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Summary List PlacementAt its 36th annual developers conference — dubbed the Worldwide Developers Conference or WWDC — Apple announced operating system updates, new features, and enhanced developer tools during its two hour opening keynote. Developers received some long-awaited updates on Xcode, Apple's app for building applications for its phones and other devices, and Swift Playgrounds, an app that teaches the fundamentals of app development...

Summary List PlacementFor years, comparisons between Apple and Tesla haven't merely been commonplace — they've been expected.  Some of this could be chalked up to timing. Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs died in 2011, leaving the tech world with a visionary vacuum. Tesla was on the verge of launching its first original vehicle, the Model S sedan, positioning Elon Musk to assume Jobs'...

Summary List PlacementPrivacy has become the central battleground in the ongoing war for market share between browser makers including Google, Apple, Mozilla, Microsoft and niche providers such as Brave. Google Chrome is the world's most popular browser on desktop and on computer, with 70% of desktop share, and 64% on mobile according to NetMarketShare. For many users, Chrome and Google are bywords for access...

Summary List PlacementVice President-elect Kamala Harris is no stranger to Silicon Valley. Before she was the senator from California, she was the state's attorney general. Before that, she was district attorney in San Francisco. When she heads to the White House in January, she will do so with more experience with Big Tech than probably anyone else ever elected to national office. For many,...

Summary List Placement If you've bought a new iPhone in the past few years, you might not think much about the fact that when you open Safari and type in a search the results you get come from Google. Most people use Google to search on the internet anyway — what you got was what you expected. It was familiar. It was also not...

Summary List Placement Antitrust seems to be back in fashion as a topic of concern in Washington, DC, particularly after Congress harangued the heads of four leading tech companies earlier this summer about their alleged anticompetitive moves. But any real effort to promote competition and constrain monopolies is going to require a major reassessment — and quite possibly a revamping — of laws, policies,...

The stock market's recovery following its coronavirus plunge has been led by the so-called FAANG stocks — Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google parent Alphabet — along with Microsoft. After outperforming the S&P 500 for the year, those companies now comprise more than 20% of the total market capitalization of that index. There's a good case for the run-up in the shares of Netflix,...

The stock markets have seen a big resurgence since the coronavirus crisis caused a huge sell-off. Many investors may be looking to put money into the market. Tech stock and mutual funds are two time-tested strategies for investing. Below is a list of the top tech-focused mutual and exchange-traded funds based on their performance over the last five years, as compiled by Morningstar Direct...

Chris Lattner, the former Apple engineer who created the iOS programming language Swift, joined the artificial intelligence chip startup SiFive in January to head platform engineering there. While Lattner is focusing on software for chips now, he says it's similar to what he's been doing throughout his career at Apple, Tesla, and Google because he's building tools. Lattner says the three tech giants he's...

Apple offered what it called a "wider-than-usual" revenue forecast for its current quarter, attributing it to the uncertainty over the impact of the deadly coronavirus on the company's business. But the spread in its range was actually the same as what it offered in three of its previous five quarters. Apple officials do seem wary of the outbreak, which has been making its way...

Apple's stock has essentially doubled in the last year, giving it a price-to-earnings valuation at the high-end of its recent range. But that doesn't mean it's overpriced, said Dan Morgan, a senior portfolio manager with Synovus Trust. Apple's stock sold off in late 2018 and early 2019 after its sales plunged in China and overall, but its overall business has stabilized and certain businesses...