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The sudden halt to the legal battle over a terrorist’s phone may only intensify the larger fight over privacy and encryption.
Apple and Major League Baseball struck a multi-year agreement to equip every team with iPad Pro tablets to help coaching staffs make better use of data.
Music-streaming site Spotify has raised $1 billion in convertible debt from investors, a deal that extends the money-losing company’s runway but comes with some onerous guarantees.
Markets around the globe tuned in as Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen sounded a dovish note Tuesday.
Reader Dale Henn of St. Louis says that he believes “the FBI is doing all it can to protect U.S. citizens, as it should. … Claiming the FBI effort is about power denigrates the difficult job the FBI has to keep us safe in a world with terrorists.” How do you view the epic battle between Apple and the FBI? Let us know.
Among the companies with shares expected to trade actively in Tuesday's session are Affymetrix Inc., Keryx Biopharmaceuticals Inc., and Conn's Inc.
Audio-sharing platform SoundCloud on Tuesday began selling paid subscriptions to one of the biggest music catalogs online, a move that will test the willingness of young consumers to pay for tunes from a service they’re accustomed to using free of charge.
The boards of Sharp and Foxconn will meet separately on Wednesday to discuss a revised takeover package that could initially shave more than $2 billion off the nearly $6 billion price for Japanese electronics maker Sharp.
At a time of rising regulatory and legal pressure on tech companies around with the world, the outcome has an only-in-America sort of feel. Apple had its day in court and it won a battle of principle against a powerful arm of the government, which decided to walk away, at least for now, from the fight.
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As banks continue to spend heavily on compliance, they aren’t doing as well at making sure the other parts of the company that implement the policies created by compliance have the proper resources to do their jobs, said one compliance consultant.
Good morning. Finance chiefs are devising new measures of corporate success, shifting which metrics they disclose to investors amid an environment of changing delivery methods and customer tastes. Software giant Adobe is one of the latest companies to change the way it defines success, opting to no longer disclose subscriber numbers.
Internet-radio giant Pandora is betting that its charismatic founder, Tim Westergren, can help it strike crucial licensing deals with the music industry.
The government said it had cracked a terrorist’s iPhone without Apple’s help and is seeking to drop its legal case to force the tech giant to unlock the device.
Human-rights research group Citizen Lab said Tencent’s QQ Browser collected and transmitted data with weak encryption technology or without any encryption at all.
The 2013 attack against the Rye Brook, N.Y. facility reflects the vulnerability of industrial control systems, many of which are old and predate the modern Internet, according to the WSJ. As CIO Journal reported last year, industrial control systems faced at least 245 cybersecurity incidents in fiscal year 2014, the Department of Homeland Security said in a report.
Many investors are starting to position themselves for a reversal of a recent market rally.
Apple fired a broadside at what remains of the PC industry last week, when its marketing chief claimed the company’s new iPad Pro is aimed at anyone still using an old PC. Still, it isn’t clear Apple’s iPad Pro can deliver on that goal—at least not yet.
At its Build conference, Microsoft will press its case that developers can write an application once and have it run on PCs, tablets, smartphones and game consoles.
The struggle of the fire department in Menlo Park, Calif., to keep its firefighters close is an effect of the tech boom: Housing is too expensive for middle-class workers.