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An Apple store in Southlake, Texas, is closed Wednesday through Sunday this week following an outbreak of positive Covid-19 cases among staff members. Apple Southlake Town Square, 260 Grand Avenue, Southlake, Texas According to an internal email obtained by NBC News, the store, which has 151 employees, reported four positive cases immediately after Black Friday…
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Tile is preparing to introduce a new product this year that will take advantage of UWB (ultra wideband) technology as Apple prepares to launch their long-expected AirTags, TechCrunch reports. Current Tile trackers use Bluetooth to help users locate lost items, but the company’s new product will take advantage of UWB (ultra-wideband) technology to find the…
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Foxconn plans to resume 50% of production output in virus-hit China by end of February, a source told Reuters on Wednesday, as the major Apple-supplier reopens plants shut over the 2019-nCoV coronavirus outbreak. So far, according to Caixin, there have been 44,742 known cases of 2019-nCoV, with 16,067 suspected, 4,742 recovered patients, and 1,114 deaths….
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President Trump today heaped praise on the four big tech companies with trillion dollar plus market caps, the trillion dollar MAGA club. In case you’ve been under a rock for several years, MAGA is short for “Make America Great Again,” a 2016 election year slogan of the Trump campaign. The 2020 version is “Keep America…
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Apple’s built-in voice assistant Siri is now able to answer U.S. election questions, as well as deliver live results as votes are counted, which may be of interest to the Iowa Democratic Party. 😉 The live results are being delivered via the Associated Press which will provide county-by-county results and a national map that tracks…
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The 2019-nCoV coronavirus outbreak, that has sickened 43,000 people and killed at least 1,018, according to the latest numbers from the World Health Organization, may be a smaller risk to Chinese manufacturing than feared, according to JPMorgan. Ciara Linnane for MarketWatch: Manufacturing facilities in Hubei are limited, they wrote. And the biggest industries, autos and…
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“A week after KGI forecast that Apple would sell around 2.5M iPad Pros this quarter (down from far bigger numbers before launch),” Ben Lovejoy reports for 9to5Mac, “RBC Capital Markets has predicted a more conservative 1M per month, suggesting around 1.7M units this quarter.” “Whoever is right,” Lovejoy reports, “Business Insider notes that even the…
“Apple’s rapidly growing enterprise story becomes even more compelling thanks to bigtincan, one of over two-dozen partners helping widen iPad’s offer for the enterprise, so it’s just one among a series of solutions to expand the company’s reach into the space,” Jonny Evans writes for Computerworld. “bigtincan develops an intelligent and secure solution for delivery…
“The big money doubted Apple Inc. this year. Oops,” Lu Wang and Oliver Renick report for Bloomberg News. “Aversion to the iPhone maker is turning out to be one of the worst blunders in 2014 for money managers, who are trailing benchmark indexes by the most in almost a decade,” Wang and Renick report. “Shares…
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“Privately owned Xiaomi Technology Ltd Co [XTC.UL] booked 347.5 million yuan ($56 million) in net profit last year, according to a regulatory filing that showed the world’s No.3 smartphone maker grappling razor-thin margins,” Gerry Shih reports for Reuters. “The figure casts new light on the growth of a company that reached third place in just…
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