The hostile takeover of Qualcomm continues, with Broadcom offering not just $60 per share of Qualcomm, but more than double the amount of stock for the combined entity that current shareholders will reap, should the deal conclude.
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A South Korean corruption scandal involving millions of dollars in bribes made by Samsung’s de facto leader Lee Jae-yong in exchange for government favors has been conveniently pardoned just in time for Samsung to sponsor the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games.
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A small number of new #iPhoneX owners have been reporting that a call will sometimes come in to the device, the phone’s screen will not wake and respond to a touch quick enough to answer.
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Assuming current subscriber growth rates hold steady, Apple Music should surpass Spotify — if only in the U.S. — sometime this summer, a report claimed on Sunday.
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The latest version of the eBook creator application Vellum does just about everything to streamline book creation for iBooks, Kindle and paperback, other than write the text itself.
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KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes consumer demand for a next-generation 6.1-inch LCD iPhone will outpace that of two OLED models rumored to debut during this fall’s refresh cycle, buoying suppliers of LCD panels, aluminum chassis and other related components.
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According to noted analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Intel’s baseband chips are expected to power communications for Apple’s entire 2018 iPhone lineup, a supplier switch that would deal a major blow to market leader Qualcomm.
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Apple this week began collecting heart rate data from a wide number of Apple Watch owners who signed up to participate in a heart study being conducted in cooperation with Stanford Health.
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The Keymand iPad app connects to a Mac, and acts like a beefy, user-configurable MacBook Pro Touch Bar.
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The standout news was Apple’s most lucrative quarter ever, fueled by the iPhone despite an apparent decline in units. We also caught a glimpse of what’s coming — and not coming — to this year’s “iOS 12.”
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