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Sales of ‘services’ help Apple beat earnings forecasts
San Francisco (United States) (AFP) - Apple on Thursday reported profit of $27. 5 billion in the recently ended quarter,...
Amazon shares surge as AI boom drives cloud growth
San Francisco (United States) (AFP) - Amazon's share price skyrocketed by more than ten percent on Thursday after the online...
Samsung posts 32% profit rise on-year in third quarter
Seoul (AFP) - South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics posted on Thursday a 32 percent rise in profits on-year for...
Google parent Alphabet posts first $100 bn quarter as AI fuels growth
San Francisco (United States) (AFP) - Google parent Alphabet reported its first-ever $100 billion quarterly revenue on Wednesday, powered by...
Microsoft holds 27% of OpenAI in revamped partnership
San Francisco (United States) (AFP) - Microsoft and OpenAI announced Tuesday a sweeping overhaul of their landmark artificial intelligence (AI)...
Uber partners with Nvidia to deploy 100,000 robotaxis
San Francisco (United States) (AFP) - Uber and Nvidia on Tuesday announced an alliance to deploy 100,000 robotaxis starting in...
Musk launches Grokipedia to rival ‘left-biased’ Wikipedia
New York (AFP) - Elon Musk's company xAI has launched a website called Grokipedia to compete with online encyclopedia Wikipedia,...
China vows massive high-tech sector development in next decade
Beijing (AFP) - China will develop its high-tech sector on a massive scale in the next decade, top officials vowed...
Alaska Airlines resumes flights after IT outage
San Francisco (United States) (AFP) - Alaska Airlines resumed operations on Thursday after a tech outage that suspended all of...
Alaska Airlines grounds entire fleet over IT outage
San Francisco (United States) (AFP) - Alaska Airlines said Thursday it had temporarily suspended all flights due to a tech...
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