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Apple and Google instructed by House committee to prepare to dump TikTok next month
A supporter holds up a sign that read “TikTok” during a news conference on TikTok in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 22, 2023. Alex Wong | Getty Images House Committee members are urging the top executives of Apple and Google to be prepared to comply with a law that could […]
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Broadcom stock jumps 21%, pushing company past $1 trillion market cap for the first time
A sign is posted in front of a Broadcom office in San Jose, California, on Dec. 12, 2024. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Shares of Broadcom popped more than 21% Friday morning, pushing the company’s market cap beyond $1 trillion for the first time. It will be Broadcom’s best trading day on record if the move […]
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Singapore, Vietnam firms in talks for new undersea cables, Reuters reports
Single fibers of a fiber optic cable. Oed | ullstein bild | Getty Images Singaporean asset manager Keppel and Vietnamese conglomerate Sovico Group are discussing plans for new undersea fiber-optic cables that would boost the region’s data centre industry, people familiar with the discussions said. Southeast Asian countries, a major junction for cables connecting Asia to […]
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Facebook, Instagram and other Meta apps go down due to ‘technical issue’
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms, during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta’s family of apps including Facebook and Instagram were down on Wednesday, resulting in users being unable to access the services. The widespread outages began around 9:57 a.m. […]
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Oracle shares head for worst day of 2024 after earnings miss
Larry Ellison, chairman and co-founder of Oracle Corp., speaks during the Oracle OpenWorld 2017 conference in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Oracle shares dropped 8% on Tuesday and headed for their steepest drop in a year following the database software vendor’s disappointing earnings […]
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Google claims quantum computing milestone — but the tech can’t solve real-world problems yet
A woman bikes by a giant Google logo at Google’s Bay View campus in Mountain View, California on Aug 13, 2024 where the “Made by Google” media event was held today. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Google has unveiled a new chip that it says marks a major breakthrough in the field of […]
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Oracle shares slide on earnings and revenue miss
Oracle chairman and chief technology officer Larry Ellison speaks at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Sept. 16, 2019. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images Oracle shares slid 7% in extended trading on Monday after the database software company reported fiscal second-quarter results that fell short of analysts’ estimates. Here […]
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Comcast shares tumble as executive calls broadband ‘intensely competitive’
View from behind of Comcast truck parked on residential street in Lafayette, California, September 28, 2021. Smith Collection/gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images Comcast Cable CEO Dave Watson told investors on Monday that the company expects to lose more than 100,000 broadband subscribers during the fourth quarter as the market remains “competitively intense.” Comcast […]
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Reddit begins testing AI-powered answers feature to win more users
Reddit is rolling out a new artificial intelligence feature designed to help people quickly find answers based on user posts, the company said Monday. A small portion of Reddit’s U.S. user base will have access to the Reddit Answers feature as part of an initial test before the company rolls the feature out more broadly. […]
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Waymo to expand to Miami, aims to launch robotaxi service there in 2026
A Waymo autonomous self-driving Jaguar taxi drives along a street on March 14, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images Waymo is setting its sights on its next location: the Sunshine State. The Alphabet-owned company announced Thursday that it will be hitting the roads in Miami. Waymo said it will first begin […]
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