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Michael Liedtke

Michael Liedtke

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Waymo, formerly Google’s self-driving car project, is coming to Miami—and you’ll be able to ride in a driverless Jaguar

Testing begins next year.

05.12.2024 10

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Even with Biden’s antitrust watchdogs likely headed out, the idea of taking on Big Tech ‘still has legs to it’

Still, some deals that got torpedoed by the Biden administration could find new life with Trump in command.

17.11.2024 30

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Google Maps just got a fresh injection of AI features—here’s what you can do now

“We are entering a new era of maps,” Google Maps general manager Miriam Daniel said.

31.10.2024 30

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Want employees to embrace AI? A Slack exec says knowing the 5 AI personalities is key

Want employees to embrace AI? A Slack exec says knowing the 5 AI personalities is key

21.10.2024 8

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Google’s new voice-activated AI search will allow people to use Lens to ask questions about video and photos

Now, people will be able to use Lens to ask a question in English about something they are viewing through a camera lens — as if they were talking...

04.10.2024 10

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

ESPN returns to DirecTV with a new Disney deal after blackout

DirecTV announced Saturday it had reached a deal with Walt Disney Co. that will restore ESPN and ABC-owned stations to its service after a nearly...

14.09.2024 4

SFGate

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Federal judge gives DOJ deadline to decide Google’s antitrust punishment

How will Google be punished for monopolizing the search market? We'll find out very soon.

07.09.2024 5

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Meet Mike Lynch, the British billionaire tycoon who’s gone missing after his yacht sunk in Italy

Lynch struck gold in 2011 when he sold Autonomy, a software maker he founded in 1996, to Hewlett-Packard for $11 billion.

20.08.2024 10

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Samsung’s new phones, premium watch, and ring signal the company is going all-in on AI, giving Apple a run for its money

Samsung also echoed Apple's privacy pledge to corral any personal information that must be processed off a device in a digital fortress.

10.07.2024 4

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

GM brings in Xbox engineer as CEO to steer beleaguered Cruise robotaxi service

Marc Whitten, one of the key engineers behind the Xbox video game console, will take over as Cruise's chief executive.

26.06.2024 10

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Elizabeth Holmes watches from a Texas prison as appeal of her Theranos fraud conviction begins in federal court

The hearing held in the San Francisco appeals court came nearly 2 1/2 years after a jury convicted Holmes for orchestrating a blood-testing...

12.06.2024 20

Fortune

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Apple is poised to unveil embedded AI at its ‘most important event… in over a decade’

Apple's next generation of software is expected to be packed with an array of AI features likely to make its often-bumbling virtual assistant Siri...

10.06.2024 20

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Netflix’s ‘secret sauce’ tailors summaries, trailers to fit different tastes and even tries to divine viewers’ moods at any given time

“What they have been doing is pretty ingenious and very, very strategic.”

08.06.2024 20

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Top Apple exec acknowledges court-ordered makeover of iPhone app store payment system hasn’t done much to increase competition

After more than two years of ultimately unsuccessful attempts to overturn the order to allow alternative payment links within apps, Apple in January...

23.05.2024 60

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Google will get rid of billions of files as part of settlement in case involving allegations about Chrome's incognito mode

The settlement also imposes other controls designed to limit Google's collection of personal information.

02.04.2024 40

Fortune

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Google is quietly deleting billions of records from Chrome users in ‘incognito’ mode, claiming it never used the data

Lawyers representing Chrome users valued the settlement at $4.75 billion to $7.8 billion, relying on calculations based primarily on potential ad...

02.04.2024 40

Fortune

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A 20-year email revolution that began on April Fool’s Day: A look back at the Gmail era

“That was part of the charm, making a product that people won't believe is real," former Google engineer Paul Buchheit said.

31.03.2024 40

Fortune

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Reddit stock soars 48% in first day of trading as traders love ‘front page of the internet’

Seconds after it began trading on the New York Stock Exchange, Reddit's value soared close to $9 billion.

22.03.2024 30

Fortune

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Yale antitrust scholar likens Apple case to epic Microsoft battle: ‘It’s a really big deal to go up and punch someone who is acting like a bully and pretending not to be a bully’

Antitrust researcher Dina Srinavasan, a Yale University fellow, said the government is picking a "tremendous fight” with what was the world's most...

22.03.2024 20

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Reddit is taking 20 years of posts and over $700 million of cumulative losses to Wall Street after pricing IPO at $34 per share

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is one of the company’s biggest shareholders, ranking above early invesotrs Peter Thiel, Jared Leto and Snoop Dogg.

21.03.2024 10

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Software founder began lying to HP execs at the very first meeting—'The scene of an $11 billion fraud,' prosecutors said

British tech star Mike Lynch was once hailed as a visionary but prosecutors say he defrauded HP.

19.03.2024 20

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Hewlett Packard’s disastrous acquisition of Autonomy heads to trial as court explores whether the deal was an illegal rip-off or a case of botched management

The alleged villains in the trial are former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch, who once was lionized as shining example of British ingenuity, and Stephen...

18.03.2024 8

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Apple is paying $490 million to settle claims that Tim Cook misled investors about iPhone sales in China

Cook signaled that the new iPhones were off to a good start during an investor conference call in early November 2018.

15.03.2024 20

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Apple opens small cracks in iPhone’s digital fortress to face regulatory clampdown in Europe—and warns it will open new avenues for hackers

People in Europe can download iPhone apps from stores that aren't operated by Apple and are getting alternative ways to pay for in-app transactions.

07.03.2024 20

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Sam Altman, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger blown away by AI boom: 'It’s just magic the way these tiny chips are enabling the modern economic cycle'

“There's sort of a space race going on," Gelsinger said. “The overall demand (for AI chips) appears to be insatiable for several years into the...

22.02.2024 8

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Ex-Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer on AI, remote work and her new app: 'I think it is really hard to join an organization that is fully remote because that notion of culture gets lost'

The former Googler became CEO of Yahoo in an unsuccessful effort to turn around the fading internet pioneer, but she did triple its stock price.

21.02.2024 30

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Cisco Systems announces plan to purge 4,000 workers in second round of layoffs in two years

Cisco is the latest tech company to announce that it will shed employees as CEOs focus on tightening costs.

15.02.2024 10

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Google banishes Bard chatbot for AI rebrand as Gemini while Sundar Pichai and Satya Nadella each insist theirs is best

Google CEO Pichai predicts Gemini will be able to outthink the smartest people, but Microsoft CEO Nadella said “We have the best model, today even."

09.02.2024 10

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Cruise faces another lashing from California judge who compares it to naughty 1950's TV character Eddie Haskell

The case accuses Cruise of trying to conceal its excruciating role in an incident that resulted in the suspension of its California license.

07.02.2024 50

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Tim Cook wants to make 'spatial computing' a household term with the premiere of Apple's new Vision Pro headset

Apple is far from the only prominent technology company working on spatial computing products.

03.02.2024 30

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Apple will open iPhone to other app stores and lower fees in Europe

Apple for the first time will allow iPhone users in Europe to use app stores other than the company-operated one that comes installed on the mobile...

26.01.2024 5

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

GM is facing a Justice Department investigation into the gruesome Cruise robotaxi collision that critically injured a pedestrian in San Francisco

incident resulted in Cruise's license to operate its driverless fleet in California being suspended by regulators and triggered a purge of its...

26.01.2024 7

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Samsung sees chance to leapfrog Apple with AI enhancements to Galaxy smartphones that will 'reshape the technology landscape'

Apple is behind Samsung when it comes to making smartphones smarter with AI, Forrester Research analyst Thomas Husson said.

18.01.2024 5

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Apple will turn off blood-oxygen feature on 2 premium watches as part of patent fight

If Apple had opted to stop selling the Series 9 and Ultra 2 in the U.S., it threatened to put a small dent in the company’s annual sales of $383...

18.01.2024 30

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Retailers step up their shipping wars to compete with ultra-cheap China outfits—and consumers are reaping the spoils

Walmart and Target are investing money in fulfillment centers to close the delivery gap with Amazon, which is trying to ward off China-based rivals...

19.12.2023 10

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Google to pay $700M to settle state antitrust claims

The disclosure follows Google's loss to Epic Games in a court case over the same issue.

19.12.2023 6

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Google loses app store antitrust case to Epic Games

A federal court jury has decided that Google’s Android app store has been protected by anticompetitive barriers.

12.12.2023 20

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Google antitrust battle with Fortnite-maker Epic Games over Play Store’s 15-30%  commissions is heading to the jury to decide

The jury's verdict in the case will likely hinge on how the smartphone app market is defined.

11.12.2023 20

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Google's Gemini AI launches to the public, with search engine on the way: 'We made a ton of progress in what’s called factuality'

“This is a significant milestone in the development of AI, and the start of a new era for us at Google,” says Demis Hassabis, CEO of the AI...

07.12.2023 8

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

GM’s Mary Barra set on ‘righting the ship’ at Cruise as it faces $1.5m fine for alleged coverup of robotaxi accident that got it booted from California

Cruise has been ordered to appear at a Feb. 6 hearing to determine whether the robotaxi service misled regulators about what happened after one of its...

05.12.2023 10

Fortune

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