Apple, Google remove TikTok from stores as app halts service in U.S.

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Apple and Google removed TikTok from their app stores Saturday night, complying with a law requiring China’s ByteDance to divest the social app or see it face an effective ban in the U.S.  The Apple App Store and the Google Play store’s removal of TikTok means people in the U.S. can no longer download the […]


Looming TikTok ban poses financial nightmare for Google, Apple

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The looming TikTok ban presents a multibillion-dollar headache for app store operators Apple and Google – as well as other Big Tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon that count its Chinese parent company ByteDance as a business partner. The Biden administration effectively punted enforcement of the law, which is set to take effect on Sunday, […]


Apple disables AI notifications for news in its beta iPhone software

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Apple CEO Tim Cook delivers remarks at the start of the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 10, 2024 in Cupertino, California. Apple will announce plans to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) into Apple software and hardware. ( Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Apple has temporarily disabled Apple Intelligence summaries for news apps for users […]


As TikTok faces U.S. ban, China’sr RedNote tops Apple app store

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U.S., Chinese flags, TikTok logo and gavel are seen in this illustration taken Jan. 8, 2025.  Dado Ruvic | Reuters Chinese social media app RedNote has skyrocketed to the top of Apple’s app store, underscoring concerns that TikTok will soon be effectively banned in the U.S. RedNote, or Xiaohongshu as it’s known in China, is […]


Apple offers holiday discount in China as Huawei competition heats up

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People walk past an advertisement for the iPhone 16 Pro at an Apple store during National Day holiday on October 3, 2024 in Chongqing, China. Cheng Xin | Getty Images News | Getty Images Apple is offering discounts on its top-end iPhones and other products in China for the upcoming Chinese New Year as the […]


Inside TSMC’s new chip fab where Apple will make chips in the U.S.

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Atop a newly completed, 3.5-million-square-foot building that stands on 1,100 acres in the Arizona desert north of Phoenix is a giant logo of a microchip wafer and the letters TSMC.  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s first Arizona chip fabrication plant, or fab, is making history because it’s the most advanced chip fab on U.S. soil, and […]


Apple, Google instructed by House committee to prepare to dump TikTok

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A supporter holds up a sign that read “TikTok” during a news conference on TikTok in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 22, 2023. Alex Wong | Getty Images House Committee members are urging the top executives of Apple and Google to be prepared to comply with a law that could […]