Monday morning deals have arrived with triple digit discounts on current MacBooks, MacBook Pros and iMacs. Prices start at $1,099 for the 12″ models (up to $380 off), while an upgraded 13″ Touch Bar MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage is $1,999 after a $200 cash discount. Many models also qualify for no interest financing.
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Microsoft is reportedly planning to increase the integration of Cortana in Outlook for iOS, with the digital assistant said to be undergoing internal testing that could eventually allow users of the popular email client to manage their iPhone-based messages using verbal requests alone.
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Malaysian Apple retailer Switch was forced to cancel a clearance event with the iPhone 5s for $50 and iPads as low as $77, after a throng of 11,000 descended upon the company’s warehouse sale.
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The U.S. Treasury Department’s Committee on Foreign Investment (CFIUS) has ordered Apple supplier Qualcomm to delay a shareholders meeting 30 days, postponing — if not potentially derailing — Broadcom’s attempted $117 billion hostile takeover.
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In the wake of Twitter killing the official Mac app, there’s going to be a power vacuum — and Twitterrific can, and does, fill it.
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Apple will continue to be a major customer of Dialog Semiconductor, the chip manufacturer’s chief executive has claimed in an interview, insisting Dialog will continue supplying components for use in a number of Apple products until 2020, despite rumors that the iPhone producer may change how it sources some of its power management hardware.
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Xiaomi is aiming to enter the U.S. smartphone market by the end of 2018, or early 2019 at the latest, the Chinese company’s chairman said on Monday, speaking on the sidelines of China’s yearly legislative session in Beijing.
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Apple supplier Finisar intends to make its new 700,000 square foot facility in Sherman, Texas the ‘VCSEL capital of the world,’ the firm’s vice president and general manager revealed, as part of tour of its under-construction production lines that will eventually supply the laser-based components used in the iPhone X as well as other industries.
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Another report claims that high-end over-the-ear headphones are expected from Apple — not Beats — before the end of 2018, but the data escaping Apple’s manufacturing chain remains nebulous and ill-defined.
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The European Union will soon release proposals to change the way it taxes major tech companies operating within the continent, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has revealed, with firms including Apple potentially being taxed at a rate of between 2 percent and 6 percent in the future.
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