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Michael Liedtke

Michael Liedtke

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Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference opens as tech giant reels from AI missteps and Trump’s trade war

Apple faces nagging questions about whether the nearly 50-year-old company has lost some of the mystique and innovative drive that turned it into a...

09.06.2025 10

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

The Like button almost didn’t make it onto Facebook because Zuckerberg hated it so much

It took Facebook nearly two years to overcome the staunch resistance by CEO Mark Zuckerberg before finally introducing the symbol on its service on...

16.05.2025 10

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

The Justice Department says a fitting punishment for Google’s search monopoly would be ordering the tech giant to divest from its ad business

Google, unsurprisingly, plans to oppose the government's proposal.

06.05.2025 3

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

‘Will we abandon the search market and surrender them to control of the monopolists?’ The Justice Department says Google’s ‘illegal conduct has created an economic goliath’

"Gen AI is Google's next evolution to keep their vicious cycle spinning," the DOJ's lawyer said.

21.04.2025 2

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Google begins court hearing about how it should be penalized for operating an illegal search monopoly—and a break-up is on the table

Google intends to file an appeal of Mehta's ruling from last year that branded its search engine as an illegal monopoly but can't do so until the...

21.04.2025 10

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Bill Gates offers to let anyone download the first operating system he and Paul Allen wrote 50 years ago: ‘That code remains the coolest I’ve ever written’

The code would go on to provide the foundation for a business that would make personal computers a household staple.

03.04.2025 20

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Uber and Waymo launch driverless ride service in Austin

Waymo, so far, has avoided a major traffic accident or other safety problems that might give regulators second thoughts about allowing its robotaxis...

04.03.2025 8

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Apple shareholders expected to reject proposal to scrap corporate workforce diversity programs

The proposal drafted by the conservative think tank National Center for Public Policy Research urges Apple to follow other high-profile...

25.02.2025 10

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Google scraps diversity hiring goals in the face of Trump’s new anti-DEI government contractor rules

Meta jettisoned its DEI program last month, shortly before the inauguration, while Amazon halted some of its DEI programs in December following...

06.02.2025 40

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Indonesia keeps its iPhone 16 sales ban even after Apple pledges $1 billion investment

Indonesia prohibited the sale of the iPhone 16 over Apple's failure to meet local regulations requiring that 40% of phones be made from local parts.

08.01.2025 10

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

Flying taxis are ‘just a few steps from the finish line’

CEO of Joby Aviation, JoeBen Bevirt is getting closer to turning his boyhood flights of fancy into a dream come true.

08.01.2025 10

Fortune

Michael Liedtke

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 5

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 10

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 20

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 2

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 4

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 2

SFGate

Michael Liedtke

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 4

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 8

Fortune

Michael Liedtke