Dutch competition regulator fines Apple another $5.6 mn

05:10am, Tuesday, 15'th Feb 2022 Buziness Bytes
London, Feb 15 (IANS) The Netherlands’ competition watchdog has fined Apple another $5.6 million for failing to comply with its order on dating-app providers. The Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) said the revised conditions that Apple has imposed on dating-app providers are unreasonable, and create an unnecessary barrier. “The new conditions stipulate that dating-app […] The post Dutch competition regulator fines Apple another $5.6 mn appeared first on Buziness Bytes .
The Dutch antitrust watchdog fined Apple 5 million euros (US$5.7 million) again on Monday, its fourth such fine for failing to allow software application makers in the Netherlands to use non-Apple payment methods for dating apps on the App Store.The Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has been levying weekly fines of 5 million euros on Apple since the company missed a January 15 deadline to make changes ordered by the watchdog.Apple’s app-store payment policies, in particular its…
Foxconn, a major Apple supplier, has partnered with Indian conglomerate Vedanta to make semiconductors in the in India amid a global chip shortage.
A new report verifies two studies that map TikTok''s source code to check its app behaviour and data collection practices. The deep dive raises a number of concerns that are now being flagged by cybersecurity experts.
Apple is rolling out a new update to the Apple Support app for iPhone and iPad . This update b The post Apple Support app for iPhone and iPad adds new ‘price estimates’ feature, more appeared first on Top Tech News .

How A Helium Shortage Could Crash The Internet

12:30am, Tuesday, 15'th Feb 2022 OilPrice com
Today, all the biggest names in tech are likely to find themselves scrambling to get their hands on more of this ultra-rare commodity. Without it, Netflix couldn’t stream movies and shows to TVs around the world. Google couldn’t support the 5.6 billion searches made per day. And Apple couldn’t produce the millions of iPhones and Apple Watches that so many fanatics die for. However, Big Tech’s house of cards may be closer than ever to falling apart because of a massive supply squeeze that’s only getting worse. That’s…

Why Nasdaq-styled NGX platform faces uncertainty

12:02am, Tuesday, 15'th Feb 2022 BusinessDay
The Nigerian Exchange Group (NGX) wants to launch a Nasdaq-style board where technology companies are the focus, but this may be a hard sell for investors who are not patient with early-stage companies. Earlier this month, Temi Popoola, managing director, NGX, said the NGX will launch a technology board this year that will attract technology companies. “We believe that listing more tech companies should attract more capital into Nigeria, including Nigerians in the diaspora, foreign investors and local investors as well. It would also help them achieve the fundamental responsibility of improving the economy by driving capital from surplus places to sectors that need it,” Popoola said. The Nasdaq platform is an American stock exchange based in New York City. It has a high concentration of companies in the technology sector and is often considered to be a good barometer of how well the tech market is performing. The tech-heavy company consists of 3,097 listed securities as of April 2021, including the likes of Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook and Tesla.

Big Tech''s Big Returns and Sports Business in the Spotlight

11:45pm, Monday, 14'th Feb 2022 The Motley Fool
Apple posts record revenue. Microsoft makes its intentions clear with respect to its gaming division.
Berkshire Bought Activision In Q4 Ahead Of Microsoft Purchase; Added To Chevron, Trimmed Visa, Mastercard And Pharma Stocks In the weeks before Microsoft made the surprise announcement it was acquiring the troubled Activision, the market was rife with speculation that Berkshire itself could make a play - no pun intended - for the foundering video game company whose stock had tumbled so much in the fourth quarter amid poor earnings and sexual harassment scandals, many viewed it as a deep value play suitable even for Warren Buffett. In retrospect, that didn''t pan out, but as we learned today after the quarterly 13F bonanza hit, Berkshire was buying Activision in Q4 when the stock was tumbling, and as of Dec 31, Berkshire owned 14.658 million shares of Activision stock, representing 1.9% of the shares outstanding. Assuming Buffett bought around the average price for the quarter, or $65, Berkshire made around $250 million on that purchase alone which is not a bad payout for a few weeks worth of work (one wonders if the information that Buffett was buying somehow leaked, and prompted Microsoft''s unexpected acquisition of ATVI).

Apples Headset to Use Memojis for FaceTime Calls in VR

09:30pm, Monday, 14'th Feb 2022 Sada ElBalad English
Apples upcoming headset might give FaceTime video calls a VR spin, allowing users to interact via digital avatars in the form of a Memoji, reports revealed on Monday. Bloombergs Mark Gurman stated that for group FaceTime calls, those wearing Apples headset might be able to switch to a VR version where they interact via their []

Apple Ranks Seventh With Over 2,500 U.S. Patents Granted in 2021

07:57pm, Monday, 14'th Feb 2022 State Of Press
Apple was granted 2,541 patents in the United States last year, surpassed by only six other companies, IFI Claims reports. In its rankings of the top 50 U.S. patent assignees in 2021 (via Patently Apple), IFI Claims Patent Services shows that Apple was granted 250 fewer patents in 2021 compared to the previous year, a …
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Meta revealed last September that it had been underreporting iOS web conversions by approximately 15% due to the privacy changes Apple implemented in its operating system. Director of product marketing, ads Goksu Nebol-Perlman said in a blog post Monday that the company roughly halved its underreporting, to about 8%. The company noted that it arrives
Apple today updated its Apple Support app designed for the iPhone and iPad, introducing a new feature that provides price estimates for common repairs in select locations. When using the Support app after installing the update, you can tap on a device that you own in the “My Devices” list and then choose “Repairs & …
What’s new: Metaverse social app Zheli (啫喱) has been removed from Apple’s Chinese App Store after apparently becoming a victim of its own sudden and blistering success. Publisher Beijing Particle Information Technology Co. Ltd. said in a social media post (link in Chinese) Sunday that it had taken down Zheli that day due to “technical […] China’s Most Popular Metaverse App Removed From Apple’s App Store
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