The fund was awarded to increase the production of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs), which […]

San Francisco: Apple is reportedly acquiring popular music recognition app Shazam for a likely sum of nearly $400 million, media reported. According to a report in TechCrunch on Saturday, the iPhone maker may officially announce the deal on Monday. “One source describes the deal as in the nine figures; another puts it at around $401 […]

San Francisco: While Facebook has become the best place to work in America, Cupertino-based tech giant Apple has tumbled to number 84 this year from its 36th position last year in the leading job website Glassdoor’s “100 Best Places to Work in the US”. Apple still remains a highly rated employer — with 4.3 out […]

Shanghai: Hinting at a possible resumption of a harmonius relationship with China, Google’s India-born Chief Executive Sundar Pichai on Sunday said that a lot of the tech giant’s work actually helps Chinese companies. Attending the fourth edition of the Chinese state-run “World Internet Conference” in Wuzhen, near Shanghai, Pichai said that many small and medium-sized […]

New Delhi: Aiming to take on OnePlus 5T, Huawei’s sub-brand Honor is to bring its bezel-less V10 smartphone with an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled chipset — the first from Honor — to India in January. Industry sources told IANS that V10 is likely to be launched in the China market early this week and Honor will […]

San Francisco: Following recent reports that Apple was working with LG on a future foldable iPhone, the company has filed a patent application for a unnamed foldable device which can be “opened and closed like a book”. “An electronic device may have a flexible portion that allows the device to be folded. The device may […]

San Francisco: Apple has postpone the release of its new smart home speaker HomePod until next year and reportedly said that it required more time to work on it. “We can’t wait for people to experience HomePod, Apple’s breakthrough wireless speaker for the home, but we need a little more time before it’s ready for […]

New Delhi: Apple’s much awaited iPhone X was launched in India amid heavy demand on Friday but only few people who had pre-booked it received their units as retailers and online players were handed over a thin supply of the device on Day 1. At the iWorld Store in North Delhi’s Kamla Nagar, only three […]

San Francisco: Escalating its longstanding dispute with chipset maker Qualcomm over licensing fees and patents, iPhone maker, Apple is reportedly designing products for 2018 that will not feature chips by Qualcomm. The Cupertino-based giant is exploring to get its modem chips from Intel and possibly MediaTek, The Wall Street Journal reported late on Monday. Qualcomm is […]

San Francisco: Apple has allegedly sacked an engineer after his daughter’s video of an unreleased iPhone X went viral on YouTube, the media reported. In the video posted earlier this week, Brooke Amelia Peterson documented her trip to Apple’s campus, where her father is an employee and was seen carrying an iPhone X. The video […]

San Francisco: Apple has bought New Zealand-based firm PowerbyProxi which specialises in wireless charging technologies for an undisclosed amount. “PowerbyProxi employs about 55 staff and holds more than 300 patents relating to wireless charging,” a report published in stuff.co.nz on Wednesday. Powerbyproxi’s team would be “a great addition as Apple works to create a wireless […]

San Francisco: Tech giants Samsung Electronics and Apple will face each other in court for another trial looking into design patent infringement as a US federal judge has ordered a new trial in the case. “The judgement was made by Judge Lucy Koh of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, […]

San Francisco: Apple and GE on Wednesday joined hands to deliver industrial Internet of Things (IoT) apps designed to bring predictive data and analytics on iPhones and iPads. The two companies unveiled a new Predix (GE’s industrial IoT platform) software development kit (SDK) for iOS, which gives developers the tools to make their own powerful […]

Seoul: As Samsung plans to launch a bendable smartphone “Galaxy X” in 2018, Apple has reportedly begun work on a foldable iPhone with LG Display. According to a report in the Korean website The Investor, Apple has decided to go with LG and not Samsung (Samsung OLED displays are the best in the industry) owing to […]