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Apple Just Made Big Move Against Alex Jones

iTunes removes much of Infowars content

(Newser) - Alex Jones now has a lot more to vent about on his controversial Infowars network, but it will be harder for his fans to hear it. Apple removed five of six Infowars podcasts from iTunes, including the popular Alex Jones Show, reports BuzzFeed News . After the Apple decision, Facebook pulled...

History Gets Its First Trillion-Dollar Company

After Apple shares crossed the $207 mark

(Newser) - Apple has become the world's first publicly traded company to be valued at $1 trillion. Apple shares rose 2.7% to an all-time high of $207.05 around midday, though the Washington Post reports they subsequently dropped "amid fast-moving trade," putting the company below the $1 trillion...

Apple Employee Allegedly Stole Self-Driving Car Tech

Zhang Xiaolang was arrested as he was about to leave for China

(Newser) - A former Apple engineer was arrested as he was about to board a flight from San Jose to China Saturday, accused by US prosecutors of stealing tech secrets from the firm with the plan of passing them along to a Chinese startup, the Washington Post reports. Zhang Xiaolang, once a...

Apple and Samsung Settle Epic Patent Infringement Battle

The companies filed a notice in federal court that they have agreed to drop the case

(Newser) - An epic legal battle between smartphone titans is finally over. Apple and Samsung have settled their seven-year patent dispute over Apple’s allegations that Samsung copied the iPhone’s design and software, reports CNN . Terms were not available, but according to the Wall Street Journal , the companies filed a notice...

Apple, Oprah Winfrey Announce Multi-Year Deal

The programs will be released worldwide as part of a lineup of original content

(Newser) - Apple says it has reached a multiyear deal with Oprah Winfrey to create original programs for its streaming service, reports the AP . Apple said Friday the programs will be released worldwide as part of a lineup of original content. Apple has yet to launch its service, whose major competitors will...

Jury: Samsung Owes Apple $539M for Copying iPhone

Ruling seen as a big win for Apple

(Newser) - A jury has decided Samsung must pay Apple $539 million in damages for illegally copying some of the iPhone's features to lure people into buying its competing products. The verdict reached Thursday is the latest twist in a legal battle that began in 2011, the AP reports. Apple contends...

Apple Has 12 Employees Arrested: Leaked Memo

'Leakers do not simply lose their jobs at Apple'

(Newser) - Irony alert: Apple uncovered 29 "leakers" in the company last year and had 12 of them arrested, according to an internal memo leaked to Bloomberg . "Leakers do not simply lose their jobs at Apple," the memo reads. "In some cases, they face jail time and massive...

Apple's Wozniak Dumps Facebook: 'More Negatives Than Positives'

Apple co-founder has deactivated his account over data commotion

(Newser) - One of the biggest names in tech says he's defecting from one of tech's biggest platforms. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak told USA Today in an email Sunday he's leaving Facebook due to privacy concerns in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data-mining scandal. "Users provide every...

911 Calls Confirm Strange Workplace Hazard at Apple

'Um, I walked into a glass door'

(Newser) - Last month, reports emerged about a strange workplace hazard at Apple's sleek new headquarters in Cupertino. It seems that people keep walking head first into the glass walls at Apple Park. Now the San Francisco Chronicle confirms the news via 911 calls on three separate incidents in early January....

Steve Jobs' Job Application From 1973 Had Some Errors

It's going on the auction block next month

(Newser) - A resume filled with typos from an applicant who said he had no phone and probably no way to get to work normally wouldn't end up anywhere else but the trash can, but in this case, it might fetch as much as $50,000 at auction. That's because...

Why Apple Is Reportedly Looking Into Mining Contracts

Experts fear shortage of cobalt, which is needed for iPhone batteries

(Newser) - Apple might have a battery problem on its hands. No, not that one . Apple needs cobalt for its iPhone batteries, but experts fear a potential shortage of the metal with the proliferation of electric vehicles, which require over 1,000 times more cobalt for their batteries than do smartphones. Bloomberg...

Apple's HQ Apparently Has a Weird Hazard for Workers

People are walking into glass walls

(Newser) - Apple's new headquarters in Cupertino, California, has been widely celebrated by architectural critics, but some employees are reportedly encountering a downside: They keep walking into the interior glass walls. MarketWatch reports on at least two incidents in which men walked into a wall seriously enough to require a call...

Fallout From Apple's Decision to Slow Phones Just Got Worse

SEC and the Justice Department are investigating

(Newser) - US authorities are investigating Apple's slowing of older iPhones, according to published reports. The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg reported Tuesday that the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission are investigating whether Apple violated securities laws. In December, Apple apologized for the slowdown after a blogger'...

Apple May Alter Phone Lineup Like Never Before

It's rumored to be killing iPhone X before first birthday

(Newser) - Apple's most expensive iPhone ever might also be its shortest lived. A report from Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities—dubbed "the king of Apple analysts" by Mashable —predicts Apple will end production of the iPhone X after shipping 18 million devices in the first quarter of 2018,...

iPhone Slowdown Will Soon Be Optional
iPhone Slowdown
Will Soon Be
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Jan 18, 2018 10:40 AM CST

iPhone Slowdown Will Soon Be Optional

But Tim Cook doesn't recommend you disable it

(Newser) - Apple has somewhat good news for users of older, slower iPhones who don't want to go out and buy a new battery. Tim Cook tells ABC News that a new iOS update—expected in early February, per the Verge —will allow iPhone users to disable Apple's deliberate...

Big Apple Announcement Is Show of Faith in America

Apple says it will build 2nd campus, hire 20K new workers in US

(Newser) - Apple is planning to build another corporate campus and hire 20,000 workers during the next five years as part of a $350 billion commitment to the US that will be partially financed by an upcoming windfall from the country's new tax law, the AP reports. The pledge announced...

Apple Investors Sound Alarm Over Products' 'Consequences'

They're worried about iPhone's impact on kids

(Newser) - Apple needs to do something about the "unintentional negative consequences" its products are having on children, two of the company's investors warn. In an open letter , Jana Partners LLC and the California State Teachers' Retirement System, which own about $2 billion in Apple stock between them, call for...

Apple Code Release Will Take Us Back to 1983

Apple's Lisa computer famously flopped that year

(Newser) - The source code for Apple's 1983 computer that cost $10,000, may have led to the ouster of Steve Jobs, and is widely seen as the tech giant's biggest ever flop could soon be yours. Al Kossow, software curator at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California,...

Apology Could &#39;Fundamentally Change&#39; Apple
Apology Could
'Fundamentally
Change' Apple
The Rundown
Dec 29, 2017 12:16 PM CST

Apology Could 'Fundamentally Change' Apple

But investors should be celebrating, according to one source

(Newser) - When Apple apologized Thursday for deliberately—and secretly— slowing down older iPhones to make sure their batteries continue to function, it was an "extraordinary move," Business Insider reports. And that's not just because it was a rare apology from the company. Matt Weinberger writes that the apology...

Apple Apologizes for Secretly Slowing Down Old iPhones

It's offering $50 off replacement batteries

(Newser) - Apple says it is sorry about secretly slowing down older models of iPhone —and to make sure there are no hard feelings, it will offer battery replacements at a reduced price. In a letter on its website, the company says it would never "do anything to intentionally shorten...

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