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Apple officially announced an online event for March 8 but didn’t hint at what to expect. Not that it usually does. Luckily, the rumor mill has been spinning for some time now and thanks to… The post New iPad Air and iPhone SE 2022 to be unveiled at Apple’s March 8 event appeared first on Top Tech News .

As the brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine remained front and center this week, several tech giants threw their weight behind the worldwide effort to punish Moscow economically.

Benzinga has examined the prospects for many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Last week''s bullish calls included a top e-commerce platform and a software company behind a popular video teleconferencing app. A leading pharmaceutical company along with a microblogging/social networking service company were among the bearish calls seen. Strong jobs numbers and an unemployment rate of 3.8% reported on Friday were not enough to push major indexes higher. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended its fourth week of losses and bond yields recorded their biggest one-week fall since March 2020 as the Russian military invasion of Ukraine intensified. The Dow finished the week down 1.3%, the S&P 500 also fell by 1.3% while the Nasdaq dropped by 2.8% for the week. The price of front-month futures for Brent Crude Oil rose 25% this week to $118.11, closing at its highest level since 2013. Goldman Sachs analysts said Thursday that higher oil prices and the resulting spike in gas prices are the “key inflation risk for the United States.” Benzinga continues to examine the prospects for many of the stocks most popular with investors.

A new statistical report covering the Russian smartphone market for 2021 showed that while the market shrank by 7% year-over-year, Apple was able to grow and be the top revenue maker… Want to view the…

Businesses join growing list including Apple, General Motors and Netflix who have already stopped operations in Russia

The Snap Map feature, which shows where Snaps were taken, can be pretty useful for those who want to know the hottest places to visit in an area — not so much for people trying to flee a war. That''s why, as a safety precaution, Snap has temporarily disabled the "heatmap" feature for public posts in Ukraine. Typically, the Snap Map highlights places where there are tons of Snaps taken with a glowing red circle and spots where some posts were made with a blue circle. If you look at the feature in the app or on the web , you''ll see that there are no longer indicators placed over Ukraine. As a safety precaution we have temporarily disabled the Snap Map’s "heatmap" of public Snaps in Ukraine. We will continue to offer curated Stories comprised of Snaps submitted in Ukraine. — Snapchat Support (@snapchatsupport) March 5, 2022 Other tech companies had also disabled features that can show the movements of Ukrainians leaving the country, which is currently under attack from Russia. Google disabled live traffic data in Ukraine, including the live traffic layer for Maps, to protect the safety of locals.

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Microsoft announced it suspended new sales in Russia in order to further aid Ukraine in the war. Apple, Nike and other companies have cut ties also.

It’s finally time! After several months of quiet, Apple is ready to ramp things up again with its first event of 2022, scheduled for Tuesday, March 8. Unsurprisingly, our top stories for this week are centered around the event, and they include the announcement itself, our overviews of what we should and shouldn’t expect to …

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A Russian businessman has offered a $1 million bounty for Vladimir Putin on a poster saying: ‘Wanted: Dead or Alive’. Alex Konanykhin said on various social media posts that he would pay the money for the ‘arrest of Putin as a war criminal under international law’. Alex Konanykhin said he would pay the money for the ‘arrest of Putin as a war criminal under international law’ Konanykhin claimed that the Russian president could not be called the leader of his country because he ‘murdered his opponents’. The post included a mocked up poster which read: ‘Wanted: Dead or Alive. Vladimir Putin. For Mass Murder.’ After Facebook banned the post, Konanykhin insisted he was not asking for people to kill Putin and wanted him ‘brought to justice’. The post said: ‘I promise to pay $1,000,000 to the officer(s) who, complying with their constitutional duty, arrest(s) Putin as a war criminal under Russian and international laws. ‘Putin is not the Russian president as he came to power as the result of a special operation of blowing up apartment buildings in Russia, then violated the Constitution by eliminating free elections and murdering his opponents.

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New efforts by the Kremlin to bully the press and silence dissent are forcing independent media and social networks out of the country. Why it matters: Russians are losing access to independent reporting about the war, while the West loses insight into an already isolated leader. The people of Russia “have a right to know about the death, suffering and destruction being inflicted by their government on the people of Ukraine,” a White House spokesperson told Axios. They also have a right “to know about the human costs of this senseless war to their own soldiers.” Driving the news: Bloomberg and the BBC said they are suspending operations in Russia, while CNN, CBS and ABC ceased broadcasting in the country after lawmakers approved new legislation Friday that threatens to imprison journalists and individuals for up to 15 years if they publish what Moscow deems to be "fake" information about Russia''s invasion of Ukraine. Bloomberg editor-in-chief John Micklethwait said in a note to staff the change to the criminal code "makes it impossible to continue any semblance of normal journalism inside the country." BBC director-general Tim Davie said BBC was not prepared to expose journalists "to the risk of criminal prosecution simply for doing their jobs." Russian regulators warned media at the start of the war that outlets were only allowed to use government-sourced information to report on the invasion.

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