Top trending after-hours tickers on Yahoo Finance: Apple (AAPL): Credit Suisse upgraded Apple to overweight from neutral, and raised the price target on the stock to $201 per share, implying a 16% upside from Tuesday’s close. Analyst Shannon Cross noted Apple’s growing services business and large customer base as bullish drivers for the stock. Apple shares are are up 15% in the past month. Digital World Acquisition Corporation (DWAC): Digital World Acquisition Corp., the SPAC set to merge… Source link
Read More »Apple, Activision Blizzard, Ally Financial and more
Stocks held on to gains Monday, reversing earlier declines, with the Nasdaq leading the way, closing up 0.62% to 13,128.05. Here are the top trending after-hours tickers on Yahoo Finance: Apple (AAPL), Activision Blizzard (ATVI), Ally Financial (ALLY): Berkshire Hathaway boosted its stake in Apple, Activision Blizzard, Ally Financial, Paramount Global (PARA) and Celanese (CE), according to a regulatory 13F filing. Berkshire added about 3.9 million shares of Apple, bringing its total stake in… Source link
Read More »Google pushes Apple to adopt RCS text messaging
Android mascots are lined up in the demonstration area at the Google I/O Developers Conference in the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Beck Diefenbach | Reuters Google, the developer of the Android, is increasing the pressure on Apple to adopt RCS, a next-generation standard for text messaging. It argues that Apple’s support of RCS would help prevent some of the problems that arise when iPhone users text with Android owners. Currently, images and video don’t show as clearly as they could, for… Source link
Read More »New Google site begs Apple for mercy in messaging war
Enlarge / Just a few of the many Google messaging logos. Can you name them all? Ron Amadeo Google has been unable to field a stable, competitive messaging platform for years and has thoroughly lost the messaging war to products with a long-term strategy. At least some divisions inside the company are waking up to how damaging this is to Google as a company, and now Google’s latest strategy is to… beg its competition… Source link
Read More »Google tries shaming Apple into adopting RCS with #getthemessage campaign
Google is kicking off a new publicity campaign today to pressure Apple into adopting RCS, the cross-platform messaging protocol that’s meant to be a successor to the aging SMS and MMS standards. The search giant has a new “Get The Message” website that lays out a familiar set of arguments for why Apple should support the standard, revolving around smoother messaging between iPhone and Android devices. Naturally, there’s also a #GetTheMessage hashtag to really get those viral… Source link
Read More »South Korea to probe Apple and Google over in-app payment rule break – TechCrunch
South Korea’s communication watchdog, the Korea Communications Commission (KCC), said Tuesday it will investigate Apple and Google over potential violations of the country’s in-app payment rule. Local media reports noted that the agency will start this investigation on August 16. Apart from Apple and Google, the KCC is also investigating SK Group’s homegrown app store called ONE Store. The watchdog said that it had looked into the practices of all three app… Source link
Read More »Mobile App Distribution Market Statistical Forecast, Trade Analysis 2022 –Apple, Google, Huawei, Samsung, XiaoMi, Tencent, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, BBK, Baidu, Yandex
The latest research on “Mobile App Distribution Report 2022” offered by MRA provides a comprehensive investigation into the geographical landscape, industry size along with the revenue estimation of the business. Additionally, the report also highlights the challenges impeding market growth and expansion strategies employed by leading companies in the “Market”. Mobile App Distribution market competition by TOP Players are: Apple, Google, Huawei, Samsung, XiaoMi, Tencent,… Source link
Read More »Why Starbucks, Apple and Google are unionizing now for the first time
For decades, union membership has been on the decline. Yet in the last few months, workers have been organizing at a pace this country hasn’t seen since the Great Depression. Amazon has captured headlines for union drives at its warehouses, including a successful effort on New York’s Staten Island. But activity is picking up elsewhere in retail and tech at big companies that are generally viewed as progressive, with no history of labor unions. As of Wednesday, 209 Starbucks stores have… Source link
Read More »Apple, Google, Amazon set to launch new gadgets: What to expect
Apple launches the iPhone 13 in the UK Ming Yeung | Getty Images Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung and other firms are teeing up for a busy fall filled with lots of new gadget launches. It’s like clockwork. Big tech companies launch the latest products, like phones, watches, or even robots and flying security drones, beginning in August and up through November, to gear up for the holiday shopping rush. Samsung kicks it off next week, on August 10, when it will announce new folding phones, giving it… Source link
Read More »Google, Apple Back Affirmative Action in Harvard Case (3)
Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Meta Platforms Inc. and Apple Inc. are among nearly 80 companies filing a brief with the US Supreme Court in support of affirmative action programs being challenged at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. The brief filed Monday argues corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts “depend on university admissions programs that lead to graduates educated in racially and ethnically diverse environments.” “Only in this way can America produce a… Source link
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