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Mark Zuckerberg's worldwide Facebook apology tour hits a snag in the EU

Mark Zuckerberg’s worldwide Facebook apology tour hits a snag in the EU

“How many times can you say you’re sorry before we stop caring?” Ian Sherr and Erin Carson report for CNET. “If Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s globe-trotting apology tour over privacy violations, election meddling and allowing hate speech to flourish on Facebook is any sign, the answer is not that many.”

“Zuckerberg said he was sorry yet again on Tuesday when he admitted to the…

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Nearly 1 in 4 active smartphones is an Apple iPhone

iPhone 17 Each of the world’s eight leading smartphone OEMs had an active installed base exceeding 200 million devices in 2025 and nearly one in four active smartphones is an Apple iPhone. Global installed base of active smartphones grew 2% in 2025, driven by replacement cycles for new devices increasing to nearly four years and a growing share of second-life devices in use, according to…

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iPhone 16 fear prompts Google to move up Pixel phone launch

New leaked image shows iPhone 16 Pro in White, Titanium, and Deep Black colors (image: Sonny Dickson via X) Despite debuting its “copied from Apple” Pixel smartphones eight years ago, according to Statista Consumer Insights, Google remains a niche player in the smartphone market to this day, with less than 5% of cellphone users willing to pay for the pleasure of being tracked by Google and sold…

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Apple iPhone poised to take No.1 in annual global smartphone shipments for first time ever

According to preliminary figures from Counterpoint Research’s latest Global Smartphone Shipment Forecast, 2023 shipments are forecast to decline 6% to 1.15 billion units, the lowest in a decade. Apple’s iPhone is the best-positioned among key OEMs and could become No.1 brand in annual global smartphone shipments for first time ever. Apple’s iPhone 14 Asia is one of the major hurdles to positive…

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Beleaguered Samsung's Q2 profit craters 96%

Beleaguered Samsung Electronics, peddler of pretend iPhones, reported a disastrous 96% plunge in second-quarter operating profit on Friday as the South Korean dishwasher maker estimated its operating profit fell to 600 billion won ($459 million) in April to June, from 14.1 trillion won a year earlier in a brief preliminary earnings statement. Samsung’s Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong was sentenced to…

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Android users upgrading to Apple iPhone at 5-year high

Since 2020, those who formerly settled for Android phones are accounting for an increased percentage of buyers of real iPhones. iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max CIRP looked at the last nine years of iPhone purchase data, including the phone that iPhone buyers owned immediately before their new iPhone purchase. In the 12 months ending in March 2023, 15% of iPhone buyers reported upgrading from…

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Apple iPhone dominates smartphone market with 85% profit share

Apple’s iconic iPhone set a new all-time 85% profit share high from global smartphone sales in 2022, navigating a challenging year for the industry far better than Android phone peddlers. Apple’s iPhone 14 series (left to right: flagship iPhone 14 Pro Max, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14) Vlad Savov for Bloomberg News: The Cupertino, California-based tech giant collected 85% of…

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Beleaguered Samsung's quarterly profit plunges to 8-year low

Beleaguered Samsung’s quarterly profit plunges to 8-year low

Beleaguered Samsung on Friday revealed its quarterly profit tumbled by two-thirds to an eight-year low on weak demand for its iPhone knockoffs coupled with a weakening global economy negatively affecting Samsung’s memory chip prices. Samsung’s Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for bribery in January 2021 Joyce Lee and Heekyong Yang for Reuters: Samsung’s profits are…

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