Goldman Sachs is considering exiting its partnership with Apple, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing sources familiar with the matter. The iPhone-maker and Goldman Sachs started rolling out a virtual credit card in 2019. The bank is in talks with American Express to take over its Apple credit card and other ventures with the tech giant, the report added. Goldman Sachs and the iPhone-maker started rolling out …
Read More »Apple will permanently delete photos in July — how to keep yours safe
A picture is worth a thousand words — as long as it doesn’t get deleted. Apple announced it will permanently do away with the My Photo Stream album next month. The feature automatically stores pictures taken in the last 30 days. Due to the impending shutdown, My Photo Stream stopped uploading snaps on June 26 — and everything in the …
Read More »Microsoft works slam CEO Satya Nadella’s ‘landmark’ year claim
Some angry Microsoft employees reportedly blasted their boss Satya Nadella on Thursday after he shared a message touting a “landmark year” at the tech giant — even as executives withheld raises, announced 10,000 layoffs in January and scramble to salvage a $69 billion deal to buy Activision Blizzard. Nadella lauded the company’s accomplishments in a missive shared on Microsoft’s internal …
Read More »Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg fight may happen in Colosseum
For billionaires about to tussle, we salute you! Rome’s famous Colosseum — the site of of gladiator battles and Christians being tossed to lions — may serve as the arena for the much-hyped “cage match” between moguls Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. Italy’s minister of culture Gennaro Sangiuliano contacted Zuckerberg about the possibility of holding the bout at the iconic …
Read More »AI teddy bears are here
In the not-so-distant future, you could walk in on a teddy bear reading a bedtime story to your child. And it wouldn’t be just any story — it’d be a saga tailored to everything the toy knows about your child, including likes, dislikes and even their deepest secrets. In the 1980s and ’90s, Teddy Ruxpin and Furbys were creepy, but …
Read More »Apple hits $3 trillion in market value as new gadget releases loom
Apple’s market value crossed the $3 trillion mark in early Friday trading as investors look ahead to the highly-scrutinized releases like the iPhone 15 and the Vision Pro mixed-reality headset. The California-based tech giant’s stock hovered at $191.52 per share after the opening bell Friday after closing at a record high in each of its previous two trading sessions. Apple’s …
Read More »Amazon poaching FTC officials ahead of antitrust lawsuit
Amazon is poaching a slew of staffers from the Federal Trade Commission as it gears up for an epic antitrust battle with the US agency, sources told On The Money. The Seattle-based web giant – which most is facing accusations it’s been strong-arming third-party sellers into using its logistics network – has already hired around a dozen former FTC officials, …
Read More »Joonko seemingly lied about working with American Express, PayPal
Joonko, the DEI-focused tech startup whose founder is accused of duping investors, appears to have lied about working with several US corporate icons — even as it raised tens of millions of dollars to fuel its expansion. As of Thursday, The Post has learned of at least four major companies — American Express, PayPal, Accenture and Atlassian — that were …
Read More »Advertisers demand billions in refunds from YouTube over skippable ads
YouTube advertisers demanded refunds from the Google-owned video sharing service after a study found viewers were allowed to entirely avoid commercials that play imperceptibly on third-party sites, violating the company’s own terms of service. Adalytics, a company that analyzes digital ads, issued a report accusing Google of “misleading” Fortune 500 companies, small businesses and the US government about TrueView, the …
Read More »Elon Musk’s dad shares photo amid ‘dwarf adult human’ AI image
The father of tech titan Elon Musk offered up a rare image of his son when he was a kid after an AI-generated photo of the future Tesla mogul made him look like a “dwarf adult human.” Earlier this month, the Twitter parody account “Not Jerome Powell” posted a photo showing a brown-eyed boy with Musk’s recognizable stern face dressed …
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