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Apple under Tim Cook has also faced government investigations into its aggressive efforts to minimize its corporate taxes and complaints that it has abused control of its app store to charge excessive fees and stifle competition to its own digital services. (Photo | AP)

Apple's growth into $2 trillion behemoth under Tim Cook tainted by...

He turned App Store into the cornerstone of a services division that earns $50 billion yearly, more than all but 65...

24 Aug 2020 4:44 PM IST

Epic also encouraged players to express their displeasure with Apple on Twitter using the #FreeFortnite hashtag. Seen here the start of the 2019 Fortnite World Cup Finals - Round Two on July 27, 2019. (Photo | AFP)

Epic Games hosts FreeFortnite' tournament in campaign against Apple...

Prizes include a virtual Tart Tycoon outfit featuring an apple head, sunglasses and condescending frown, Epic said...

22 Aug 2020 4:44 PM IST

The head of a US congressional antitrust committee contended that Big Tech companies are too powerful and will likely emerge from the coronavirus pandemic even stronger. (Photo | AFP)

Will US Federal Trade Commission's antitrust probe against Facebook...

Facebook says Zuckerberg answered US regulators' questions on antitrust practices, but FTC investigations do not always...

21 Aug 2020 3:12 PM IST

Epic will not be able to create iPhone, iPad or Mac versions of its widely used Unreal Engine for powering rich graphics due to Apples actions, the company said. (Photo | AFP)

After removing Fortnite from App Store, Apple takes war with Epic...

Apple told Epic it would be cut off from software development tools by August 28.

18 Aug 2020 4:07 PM IST

Epic Games, the maker of Fortnite, has filed a federal lawsuit against Apple. The tech giant has in recent months come under fire for the tight grip it has on the App Store, with the issue coming up during a heated congressional antitrust hearing last month.

Fortnite gets pulled off app store, files lawsuit against Apple for...

Google Play Store too removed the game as Epic Games' latest update bypasses app stores on payments, depriving them of...

14 Aug 2020 10:46 AM IST

Trumps proclamation suspended a group of non-immigrant visa programs, including H-1B visas relied on by many technology firms to bring in software and hardware engineers. Indians have been the recipients of 70 per cent of H-1B visas, according to reports.

Trump's blocking of H-1B visas harming the US, say Facebook, Amazon,...

More than 50 tech firms have signed onto a court filing in support of a suit by US Chamber of Commerce against Trump...

11 Aug 2020 9:22 PM IST

In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook obtained by The Associated Press, Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Patrick Foye said riders have been seen removing their masks to unlock their phones using face-recognition technology, and asked the company to come up with a better way for iPhone users to unlock their phones without taking off their masks. (Photo | Apple)

Call to replace Apple Face ID over people removing masks on public...

iOS 13.5 presents the passcode field after a user swipes the lock screen, instead of Face ID but older iPhones may not...

10 Aug 2020 9:56 PM IST

Apple surpassed oil giant Saudi Aramco to become the worlds most valuable publicly traded company. (ANI Photo)

Apple now world's most valuable company, dethrones Saudi Aramco

Apple rode the company's strong earnings report and its shares closed up by 10.47 per cent on Friday

2 Aug 2020 9:03 AM IST

Pressure has been growing both from the right and the leftand sometimes internallyto do something about the overwhelming dominance of the internet platforms. In this photo, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Tim Cook and Jeff Bezos. The four CEOs on Wednesday attended an antitrust hearing of the US House Judiciary Committee. (Photo | AFP)

Tech This Week | What we learned from the US antitrust inquiry

Lawmakers seem to be catching up with technology and so will regulation, so Big Tech should not take things for granted.

1 Aug 2020 4:17 PM IST

The app relies on software developed by US technology giants Apple and Google, and in a bid to assuage privacy concerns, holds all the data generated on peoples phones and allows the information to be deleted easily. (Photo | AFP)

Britain's delayed virus app launched in England and Wales, after...

The app uses Bluetooth to alert users if they spend 15 minutes or more within two metres of a user who subsequently...

24 Sept 2020 10:41 PM IST

Health officials initially targeted a 60% adoption rate for tracing apps, an optimistic goal based on an Oxford University study from April although researchers noted a lower uptake still helps if other measures, such as social distancing, are enforced. (Photo | AFP)

It's not even privacy that's the issue, yet Europe is cold to Covid...

A few countries have scrapped their tracing apps and others have found so few users that the technology is not very...

22 Sept 2020 5:32 PM IST

Apple is a small player in India, where sales of its smartphones lag those of South Korean rival Samsung. The company currently sells through third-party retailers in India including Amazon, and the country is seen as a huge potential market for the firm due to its giant 1.3-billion population and relatively low number of smartphone owners. (Photo | AP)

Apple to open its first online store in India September 23 well in...

Shoppers will be able to get their AirPods, iPads and Apple Pencils engraved in English, Hindi and a range of other...

18 Sept 2020 6:57 PM IST