Foxconn’s chairman, Terry Gou, said on Wednesday that he’s running to become President of Taiwan, a move that could trigger political and economic waves including at Apple.

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Without Apple buying its 5G modems in annual volumes greater than 200M units, Intel had little chance of staying afloat in competition with Qualcomm. However, the Open Handset Alliance of Android phone makers is the bigger casualty of the deal, because they’re losing the strongest marketing point they’ve had to rival iPhones in ten years: exclusive access to Qualcomm’s leading 5G modem chips.

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Apple is stepping up its automotive efforts as part of “Project Titan,” with the firm reportedly in discussions with a number of component suppliers about LiDAR sensors that could be used in the iPhone maker’s next generation of self-driving vehicle systems.

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A Taiwanese report claims that Apple may revive the iPhone 8 with updated internals early in 2020, but analysts are wary of the proposition.

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Apple has published a new video in its ‘Shot on iPhone’ series to its YouTube channel. ‘Don’t Mess with Mother’ shows Mother Nature in all its forms from undersea life to plants and an avalanche.

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AirPower is dead. While that particular accessory will never see the light of day, there are technologies that were going to be shown off in the AirPower that can still be scavenged from the corpse — and some limitations that Apple is now unshackled from, now that the AirPower is gone.

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Following weeks of legal wrangling, Apple and Google on Wednesday complied with government demands and removed popular video sharing app TikTok from their respective app stores.

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A new class action lawsuit takes Apple to task over an always rosy outlook on future financials, claiming company executives made materially false statements concerning the health of its main business, iPhone, leading up to a revenue guidance correction in January.

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Apple supplier Intel on Tuesday announced plans to exit the 5G smartphone modem business, with the decision arriving on the heels of a settlement reached in the wide sprawling Apple v. Qualcomm legal battle.

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A report on Tuesday claims the U.S. Department of Justice in April told T-Mobile and Sprint that a planned merger will not pass muster as currently structured, putting the massive $26 billion deal in jeopardy.

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