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Apple iOS 14 Sparks Antitrust Grievance In France
October 28, 2020

Apple’s new operating system, iOS 14, offers new privacy controls and advertising opt-in that triggered a complaint to France’s competition authority from a group of advertising firms and publishers, according to a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report on Wednesday (Oct. 28).  The complaint alleges that...

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Apple Tests Search
October 28, 2020

Apple is rumored to be going after a piece of the lucrative search market and is said to be developing technology to topple Google’s reign, a Financial Times (FT) report indicated on Wednesday (Oct. 28), citing familiar sources. Advancing its own search ingenuity is a...

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Apple Buys Spain’s Vilynx For $50M To Use AI On Apps
October 28, 2020

Apple has acquired Barcelona’s Vilynx, which works in advanced artificial intelligence that could boost the iPhone’s AI across various devices, Bloomberg reports. Apple acquired Vilynx earlier this year, according to people familiar with the issue, Bloomberg reports. Vilynx has developed technology that uses AI to...

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Apple Earnings Expected To Reflect Work-At-Home Trend
October 27, 2020

On Thursday (Oct. 29) Apple releases its Q4 earnings report — the last glimpse inside Apple the public will get this calendar year and the firm’s update on how it has managed its pandemic economics before the holiday shopping season spins fully into gear. Apple...

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Apple Card Users Report Problems Paying On Amazon
October 23, 2020

Apple Card users are complaining that a glitch is preventing them from using the payment method on Amazon — and the option vanished as a choice without warning or reason, according to media reports on Friday (Oct. 23). A source told AppleInsider that “the problem...

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Chinese Smartphone Buyers Driving iPhone 12 Demand
October 20, 2020

Chinese smartphone users are driving the record pre-orders of Apple’s new iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro, CNBC reported on Tuesday (Oct. 20), citing data from the Chinese eCommerce site Fenqile. The latest iPhones, which are the first to offer 5G, became available for pre-order...

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Preorder Sales Sizzle For Apple iPhone 12, Surpassing iPhone 11
October 19, 2020

Apple is reporting high demand for iPhone 12 preorders, surpassing last year’s iPhone 11 preorders, according to a report in CNBC on Monday (Oct. 19). Apple Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities told CNBC that a comparison of the same time periods shows more...

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Apple Gives New iPhone Buyers Free Subscriptions, Bucking Industry Trend
October 14, 2020

Buyers of Apple’s new iPhone 12, which will be available Oct. 23 in the United States for some models and in November for others, will get three free months of the company’s subscription Arcade service and one year of free Apple TV+, the company noted...

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Apple Starts Shipping Products From Select Stores
October 09, 2020

As it follows in the footsteps of other merchants, Apple is reportedly beginning to harness its collection of shops as distribution hubs for delivering merchandise, Bloomberg reported. Apple has usually shipped products such as computers, smartphones, accessories and tablets from warehouses. However, products in stock...