
France angry over tech giant taxing
Stop talking and make them pay up
The French government is getting its baguettes in a knot over delays in getting the US tech giants to start paying tax.

TSMC sees profits fall
As an expected trade war looms
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing has reported a 0.9 percent fall in third quarter net profits.

Largest Apple collection up for sale
Or it might be destroyed
An Austrian computer repairman who collected the world’s biggest collection of old Apple computers has warned it will all be destroyed unless someone takes it off his hands.

Huawei throws a giant phone party
Hello Mate, here's the Mate20 Pro
Well over 2,000 people, from all over the world, poured into a conference hall in the Excel conference centre in London yesterday to see and listen to a complete bells and whistles exposition of the virtues of Huawei's latest range of phones the Mate 20 and the Mate20 Pro.

Kanye West wants Apple to build Trump an 'iPlane'
And for once we agree with him
Popular beat combo artist and Trump luvvie Kanye West thinks it would be a really good idea if Apple built an iPlane for Donald Trump. While we don’t normally agree with Apple building anything for anyone, we think this might actually save the world.

Apple buys part of Dialog cheap
After dumping the company as a supplier
Apple is to buy part of Dialog Semiconductor’s business in a $600 million deal after it knifed the company last year.

Apple set to SOC it to 'em, baby
If you go it alone, you make more money
A senior analyst predicted at a conference in Barcelona today that following its success on the processor front, it is only a matter of time before Apple creates its own system on a chip (SOC), bypassing suppliers in its egostructure (sic).

Bloomberg finds more proof of hacked Supermicro hardware
Despite strong denials from the likes of Apple, Amazon and Supermicro
Despite denials from Big Tech, Bloomberg is continuing to find proof that China has been sabotaging critical technology components bound for America.

Apple fanboys lose case against Google spying
Court says no one suffered damage
The High Court has blocked a bid to sue Google for allegedly unlawfully taking data from 4.4 million UK iPhone users.

Apple still has not activated secret repair kill switch
Expect it any day now
While Apple has informed its staff about a secret bit of malware it has installed in Macs which bricks computers which have not been repaired by Apple Genii, it has not got around to switching it on yet.