Don’t hit snooze: Eve Sleep calls on Apple to scrap ‘detrimental’ snooze function in iOS update March 15, 2019 Mattress maker Eve Sleep has published an open letter asking that Apple delete the snooze function from its alarm clock app in iOS 12.2. Read more: Britain is sleepwalking into the clutches of the exhaustion industry The letter sent to Apple's London headquarters and addressed to chief executive Tim Cook asks Apple to “single-handedly improve the nation's sleep [...]
Apple slams Spotify for wanting ‘benefits of a free app without being free’ March 15, 2019 Apple has hit back at Spotify’s EU competition complaint, saying the streaming service wants “all the benefits of a free app without being free”. Earlier this week Spotify filed a complaint with EU competition authorities over the way the tech giant’s App Store works. Read more: Spotify reports Apple to EU commission over antitrust concerns [...]
Facebook hit with US criminal investigation over data-sharing deals March 14, 2019 US prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into Facebook over a number of data deals it struck with other major tech firms. A grand jury in New York has ordered two smartphone manufacturers to hand over records, the New York Times reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Read more: Facebook to encrypt more messages [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Unlikely to be a walk in the Park but Paisley can win the Stayers March 13, 2019 LIFE has not been easy for Andrew Gemmell, who has been blind since birth, but the owner of PAISLEY PARK knows how to have fun and the celebrations will be wild if his pride and joy can win today’s Sun Racing Stayers’ Hurdle. It is a wonderful story and his horse, who nearly died from [...]
Spotify reports Apple to EU commission over rules which ‘disadvantage’ app developers March 13, 2019 Spotify fired a broadside at Apple today as it reported its rival to the EU competition authorities over the way that the tech giant's App Store works. Chief executive Daniel Ek blasted what he called an "Apple tax" which forces his company to pay a 30 per cent commission for sales made via Apple's payment system. [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Apple’s can prevent Buveur D’Air winning for a third time March 11, 2019 WHEN BUVEUR D’AIR routed the highly-regarded Samcro on his seasonal reappearance at Newcastle back in December, a third Champion Hurdle victory appeared almost inevitable. That was his 11th straight win over hurdles since switching back from chasing and the big young pretender had failed to lay a glove on him. However, the shock defeat that [...]
‘Tim Apple’: Donald Trump makes latest name gaffe with Apple boss Tim Cook March 7, 2019 US President Donald Trump has referred to Apple chief executive Tim Cook as ‘Tim Apple’ in his latest name-related gaffe. Trump met with the Silicon Valley boss during a White House meeting of the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board, which was set up to help the country manage the shift to automation and artificial intelligence. [...]
Dialog shares boosted as deal with Apple fails to drag on predictions March 6, 2019 Shares in Dialog Semiconductor rose 2.2 per cent today despite fourth quarter results which showed a drop in revenues and predicted of a further fall in 2019. The Anglo-German chipmaker made a stock market bounce after posting better-than-expected fourth quarter results in the midst of an ongoing $600m (£460m) technology transfer deal with its biggest customer Apple. Read [...]
Five fintech trends to watch in 2019 March 6, 2019 There’s no shortage of stories on how tech breakthroughs will transform financial services, from changing the way we interact with our personal finances to threatening entire banking institutions with disruption. It can be difficult to predict exactly what this landscape will look like in the next few years, but most seem to agree that the [...]
‘Don’t believe everything you hear,’ Huawei tells Wall Street Journal readers March 1, 2019 Huawei has taken out a full-page advert in the Wall Street Journal, telling readers “Don’t believe everything you hear”, in an attempt to salvage its tarnished reputation in the US. Read more: Huawei takes ground from Apple and Samsung in smartphone war Catherine Chen, a director at the Chinese telecom giant, claimed the US government [...]