Apple announced on Monday morning that it plans to invest more than $430 billion and add 20,000 jobs across the US over the next five years. Initially, Apple established a five-year US investment goal of $350 billion in 2018, but the company says it’s on pace to surpass that benchmark well before 2023, which is …
Right off the top, as Apple’s “Spring Loaded” event was getting underway on Tuesday — this being the iPhone maker’s first virtual product launch event of 2021 — Apple CEO Tim Cook hit everyone with a surprise update about … Apple Card. That’s the company’s digital credit card product, which also has a companion physical …
Austin, Texas – April 18, 2021 – South by Southwest® (SXSW®) and P-MRC Holdings, LLC. announced a partnership today that aligns P-MRC as a long-term partner with and shareholder of SXSW, LLC. P-MRC, a joint venture between Penske Media Corporation and MRC whose holdings include some of the most influential brands in entertainment and music, …
Contact-free food delivery is one of many innovations dreamed up during the pandemic, but Domino’s wants to take the concept to a new level. On Monday, Domino’s announced that it has partnered with self-driving delivery company Nuro to bring autonomous pizza deliveries to Houston, Texas as part of a pilot program. As Domino’s explains in …
This is going to surprise absolutely no one, but less than a week after word that more than half a billion people had their personal data leaked from the world’s largest and least-loved social network, Facebook has apparently gone and done it again. A new Facebook data leak has been uncovered, this one including user …
Most of us, when we think of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, probably fixate on the stereotype of him as a detail-obsessed quasi-workaholic, whose near-mania when it came to the seemingly tiniest details brought about world-changing products like the iPhone and helped Apple became the most valuable company in the world. But Jobs’ former executive …
Monday was already shaping up to be a lively news day for tech journalists. That’s when the next episode of Sway, the podcast from The New York Times’ Kara Swisher, will be available to listen to, with the new interview subject being none other than Apple CEO Tim Cook. Swisher on Friday teased via Twitter …
When news broke out that a cargo ship blocked the Suez Canal a few days ago, it sounded like a joke at first. But with each day and meme that went by, it became increasingly clear that the issue was quite serious. It wasn’t just about Ever Given, the giant ship with its bow and …
Most businesses are familiar with the specialized industry that has arisen around how to get their listings more prominently displayed in Google Search rankings, with the mysterious algorithms and the arcane language associated with SEO and keywords that all that work entails. For many of those entrepreneurs, it’s a little like turning the key in …
Here’s a coronavirus pandemic-related update that reflects one of the many unanticipated but understandable-in-hindsight consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak that led to a widespread shift toward work-from-home arrangements for millions of people: Some car insurers may return even more money to customers soon, as the premiums those customers are paying arguably don’t make as much …
