Earlier this month, Apple poached the chief of Amazon’s Fire TV unit to run its television operations. Timothy D Twerdhal brings hardware and content experience to his new gig, and his hiring suggests a renewed
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“We are always looking at acquisitions,” Apple CEO Tim Cook told analysts last month. “There’s not a size that we would not do.” It’s a message he’s increasingly stressed over the past year as investors
BlackBerry has filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Nokia, demanding royalties on the Finnish company’s mobile network products that use an industry-wide technology standard. Nokia’s products including
Microsoft is urging countries to step up protection for civilians from state-sponsored cyber hacking, through the formation of international agreements similar to the Geneva Conventions and an independent
Microsoft persuaded a judge not to let the US government out of a lawsuit alleging the company’s free-speech rights are violated by a law that blocks it from alerting users to the clandestine interception of
More than 120 companies, from Apple to Zynga, filed an impassioned legal brief condemning US President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, stepping up the industry’s growing opposition to the policy. The amicus brief was filed late
Alphabet has warned investors about a slew of new competitors, highlighting the company’s broad expansion beyond its original Google search business. It named rivals including Apple, Netflix and Hulu, while highlighting risks from
It’s TalkCentral time. In this week’s news-packed episode, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg ask: which will be the first big tech company to reach a market capitalisation of a trillion dollars? Also this week, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Alphabet announce
US immigration restrictions introduced over the weekend are bringing the technology industry together in unified anger like never before. While the clampdown isn’t an immediate threat to businesses, emotions
US President Donald Trump’s clash with Silicon Valley over immigration is about to become even more contentious. After the new president banned refugees and travellers from seven