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...This week, as Apple unveiled its latest high-end Macs, its new M3 chips were very much the focus....
...Rewan al-Haddad, campaign director at SumOfUs, said tech platforms needed to step up their game against disinformation campaigns, rather than profiting from them....
...Sony a7R V, £3,999 @rhodri...
...But as Steven Kelly of the Yale Program on Financial Stability pointed out to me, Yellen et al will need the goodwill of the big banks should some other bank or banks get into trouble....
...The FANG+ index — which includes Tesla and Baidu as well as Facebook et al — may be only down a little at pixel time, but it has plunged by just over a quarter since the turn of the year....
...It has taken Apple a decade since launching its first iPhone chip to create a processor capable of displacing Intel from its high-end laptops, and Apple spends considerably more on R&D than other computer...
...Mac computers....
...Growing tensions between Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta and Apple lie behind the death of the Internet Association (IA), the nine-year-old lobby group that was Big Tech’s voice in Washington, according...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on December 8 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...Apple shrugged off the worst of the shortages, which had been expected to subdue sales of iPads and Mac computers, although Tim Cook, chief executive, said the company would have done even better had it...
...Qualcomm’s new 5G processorThe wireless chipmaker has unveiled the processor that will power most high-end 5G phones next year....
...Even with Covid-19 creating turmoil in public markets, the big five tech companies — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft — are striking deals at their fastest pace since 2015, DD’s Miles Kruppa...
...The Wall Street Journal has a good sector-by-sector deep dive into the high cost of the US-China tech war. Japan’s army of bots has arrived....
...al — arrived....
...The room is spacious but unflashy, with a timber-beamed ceiling that seems as high as a church....
...The payments business has a high fixed cost and low variable cost. Growth is high but margins are compressing. So: get big or die tryin’. Who is up next?...
...Tech's trade trauma Some positive news for tech on the trade wars front today, with Japan approving shipments to South Korea of a key material used in making computer chips, in a bid by Tokyo to ease rising...
...What began as a high-end limousine service in San Francisco is now a regular habit for more than 100m people worldwide....
...Walt Disney’s chief executive Bob Iger has stepped down from Apple’s board as the rivalry between the two groups intensifies with the launch of Apple’s streaming service, TV+. More here....
...The Vision Fund needs to continue to attract high valuations for its companies ahead of their listings. However, the market is not giving SoftBank an easy ride....
...This finding is also in line with previous literature on the subject (Yoshikawa et al., 1995; Pras et al., 2009; Pras & Guostavino, 2010)....
...Related stories 2018’s resurgent oil price: Asia’s winners and losers Taiwan’s tech industry hunkers down after worst month since 2016 Apple held hostage by its Chinese puzzle ‘Stealth’ companies steal...
...“Nature is quantum mechanical so, if you have a computer that worked on quantum principles, it would be mapping apples to apples,” says Bob Sutor, a researcher at IBM....
...US tech groups have been using that tired old line in Brussels for years, apparently forgetting that it was a British computer scientist, Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the worldwide web while working at...
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