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Apple sets to launch electric car

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By Temitope Adebayo One of the most anticipated cars from tech giants Apple is coming soon and according to recent reports, the year 2026 is when the EV is speculated to launch and it will come with a decent price tag too. This is two years away from the original 2024 timeline. Apple has reportedly […]

S.Korea parliament committee votes to curb Google, Apple commission dominance

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On Wednesday, a South Korean parliamentary committee decided to suggest altering a legislation, the first step toward prohibiting Google and Apple from forcing charging software developers commissions on in-app purchases. Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google have been chastised around the world for requiring software developers to utilize proprietary payment methods that charge […]

Apple gets boost in French privacy fight

Apple dragged to court over battery complaints, to pay $113 million in settlement

Apple was given a boost on Wednesday as France’s antitrust watchdog rejected advertisers’ requests to suspend the iPhone maker’s upcoming privacy feature, but it still faces a probe into whether it unfairly favours its own products and services. Apple’s new ‘App Tracking Transparency’ feature allows users to block advertisers from tracking them across different applications. […]

How much is Amazon, Apple, Google play and steam card in Nigeria

Nigerians usually have unused gift cards from several sources, some win it via giveaway, some get it from friends and families. However, they find it difficult to find the best site to exchange gift cards for naira. Well now your wandering stops as we have the perfect solution for you and that is GiftCardsToNaira. In […]

Apple dragged to court over battery complaints, to pay $113 million in settlement

Apple dragged to court over battery complaints, to pay $113 million in settlement

Apple has agreed to pay $113 million to settle litigation with more than 30 US states over its slowdown in the performance of older iPhones to manage battery power. The latest “batterygate” settlement will divide the settlement among California and 33 other states, according to a statement by state Attorney General Xavier Becerra. The settlement […]

Apple market cap hits $2 trillion

Apple market cap hits $2 trillion

Apple became the first publicly traded US company to be priced at $2 trillion on Wednesday, a significant achievement that demonstrates the company’s ability to survive following Steve Jobs’ death. As gathered by Daily Times, Apple first reached a $1 trillion market cap on Aug. 2, 2018. Wall Street has largely expected the iPhone maker to become […]

France hits Apple with €1.1bn fine

Tech giant Apple received a fine of 1.1 billion Euros (1.2 billion dollars) from French authorities on Monday for making anti-competitive agreements with two firms in its distribution network. “The two firms, Tech Data and Ingram Micro, were hit respectively with fines of 76.1 million Euros and 62.9 million Euros,’’ the French competition authority announced. […]

Apple shuts all stores outside of China on coronavirus fears

Apple will shut all of its retail stores outside of China for two weeks to help control the spread of the coronavirus. Chief executive Tim Cook announced the move in a letter posted to the company’s website, writing that Apple learned lessons from the closures of its stores in “greater China” during the worst of […]

South Africa’s Desmond Tutu hospitalised due to ‘stubborn infection’

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Cape Town – South African Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, a prominent anti-apartheid activist and Nobel laureate, is back in hospital due to a “stubborn infection,” his foundation said on Wednesday. “The Archbishop has been several times over the past few years for treatment of a similar condition,” it said in a statement quoting his wife, […]

Apple bans Instagram ‘stalker’ app

Apple has banned an app that let people monitor others’ activity on Instagram. The action comes a month after Instagram had tried to force the app to shut down after accusing it of scraping people’s data without their consent. Like Patrol’s Mexico-based developer insists the app merely utilised public data and Sergio Luis Quintero told […]

Apple unveils iPhone 11

Apple has officially unveiled its new iPhone 11 lineup at a closely watched media event at its Cupertino, California, headquarters on Tuesday. The updated iPhone features new wide and ultra-wide cameras as well as an anodized glass design, faster chips with the next version of the operating system, iOS 13. IPhone 11 is available in […]

Apple Shuts Down Online Store

Apple Inc. has temporarily shut down its online store ahead of its upcoming Iphone-centric event on Tuesday. the event which is tagged, “By Innovation Only” will hold at the Steve Jobs Theatre on Apple’s campus in Cupertino, California, where the company plans to unveil new Iphones, Apple Watch Model, and other Apple gadget. Apple often […]

Iphone 11 to be out on September 10

Apple has sent out invitations on Thursday to a September 10 event at Silicon Valley campus as it will unveil the iPhone 11 smart phone. In its trademark, tight-lipped style, Apple disclosed little about what it plans to spotlight in the Steve Jobs Theater at its headquarters in the city of Cupertino. Introduction of “iPhone […]

Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones

Apple and Samsung are being fined €10m and €5m respectively in Italy for slowing down older phones with software updates. An investigation launched in January by the nation’s competition authority found that certain smartphone software updates had a negative effect on the performance of the devices. Believed to be the first ruling of its kind […]

Apple, Google, Amazon named most valuable brands in the world

Apple, Google, and Amazon are the top three most valuable brands in the world, according to an annual report that underlines the dominance of the US tech companies. Interbrand, which assigns a dollar value to each brand based on factors such as financial performance and brand strength, ranked Apple first in 2018 with a brand […]

Poor holiday sales: Apple slashes iPhoneX production target by 20 million units

In what appears to be a departure from its 40 million iPhone X units quarter, Apple has notified suppliers that its iPhone X production target for the first quarter of 2018 is now 20 million units following a disappointing holiday sale, according to a report by Nikkei. The iPhone X is the company’s most advanced […]

Apple slammed with lawsuits over slowing down iphones

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Apple is facing several lawsuits after the tech giant admitted last week that it was deliberately slowing down the performance of older iphones. The company had said in a statement that slowing down the phones via a recent software update was necessary because the aging batteries in older phones were causing devices to unexpectedly shut […]

Apple admits slowing older iPhones, says it’s to prevent battery issues

Apple has confirmed the suspicions of many iPhone owners by revealing it does deliberately slow down some models of the iPhone as they age. Many customers have long suspected that Apple slows down older iPhones to encourage people to upgrade. The company has now said it does slow down some models as they age, but […]

Apple purchases firm that designs wireless power products

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Apple, which recently said it was including wireless charging in its latest iPhone X and iPhone 8 smartphones, has acquired New Zealand firm PowerbyProxi that designs wireless power products for consumers and industry. An Apple spokesman confirmed the acquisition, which was earlier announced by Apple in New Zealand media. Both companies declined to provide details […]

Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2015 Scheduled June 8

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2015 will be held in San Francisco’s Moscone West Centre from 8th to 12th June where it is expected to announce details of next operating system iOS 9. The company used last year’s WWDC to launch iOS 8, making it a likely showcase for the new system. Further details on […]