Published on: 2025-04-20 11:48:38
Current tensions around US trade policy may be helping delay a coming EU penalty against Apple, according to a new Wall Street Journal report. Here are the details. US and EU trade talks prompted postponement of Apple penalty Kim Mackrael and Sam Schechner, writing at The Wall Street Journal: The European Union recently delayed penalizing Apple and Meta Platforms, temporarily avoiding a conflict with the Trump administration during a week that saw the bloc ramp up its push for a trade deal wi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 07:02:02
A Florida draft bill that would require social media companies to provide encryption backdoors for law enforcement officials to access user accounts has cleared a key legislative hurdle and will now advance to the state’s Senate floor for a vote. Florida lawmakers unanimously approved pushing the bill through committee, per Florida Politics. The “Social Media Use by Minors” (SB 868) bill, if passed into law, would require “social media platforms to provide a mechanism to decrypt end-to-end enc
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-23 13:00:25
Why you should join Formance Formance is on a mission to redefine how developers interact with money as a first-class primitive and compose with finance. Hidden through permissioned, vendor-locked infrastructure, money needs to rewire itself to empower product-first companies with the ability to create innovative financial applications. With the Formance Platform, we're putting agnostic primitives in the hands of engineers and their team. These primitives are available as open-source packages,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-26 11:57:19
'There is a non-trivial chance that we will be forced to spin out Instagram and perhaps WhatsApp,' the Meta CEO wrote.se In 2018, Mark Zuckerberg floated the idea of spinning out Instagram, one of the remedies the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will likely seek in Meta's antitrust trial that began this week. CNBC reported on Tuesday that the comments from an email thread with executives came to light in Washington, DC. "I'm beginning to wonder whether spinning Instagram out is the only structu
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-26 15:35:26
Blackmagic Design, an Australia-based digital cinematography camera company, was gearing up to start making products in the United States before the Trump administration blew a tariff-shaped hole in its plans. Now, not only is Blackmagic having to increase prices in the US to mitigate some of the levies on imported goods, but those same tariffs are also making it difficult to justify opening a US production line. “We were planning to build a new factory in Dallas, Texas, to streamline our suppl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-27 15:27:57
One of President Donald Trump’s top officials has warned European allies hesitant about working with Elon Musk’s satellite Internet company that they needed to choose between US and Chinese technology. Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr told the Financial Times that “allied western democracies” needed to “focus on the real long-term bogey: the rise of the Chinese Communist party.” His comments come as European governments and some European companies consider whether Starlink—
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-28 03:52:34
Apple has blocked access to 14 cryptocurrency apps, at the request of the South Korean financial services regulator. The ban applies to crypto exchange apps operated by KuCoin, MEXC, and 12 other companies. The country’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) says that all 14 exchanges were operating illegally, and that Apple must not permit the apps to be installed or updated after April 11 … The FSC last month asked Google to block access to 17 crypto apps, taking effect from March 25. It’s unc
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-29 23:49:01
Former U.S. Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan said Monday that Facebook "panicked" when making the acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp as smartphone use took off. "It saw companies like Instagram and WhatsApp experiencing astronomical growth, and that's the point at which it resorted to this buy-or-bury scheme where, if it couldn't out-compete a rival, it either bought them out or cut them off its network," Khan said on CNBC's "Squawk Box." Meta , the parent company of Facebook, Inst
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 01:27:00
Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET Amid uncertainty over rising costs as a consequence of steep tariffs, the White House announced an exemption for imported smartphones, laptops, chips, and other electronics. This temporary exemption would have significant implications for the US economy, which has suffered highs and lows since the announcement of new tariffs. The Trump administration had previously imposed up to 145% tariffs for imported goods from China and a minimum 10% global tariff for nearly all other
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-01 11:01:04
Tariffs, another chaotic venture of the barely four-month-old Trump administration, are set to rollick every sector of the economy and nearly all the goods and services people use across the world. But tariffs could also cause the tech in your phone and other devices you use every day to stagnate as supply chains are hit by the rise in costs and companies scramble to balance the books by cutting vital development research. Let’s get a couple important caveats out of the way here, starting with
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-03 03:45:11
President Donald Trump has mired the United States in an idiotic trade war with China and, as that trade war drags on, it’s more and more likely that American consumers are going to start eating the cost. In fact, it appears to already be happening. More and more companies are talking about instituting a “tariff surcharge” to customer receipts, one that would offset the newly conjured expenses spurred by new import duties. Earlier this week, we noted that small business owners on Reddit were in
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-03 15:00:00
A challenge for many tech companies is delivering high-bandwidth, multimodal data — for example, simultaneous audio and video — to users in real time without interruptions. Some firms build solutions in-house, but these often require a lot of upkeep and maintenance. To ease the burden, Russ d’Sa and David Zhao created LiveKit, an open-source software package for building apps that can transmit real-time audio and video. They launched the project in 2021 and soon suspected it had business potent
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-03 19:45:00
In Brief Meghan is stepping further into the world of business and entrepreneurship. In an interview with Fortune, Meghan revealed that she is an angel investor in the healthcare company Midi, which provides a virtual platform to help treat women experiencing menopause and other health-related concerns. She joined the company’s $63 million Series B round last March, a source close to the matter told TechCrunch. Other investors in that round included names like Laurene Powell Jobs’ Emerson Col
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-03 23:10:03
Environmental-, social-, and governance-related shareholder proposals are down 34 percent this year as the Trump administration galvanizes the movement against “woke investing,” according to an annual report by the shareholder advocacy groups As You Sow and Proxy Impact. The report counted 355 such proposals as of February 21, compared to 536 proposals filed by the same time last year. Wariness over anticipated changes at the Securities and Exchange Commission contributed to the decline, the au
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-05 19:26:40
President Donald Trump’s latest round of tariffs — including a now 125 percent levy on Chinese imports — will hit the smart home industry hard. Many smart home device makers are already struggling, thanks, in part, to Trump’s first round of tariffs. Increased competition from budget smart home companies largely based in China has also played a part, and so has slower takeup from homeowners than the industry expected. Smart home control panel maker Brilliant cited tariffs and supply chain issue
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-06 03:25:53
Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden has put a hold on the Trump administration’s nomination of Sean Plankey to head the federal government’s top cybersecurity agency, citing a “multi-year cover up” of security flaws at U.S. telecommunication companies. Wyden said in remarks, seen by TechCrunch and confirmed by the senator’s spokesperson, that he will block the nomination of Plankey to serve as director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) until the agency agrees to release a 202
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-07 19:51:52
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, laughs as he attends a session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2020. Apple 's 23% plunge over the past four trading sessions has again turned Microsoft into the world's most valuable public company. As of Tuesday's close, Microsoft is worth $2.64 trillion, while Apple's market cap stands at $2.59 trillion. While the market broadly is getting hammered by President Donald Trump's sweeping tariff plan, Apple is getting hit the harde
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-10 03:40:41
(L-R) Apple CEO Tim Cook, Vivek Ramaswamy and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem attend the inauguration ceremony before Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th U.S. President in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025. While the stock market broadly fared better on Monday than in the prior two trading days, Apple got hammered once again, losing 3.7%, as concerns mounted that the company will take a major hit from President Donald Trump's tariffs. The sell-off bring
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 08:00:00
Thirteen years ago, when Chris Farmer founded early-stage venture firm SignalFire with data analysis at the core of its investment strategy, many were skeptical about the approach — conventional wisdom dictated that nascent companies didn’t have enough data to make investment algorithms effective. “This was a very radical idea, and everyone thought I was crazy,” Farmer (pictured above, on the right, alongside CTO and partner Ilya Kirnos) told TechCrunch. A lot has changed since SignalFire rais
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 11:49:08
The GDPR is seen as one of Europe's most complex pieces of legislation by the technology sector — and by businesses far and wide beyond tech — for how it forces companies doing business in Europe to manage their data and to handle the requests and rights of data subjects to that personal data. Its introduction in 2018 drew a deluge of desperate emails from firms asking for people's consent to use their data. Seven years later, Brussels is taking out the scissors to give its (in)famous privacy l
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 03:25:36
With the recent flurry of US federal firings, many people are pointing and laughing at the Trump-voting federal employees who are just now finding out that they’ve voted for themselves to be let go. How could you have this poor a mental model of what your job even is? Well. In my opinion, many software engineers are operating under a mental model that’s just as bad, and are often doing the equivalent of voting for the person promising to fire them. I won’t quote the tweets, but I regularly see
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 19:00:00
The year that ChatGPT went viral, only two US companies—OpenAI and Google—could boast truly cutting-edge artificial intelligence. Three years on, AI is no longer a two-horse race, nor is it purely an American one. A new report published today by Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) highlights just how crowded the field has become. The institute’s 2025 AI index, which collates data and trends on the state of the AI industry, paints a picture of an increasingly competitive,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 02:15:00
Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer When the story of how I landed a job at Airbnb went viral, I was surprised at how infatuated people were with my negotiations. Media stories portrayed me as some kind of master negotiator—a wily ex-poker-player who was able to con the tech giants into a lucrative job offer. This is silly. It’s silly for a lot of reasons, but one of the main ones is that in reality, my negotiation skills are nothing special. There are lots of job candidates who are better n
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Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer When the story of how I landed a job at Airbnb went viral, I was surprised at how infatuated people were with my negotiations. Media stories portrayed me as some kind of master negotiator—a wily ex-poker-player who was able to con the tech giants into a lucrative job offer. This is silly. It’s silly for a lot of reasons, but one of the main ones is that in reality, my negotiation skills are nothing special. There are lots of job candidates who are better n
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 23:25:02
All your favorite tech is soon going to hit the wall of tariffs implemented by President Donald Trump. Already, the tariffs are forcing Nintendo to revise its Switch 2 preorder timeline, potentially making an expensive $450 handheld console even more expensive. If you want to buy a new laptop, phone, light, or practically any electronic, you should do it now, or else hold off buying anything new until the next hair-brained scheme snails its way from the Trump White House. Trump’s White House im
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-12 11:55:33
AI companies can’t figure out if the Trump tariffs are about to decimate them – and the fact that no one has a clear answer is sending them, and the tech industry overall, into a confusion spiral. The markets are in disarray. Nvidia is down 7.59%, TSMC is down 7.22%. In San Francisco, sources tell us that this isn’t a big deal. But in DC, people are panicking. The core question is whether GPUs – the graphics processing units that are crucial to AI computing and other industries – are exempted f
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 11:49:25
The floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Feb. 13, 2025. The global market rout on Thursday, sparked by President Donald Trump's announcement of widespread tariffs, had an outsized effect on fintech companies and credit card issuers that are closely tied to consumer spending and credit. Affirm , which offers buy now, pay later purchasing options, plunged 19%, while stock trading app Robinhood slid 10% and payments company PayPal fell 8%. American Express and Capital One each tumbled 10%, and
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 23:38:31
Ryan Haines / Android Authority While on the campaign trail in 2024, Donald Trump repeatedly mentioned his plans to institute tariffs on non-US goods should he win the presidency. Now that he’s back in the White House, he has started fulfilling his tariff promises today. These tariffs will have a dramatic effect on the cost of goods within the US that are wholly or even partially sourced from other countries. One industry that will see changes due to Trump’s tariffs is smartphones. Being that
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-15 11:13:00
is a deputy editor with 18 years of experience writing and editing product reviews, gadgets and business news. Previously, he was a deputy editor covering technology companies at CNBC. Shares of Apple, Amazon, and other tech stocks are getting walloped on Thursday as the markets digest the impact of President Donald Trump’s new round of tariffs announced on Wednesday evening. Shares of Apple were down about 9 percent on Thursday morning, which would mark the biggest drop in about five years if
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-15 15:29:43
Samsung has turned to Chinese technology groups to prop up its ailing semiconductor division, as it struggles to secure big US customers despite investing tens of billions of dollars in its American manufacturing facilities. The South Korean electronics group revealed last month that the value of its exports to China jumped 54 percent between 2023 and 2024, as Chinese companies rush to secure stockpiles of advanced artificial intelligence chips in the face of increasingly restrictive US export
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