Alphabet shares surged after first-quarter results and upbeat executive comments showed the company’s cloud and YouTube businesses kept growing in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The severity of Apple’s challenges amid the Covid-19 pandemic is starting to become clear. And it’s not looking good.
An asteroid more than a mile wide is set to make a pass by Earth on Wednesday, although scientists insist it poses no danger.
Alphabet said in a regulatory filing that CEO Sundar Pichai was awarded $281-million (R5.4-billion) in compensation last year, making him one of the world’s highest-paid executives.
Apple said it found no evidence of cyberattackers exploiting newly discovered vulnerabilities in the Mail app for iPhone and iPad, software used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide.
Apple is planning to start selling Mac computers with its own processors by next year, relying on designs that helped popularise the iPhone and iPad, according to people familiar with the matter.
Zoom has been lambasted for its security flaws, but the backlash hasn’t slowed growth. The company reported a 50% surge in use of the online meeting application in the past three weeks.
Two types of cells in the nose have been identified as the likely initial infection points for coronavirus, researchers have said.
Facebook will invest $5.7-billion in the digital assets controlled by India’s richest man, the US social-networking giant’s biggest deal since the 2014 purchase of WhatsApp.
Huawei is emerging as the runaway winner in China’s $170-billion effort to build out its 5G wireless networks, part of a concerted effort by Beijing to seize the lead in a key technology from the US.