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Exploiting cheap labor isn’t why Apple makes its products in China

Jan 30, 2024

We all know the reason why so many technology companies manufacture their consumer electronics in China: labor costs in the...

Hilary Clinton wants Silicon Valley to help combat terrorism

Jan 30, 2024

Hillary Clinton is far from the only politician taking advantage of the recent attacks in Paris to call for weaker encryption,...

Europe just dealt a massive blow to American technology companies

Jan 30, 2024

The controversial "Safe Harbor" laws that allowed technology companies to move user data between the Europe Union and the United States were ruled...

Microsoft has developed its own Linux-based operating system

Jan 30, 2024

Considering Microsoft's history of exclusivity to its own ecosystem, it's still a little weird to see the company releasing products...

Google is helping app developers bypass Apple’s new security feature

Jan 30, 2024

Even though Google has made it clear that it supports Apple's concern for privacy and decision to implement more encryption...

Amazon has joined the anti-Flash campaign

Jan 30, 2024

Amazon has decided to join the ever-growing list of tech companies that are trying to finally kill off Flash by...

Yelp is in big trouble if it can’t reverse its losses

Jan 30, 2024

A year ago, Yelp was making a small but still respectable $2.7 million profit, but that number has transformed into...

BlackBerry wants to start releasing fewer smartphones every year

Jan 30, 2024

Reductions, reductions, reductions. That's been the gist of BlackBerry's strategy these past couple of years, and not just with the...

Yet another painfully bad quarter for the guys at AMD

Jan 30, 2024

The fall of the PC market is hurting several companies, but few of them are suffering as much as AMD....

Apple has asked its partners to manufacture 90 million iPhone 6S units

Jan 30, 2024

Apple is feeling pretty confident about the next iPhone. You wanna know how I know? The company apparently asked its...

Mozilla is stepping up its game to better compete with Google

Jan 30, 2024

Firefox still has a significant chunk of the web browser marker, and that doesn't look like its going to change anytime soon,...

Microsoft isn’t very impressed with the Oculus Rift

Jan 30, 2024

Apparently one of the guys down at Microsoft Research isn't very impressed with the Oculus Rift. More specifically, he didn't like the...