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‘You do not belong here,’ Tim Cook tells internal leakers

Apple has a long-standing reputation for being known as a tight-lipped company. So, the number of leaks regarding the new product line-up, employee policies, and meeting contents undoubtedly did not sit well with Apple, especially its CEO Tim Cook. Tuesday evening was a chilling night for Apple employees, as one email notification was able to […]

Americans have little trust in online security

Most Americans don’t believe their personal information is secure online and aren’t satisfied with the federal government’s efforts to protect it, according to a poll. The poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and MeriTalk shows that 64% of Americans say their social media activity is not very or not at all […]

South Korea’s KFTC fines Google $177 million for market dominance

The Korean Fair-Trade Commission (KFTC) imposed on Tuesday a $177 million fine on Google after discovering that the search engine titan took advantage of its market status to prevent rival operating systems from competing in the market, putting the company at its second setback in less than a month.  According to the KFTC, Alphabet Inc’s […]

iPhone 13 line will have up to 1TB of storage

If your iPhone is always running out of storage, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuohas has good news for you. Kuohas released a report days before Apple’s California Streaming event on September 14th, noting that the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max will each provide 1TB storage configuration. The iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 mini are […]

Microsoft return to U.S. offices delayed indefinitely

Microsoft told employees Thursday that it has indefinitely delayed their return to U.S. offices until it’s safer to do so. “Given the uncertainty of COVID-19, we’ve decided against attempting to forecast a new date for a full reopening of our U.S. work sites,” Jared Spataro, a corporate vice president, wrote in a blog post. Microsoft […]

Tech giant employees are speaking out like never before

Tech giants know this scenario all too well; employee-activists accuse the company of attempting to impose harsh rules in the workplace, and the same employees get booted out. However, things are quickly taking a surprising shift, as this time, the law began taking notice. Google recently came to an agreement with a recently let-go employee […]

Congress asks tech companies for Jan. 6 records

A House committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection has requested that telecommunications and social media companies preserve the personal communications of hundreds of people who may have somehow been connected to the attack. It’s a sweeping public demand from Congress that is rare, if not unprecedented, in its breadth and could put the […]

Biden’s Zero Trust order unites Big Tech under national security

Microsoft’s accommodations to President Joe Biden’s executive order to hinder cyberattacks on the U.S. will support public and private sectors in establishing the right infrastructure for a bolstered up Zero Trust network security model. After a full year of ransomware and supply chain attacks, Microsoft is one of 18 cybersecurity firms selected to work in […]

Google defends Play Store’s notorious commission

Recently disclosed documents featuring Google’s confidential deal with Netflix, unveiled market monopolization strategies by the search engine giant, as it offered the streaming platform a private pitch to keep using Android-based subscriptions with a lower cut than Apple’s App Store, a media report revealed on Friday. Numerous state attorneys filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google […]

Google is paying billions to keep your attention

Google is going above and beyond to ensure itself as the search engine of choice for all smartphone users, specifically Apple. According to Bernstein analysts, Google has paid about $15 billion to the world’s largest tech company to remain the default for users in the Safari browser. The amount is estimated to grow to about […]