APPLE CEO TIM COOK WELCOMES PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN’S IMMIGRATION REFORMS

Highlights

• “This effort will strengthen American communities and the pathways to opportunity this country has long fostered” said Tim Cook in a statement

• Along with Cook, Biden’s reforms were also welcomed by Google executive Sundar Pichai

FOXCONN PLANNING INDIA IPO TO RAISE 5,000 BILLION RUPEES

HIGHLIGHTS

• The Indian arm of Foxconn Technology Group is preparing for initial public offer worth Rs 5,000 billion.
• The tech group wishes to expand its operations in India.
• Foxconn started its expansion plans in 2019.

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U.S.-BASED DIGITAL FITNESS COMPANY ONYX ACQUIRED BY CURE.FIT

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• Onyx which is currently making the world’s smartest digital training experience and also specialises in body tracking technology and personalisation of workout feedback

• The Cure.fit had recently launched in the US with its energy-meter tech, wher...

AMAZON WILL TAKE DOWN FEW QANON PRODUCTS FROM ITS WEBSITE

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• Amazon said it was taking efforts to take down some QAnon products from its online marketplace, citing policies that restrict offensive items or other inappropriate content

• Similarly tech company Apple dropped Parler from its App Store, while the cloud...

CHINA’S BAIDU AND GEELY’S MERGER TO ROLLOUT WITH SMART CARS

• Baidu will hone in with smart driving dynamics while Geely will offer design and manufacturing saliency.
• Geely is a pioneer in china’s automobile industry, and also is proprietor of Volvo and owns a stake in Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler.

The two companies...

AFTER GOOGLE, APPLE & AMAZON TOO TAKE DOWN PARLER FROM THEIR SERVICES

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• Parker was removed from their stores as the social media network was among those used to organize riots at the US Capitol

• While tech company Apple dropped Parler from its App Store, the cloud unit of Amazon decided to stop hosting it from Sunday night<...

S. KOREAN STOCKS OPENED LOW ON ITS MONDAY MORNING TRADING OVER PROFITS

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• S. Koreans stocks opened low on its Monday morning trading over profits.
• The benchmark KOSPI fell by 1.76 points.
• Samsung Electronics shares advanced 3.83 percent.
• Hyundai Motor shares surged 3.83 percent.
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APPLE CEO TIM COOK'S REMUNERATION WENT UP TO $15 MILLION IN 2020

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• Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Apple Inc Tim Cook earned $14,769,259 in the year 2020 which has been increased by 28 percent as compared to last year

• As per the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Cook’s non-equity incentive plan compensa...

TOP SEVEN TECH COMPANIES ADDED VALUE WORTH $3.4 TRILLION IN 2020

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• Tesla founder Elon Musk made it to the list of top three richest people on the planet by adding over $120 billion in net worth

• Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Tesla and Nvidia added a total $3.4 trillion together in market cap in the year...

HONG KONG POLICE INFORMED ABOUT APPLE DAILY JOURNALISTS WHO RAN VEHICLE INVESTIGATION

HIGHLIGHTS

• Hong Kong police have ordered newspaper Apple Daily to hand over the data of journalists who looked for public vehicle license plate records as a component of their revealing

The demand came after the capture of RTHK maker Choy Yuk-l...

FACEBOOK AND APPLE BATTLING OVER NEW DRAFT GUIDELINES BY EUROPEAN UNION

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• Facebook and Apple are battling over the new draft guidelines given by the European Union
• The company ‘Facebook’ has been objecting to the privacy policies of the company ‘Apple’

The tech giants Fa...

NEW EU RULES LIKELY TO FORCE U.S. TECH FIRMS TO CHANGE BUSINESS PRACTICES IN EUROPE

Highlights

• This move has been made to keep tech giants in control and curb the emergence of anti-competitive dominant companies

• As per the new draft EU rules major technology companies in the U.S. including likes of Apple and Facebook may require to change their ...

MUNGYEONG FARMER GAINS RAVE REVIEWS FOR GROWING RARE APPLES WITH HONEYSWEET FLAVOR

• Sohn Seong-kook, a farmer who is committed and engrossed in growing premium apples in Mungyeong, North Gyeongsang Province, calls himself a "happy farmer" who has drawn the focal attention of apple lovers.
• Among others, the Gamhong apples he grows have gained rave rev...

CALIFORNIA LAUNCHES VIRUS CONTACT-TRACING APP, BECOMES BIGGEST U.S. STATE TO DO SO

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• This app named as the CA Notify App has been launched and will become accessible to people from Thursday

• While Android users in California can download it from the Google Play store, iPhone users can activate the exposure notifications tool from the se...

CHINA’S BOE SHOWN THE DOOR; SAMSUNG AND LG TO MANUFACTURE DISPLAYS FOR IPHONE 12

• China's display maker BOE has reportedly failed to come level with Apple’s aspirations as an OLED panel supplier for Apple’s iPhone.
• BOE’s B7 assembly line at Chengdu, Sichuan district has not passed Apple’s review for OLED supply.

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MAJORITY OF PARTS USED IN IPHONE 12 ARE KOREAN-MAKE OVERRIDING U.S.

• The ratio of Korean parts used in Apple 's latest smartphone iPhone 12 is higher than that of U.S. parts.
• The Nihon Keizai Shimbun of Japan noted on Nov. 21 that a part by part breakdown of the iPhone 12 by Formalhaut Techno Solutions in Tokyo showed that Korean parts ...

TSMC BEATS SAMSUNG COMPREHENSIVELY IN CHIP MANUFACTURING RACE

• A media report from Taiwan concluded  that TSMC, the world’s No. 1 foundry based in Taiwan, has brought in advance more than half of  EUV lithography equipment that will be manufactured by ASML of the Netherlands in 2021.
• The reason Samsung is investing in EUV l...

U.S. FDA APPROVES SALE OF AN APPLE WATCH APP THAT REDUCES SLEEP DISTURBANCE

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• This app called NightWare is a digital therapeutic app that uses Apple’s Watch and iPhone, configured and logged into a software application, that aids in tracking sleep disturbance

• Carlos Peña, director at FDA's Center for Devices and...

AROUND 6,000 SHINANO GOLD APPLES STOLEN FROM AN ORCHARD IN NORTHEASTERNN JAPAN

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• Around 6,000 gold apples stolen from an orchard in Northeastern Japan.
• A report was filed by the farmer in the Iwate Prefecture town of Shiwa.
• The orchard is managed by the director of the fruit producers’ associat...

APPLE ONE: NEWEST STREAMING PLATFORM ON THE BLOCK

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• With Apple One, Apple directly aims to take on Amazon Prime along with Netflix, Disney Plus and other streaming platforms

• Apple arrives with three plans, individual, family and premier, and each plan offers some subset or combination of Apple Music, Ap...