Kiwis around the country are partying to farewell 2020 and welcome in the new year. Thousands of people are in Victoria St West in central Auckland...
Continue reading...December 2020
McConnell refuses to budge on $2,000 stimulus checks as Schumer offers separate votes on other Trump demands
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said that Democrats would allow for votes limiting a liability shield for tech companies and establishing a commission to examine the...
Continue reading...Gene Munster, who called Apple’s run to $2 trillion, says a path to $3 trillion is in sight
Gene Munster told CNBC that Apple has a path to $200 per share. “It needs to be anchored in earnings. That’s the powerful piece about the...
Continue reading...Tech’s top seven companies added $3.4 trillion in value in 2020
Apple’s market cap jumped by almost $1 trillion this year, followed by Amazon, which increased by over $700 billion. Tesla catapulted into the ranks of the...
Continue reading...[Update: delayed] SpaceX Falcon 9 fleet to kick off 2021 with a flurry of launches
Right on schedule, one of SpaceX’s two drone ships left Port Canaveral on December 30th, heading into the Atlantic Ocean to prepare for the company’s first...
Continue reading...Record $120 trillion in stock traded hands on U.S. exchanges
Look at a screen at almost any point in 2020, and chances are you saw something like this: A company that nobody had ever heard of...
Continue reading...Daimler Trucks agreed to pay a $30 million civil penalty to settle claims that the German automaker failed to recall vehicles in a timely fashion
Daimler Trucks North America LLC agreed Thursday to pay a $30 million civil penalty to settle claims that the German automaker failed to recall vehicles in a...
Continue reading...Foldable iPhone may use geared hinges to fold inwards or outwards
Apple is researching the use of geared hinges that would strengthen a foldable iPhone’s screen. These hinges could allow the iPhone to be folded both inwards like a...
Continue reading...Samsung vice chairman Jay Y. Lee faces nine-year sentence in bribery case
Samsung Electronics vice chairman Jay Y. Lee faces a nine-year prison term in the bribery case that contributed to the downfall of former president Park Guen-hye....
Continue reading...Apple removes 39,000 game apps from China store to meet deadline
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Apple removed 39,000 game apps on its China store Thursday, the biggest removal ever in a single day, as it set year-end as...
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