Enlarge / Facebook co-founder, chairman, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg departs after testifying before a combined Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, April 10, 2018, in Washington, DC. (credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees close to him, “we need to inflict pain” on […]
Enlarge (credit: adventtr / Getty) A potential partnership between Apple and Nissan foundered due to disagreements over branding, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. Apple wanted Nissan to build Apple-branded cars, while Nissan preferred to keep its own brand on the vehicles. In recent months, Apple has reportedly been looking for a partner to build […]
Enlarge / A shot from For All Mankind‘s second season. (credit: Apple) More science fiction is headed to Apple TV+, according to a new video and report. Apple has published a “first look featurette” video and related augmented reality app for its alternate-history space-program drama For All Mankind‘s second season, and the report claims a drama about […]
This is the web version of the Bull Sheet, Fortune’s no-BS daily newsletter on the markets. Sign up to receive it in your inbox here. Buongiorno. Global stocks are heading back to record territory this morning, and U.S. futures too are rebounding on another solid run of earnings from the likes of Twitter and Lyft yesterday. […]
Enlarge / The update is available on supported Macs today. (credit: Samuel Axon) Today, Apple released a small update to macOS Big Sur, numbered 11.2.1. Primarily, it fixes a problem affecting some MacBook Pro models that prevented their batteries from charging properly. It also fixed a sudo bug that could in some cases play a […]
A phone you can easily grasp with one hand? Crazy talk. [credit: Samuel Axon ] Bad news for lovers of smaller phones: The iPhone 12 mini has sold poorly compared to other phones in the iPhone 12 lineup—poorly enough that analysts wonder whether Apple will remain committed to the smaller phone design moving forward. A […]
This is the web version of the Bull Sheet, Fortune’s no-BS daily newsletter on the markets. Sign up to receive it in your inbox here. Good morning, Bull Sheeters. European stocks and U.S. futures are flat on Tuesday, putting the S&P 500’s six-day rally in jeopardy as we head into a big day of impeachment hearings […]
Enlarge / Former Apple hardware engineering leader Dan Riccio. (credit: Apple) A couple of weeks ago, Apple announced that longtime hardware engineering chief Dan Riccio will step down from his role to focus entirely on a “new project” within the company. According to yet another report at Bloomberg based on sources with knowledge of Apple’s […]
Reddit user matejamm1’s screenshot illustrating the change in iOS 14.5. [credit: u/matejamm1 ] It had long been an inescapable fact about Apple’s iOS operating system for iPhones that you couldn’t change your default apps away from those made by Apple itself. But only a few months after Apple changed course and allowed users to change the […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson/Jonathan Gitlin/Getty Images) If Apple has plans to build an electric, autonomous vehicle, it won’t be with Hyundai Motor Group. On Sunday, Bloomberg reported that “people familiar with the matter” told the publication that “Apple paused discussions with Hyundai and Kia weeks ago”. Apple’s highly secretive vehicle plans—codenamed Project Titan—have driven a […]