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Centre to come up with light-touch regulations for big tech firms: Report

This comes in the backdrop of signs that tech firms may slow down investment in India after the Competition Commission of India's (CCI's) penalty on Google

Foxconn offers more bonuses to win back protesting staff in iPhone city

Foxconn Technology Group is offering workers who left the Zhengzhou complex between Oct. 1 and Nov. 10 an extra 30 yuan ($4.20) an hour on top of their regular wages through December and January

Apple to lose 6 million iPhone Pros because of turmoil at China plant

Apple's shares fell 2.6% to $144.22 in New York on Monday, marking the biggest one-day drop in more than two weeks. They have declined 19% this year

Will make phones if Apple, Google remove Twitter from app stores: Elon Musk

Twitter is now facing a close scrutiny by both Apple and Google app stores and Musk is worried that the micro-blogging platform can get removed from the app stores

Apple makes about Rs 1.5 lakh every second, Microsoft pockets Rs 1.1 lakh

Do you know how much profit Apple makes every second? It is a staggering over Rs 1.48 lakh, making the iPhone maker the world's most profitable company

Tech giant Apple not planning to acquire Manchester United: Report

Tech giant Apple has no intentions to purchase Premier League club, Manchester United

Apple supplier Foxconn apologises, offers new hires $1,400 to quit

'We apologize for an input error in the computer system and guarantee that the actual pay is the same as agreed and in the official recruitment posters'

Apple, Spanish billionaire Ortega line-up to buy Manchester United: Report

According to a report the largest tech company in the world wants to add Manchester United to its portfolio with a probable £5.8 billion takeover from the owners, Glazers

Violent clashes in China likely to boost India's iPhone exports

India could account for up to 20% of Apple's global production capacity by FY26

Foxconn apologises for pay dispute at China factory in Zhengzhou

The company that assembles Apple Inc.'s iPhones apologised on Thursday for what it said was a technical error that led to protests by employees over payment of wages offered to attract them to a factory that is under anti-virus restrictions. Protests erupted on Tuesday in the central city of Zhengzhou after employees complained Foxconn Technology Group required they do extra work to receive the higher pay promised by recruiters. Foxconn is trying to rebuild its workforce after thousands of employees walked out last month over complaints about unsafe conditions. Videos on social media showed police in white protective suits kicking and clubbing protesting workers. Foxconn, the biggest contract assembler of smartphones and other electronics for Apple and other global brands, blamed the dispute on a technical error in the process of adding new employees. It promised they would receive the wages they were promised. "We apologise for an input error in the computer system and guarantee

China expands lockdown as Covid cases hit record high, mass testing ordered

China is expanding lockdowns, including in a cental city where factory workers clashed this week with police, as its number of COVID-19 cases hit a daily record. People in eight districts of Zhengzhou with a total of 6.6 million residents were told to stay home for five days beginning on Thursday, except to buy food or get medical treatment. Daily mass testing was ordered in what the city government called a war of annihilation against the virus. During clashes on Tuesday and Wednesday, Zhengzhou police beat workers protesting over a pay dispute at the biggest factory for Apple's iPhone. Across China, the number of new cases reported in the past 24 hours was 31,444, the National Health Commission said Thursday. That is the highest daily figure since the coronavirus was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019. The daily average of reported cases is steadily increasing. This week, authorities reported China's first COVID-19 deaths in six months, bringing the

Protesting workers beaten over pay dispute at Chinese iPhone factory

Police beat workers protesting over a pay dispute at the biggest factory for Apple's iPhone, whose new model is delayed by controls imposed as China tries to contain a surge in COVID-19 cases. Foxconn, the biggest contract assembler of smartphones and other electronics, is struggling to fill orders for the iPhone 14 after thousands of employees walked away from the factory in the central city of Zhengzhou last month following complaints about unsafe working conditions. China's status as an export powerhouse is based on factories such as Foxconn's that assemble the world's consumer electronics, toys and other goods. The ruling Communist Party is trying to contain the latest wave of outbreaks without shutting down factories and the rest of its economy as it did in early 2020. Its tactics include closed-loop management, under which workers live in their factories with no outside contact. Foxconn offered higher pay to attract more workers to the Zhengzhou factory to assemble the iPhone

Violent protests erupt at Apple's biggest iPhone-making plant in China

Hundreds of workers at Apple's main Foxconn plant in China clashed with security personnel, as tensions boiled over after almost a month under tough restrictions intended to quash a Covid outbreak

In layoff season, Google may fire 10,000 'low performing' employees

The news on layoff at Google has come within days of a letter that hedge fund TCI, an investor in the company, wrote to Alphabet. TCI has shares worth $6 billion in Alphabet

UK watchdog to investigate Apple, Google mobile browser dominance

Britain's competition watchdog on Tuesday launched an in-depth investigation into the dominance of the mobile browsers of Apple and Google

Apple's latest watchOS 9 update brings proper battery-saving mode

American tech giant Apple is introducing a true power-saving mode for the Apple Watch in the latest watchOS 9 update, extending the watch's battery life when necessary

Apple to source made-in-US chips for its devices to reduce reliance on Asia

Cook is likely referring to an Arizona factory that will be run by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Apple's exclusive chip-manufacturing partner.

Emergency SOS via satellite now available on iPhone 14 lineup in US, Canada

Apple on Tuesday announced that its safety service Emergency SOS via satellite is now available to customers in the US and Canada

Old sandals worn by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs auctioned for nearly $220K

The California house where Steve Jobs co-founded Apple is a historical site, and now the sandals he wore while pacing its floors have been sold for nearly USD 220,000, according to an auction house. The "well used" brown suede Birkenstocks dating to the mid-1970s set a record for the highest price ever paid for a pair of sandals, Julien's Auctions said Sunday. "The cork and jute footbed retains the imprint of Steve Jobs' feet, which had been shaped after years of use," the auction house said in the listing on its website. The sandals were expected to bring USD 60,000, but the final sale price with an accompanying NFT was USD 218,750, Julien's said. The buyer was not named. Jobs and Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple in 1976 at Jobs' parents' house in Los Altos, California. In 2013, the property was named a historic landmark by the Los Altos Historical Commission. Jobs died in 2011 from complications of pancreatic cancer.

Apple invests $450 mn for Emergency SOS via satellite for iPhone 14 models

If an iPhone user makes an Emergency SOS via satellite request, the message will be received by one of Globalstar's 24 satellites in low-earth orbit