„Censorship, Surveillance and Profits: A Hard Bargain for Apple in China“ — der New-York-Times-Artikel von Jack Nicas, Raymond Zhong und Daisuke Wakabayashi — kratzt mehrere Wundstellen auf. Im Fokus sollten allerdings die iCloud-Daten von chinesischen Nutzer:innen stehen. Apple’s China team warned Mr. Cook that China could shut down iCloud in the country if it didweiterlesen

Now Ms. Kern leads roughly 30 former journalists in Sydney, London, New York and Silicon Valley. They spend their days consuming news across the internet, fielding 100 to 200 pitches a day from publishers, and debating which stories get the top spots. Ultimately, they select five stories to lead the app, with the top twoweiterlesen

Nathaniel Popper vergleicht die Finanzkrise vor 10 Jahren mit dem Vertrauensverlust, den die sozialen Netzwerke derzeit erleiden. As I have watched the recent parade of tech executives being grilled by Washington lawmakers from across the political spectrum, it has been eerily reminiscent of the combative hearings the big banks faced back in 2009 and 2010.weiterlesen

Travis Kalanick, the chief executive of Uber, visited Apple’s headquarters in early 2015 to meet with Timothy D. Cook, who runs the iPhone maker. It was a session that Mr. Kalanick was dreading. For months, Mr. Kalanick had pulled a fast one on Apple by directing his employees to help camouflage the ride-hailing app fromweiterlesen