Apple’s intensifying in-house push: It already designs its own processors, and now it looks like Apple is moving to make its own Wi-Fi and 5G radios, displays, and touchscreens, reducing reliance on suppliers.
TSMC’s strategic expansion: The world’s largest contract chip manufacturer is eyeing expansion into Japan and Europe, a move that could prove useful in any future conflict with China.
Apple’s next move: The company lost $1 trillion in a year, saw China’s COVID-19 shutdowns diminish Q4 iPhone sales, and is now wrestling with shrinking demand for multiple products as consumers brace for a recession.
Netflix may have something to learn from Disney’s video game troubles: Disney turned around a troubled history with carefully selected licensing deals.
2023 layoffs expose Big Tech’s dirty laundry: Tone deafness, overexpansion, and lack of focus on security are the industry’s pressing problems that need to be resolved before the economy recovers.
Samsung’s sinking profits: Declining demand for PCs, smartphones, and memory is eroding the tech giant’s value in its consumer electronics and chip fabrication businesses.
Apple hits a bump on the road to becoming an ad giant: In an ATT twist, French regulators fined Apple for collecting advertising identifiers without user consent.
ogers-Shaw deal in jeopardy: The $26 billion merger would create the second-largest firm in Canada’s telecom oligopoly, but delays and uncertainty will drive down value.
Lenders have advantages oversuper app rivals which they can tap to gain an edge.
It’s time for podcast advertising to mature with its audience: The format has reached mainstream success, but ad solutions are lagging behind.
Google expands its cloud but pivots to a simplicity sprint to counter the down economy: Innovation could be dialed down further for 2023 as Big Tech’s most multifaceted behemoth rethinks its strategies.
Meta trapped in the middle of its past and future: One year after its bold pivot to the metaverse, Meta is wrestling with poor VR user adoption while desperately trying to resuscitate legacy apps in a flagging ad-revenue reality.
Smartphone consolidation continues: Apple’s iPhone continues to gain share in the high end of the smartphone market while consumers get fewer options for affordable or entry-level 5G devices.
Is Apple the next advertising titan? Apple committed to developing its ad business in 2022, but it faces stiff opposition from other Big Tech giants.
We look at 2022’s biggest tech flexes that changed the landscape of business or left us scratching our heads. The year saw Tesla’s CEO buying Twitter, Google exiting games, Amazon bringing back the dead, and TikTok expanding into various other segments.
2022’s outages increased and took longer to resolve: Wired and wireless networks continue to be under duress as Big Tech, streaming services, and cloud gaming proliferate while legacy infrastructure and overloaded systems buckled.
US government intensifies stance against TikTok: A permanent ban from government devices could push the public sector to further remove TikTok from devices. But some fear the service is too big to fail.
Why Apple profits by complying with regulations: Alternative app stores could be coming to iPhones and iPads, allowing Apple to cash in on developer verification.
Bipartisan bill seeks to outlaw TikTok in US: Given the app’s popularity, though, is this the hill most politicians want to die on?
Netflix looks to score big in gaming: Streamer increases platform offerings in hopes of luring mobile gamers as subscribers.