Wayne Ma
Technology Reporter at The Information
I'm a technology reporter @theinformation, formerly with The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires for 10 years in Singapore, Beijing and Hong Kong.
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2 weeks ago |
theinformation.com | Wayne Ma
Last June, at Apple’s annual developers conference, the company offered a dazzling demonstration of how artificial intelligence could supercharge Siri, the iPhone’s virtual assistant. But behind the scenes and in the months that followed, the Siri team couldn’t make up its mind about the basic technology needed to make it all work.
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2 weeks ago |
theinformation.com | Wayne Ma
Source: The InformationShares in Apple fell more than 9% on Thursday after the U.S. government announced sweeping new tariffs on countries including China, Vietnam and India, where Apple makes its products. It marked Apple’s largest single-day share price drop since March 2020, when the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic triggered fears of a global economic slowdown and weakened consumer spending.
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1 month ago |
theinformation.com | Wayne Ma
Source: CNBCThe co-CEO of Samsung Electronics died Tuesday of a heart attack, multiple media outlets including CNBC reported. Han Jong-Hee, 63, was vice chairman and initially sole CEO of the consumer-electronics giant beginning in 2022. He spent three decades at Samsung and oversaw businesses ranging from home appliances and TVs to smartphones. Samsung appointed a co-CEO, Jun Young-Huyn, in November. The company told CNBC that Jun will now become sole CEO.
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1 month ago |
theinformation.com | Wayne Ma
Last year, Apple CEO Tim Cook had questions about several pricey movie deals executives of Apple TV+, the company’s video-streaming service, had been striking, including for “Argylle,” a spy action-comedy starring Henry Cavill and Dua Lipa. The movie, which cost $200 million to produce, hadn’t found much of an audience or generated more subscribers for the service, Cook told his colleagues, according to a former Apple TV+ employee.
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1 month ago |
theinformation.com | Wayne Ma
Source: The InformationFoxconn, the Taiwanese manufacturer that makes most of the world’s iPhones, said its net profit in the fourth quarter of 2024 fell 13% year on year. It was the first decline in Foxconn’s quarterly earnings since the second quarter of 2023, when net profit slipped 0.9%. The decline in Foxconn’s fourth-quarter earnings to around $77 billion comes amid slowing sales of the iPhone, which fell about 1% on year in the quarter ending Dec.
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Apple’s decision to delay new AI features in Siri came after years of dysfunction and clashes between the AI/ML and software engineering groups. Many blame Siri's poor leadership for its slow progress. Check out my latest for @theinformation https://t.co/8t0pxMsf2c
Apple TV+, known for its prestige TV and movies, is losing more than $1 billion a year even as executives try to rein in its spending. The video-streaming service had around 45 million subscribers as of last year. Check out my latest for @theinformation https://t.co/UQX8xaoM7b
Apple's in-house modem in the iPhone 16e is part of larger a plan to rid itself of Qualcomm. But it's also the culmination of years of petty snubs and feuds between the companies' top executives over patent fees. Check out my latest for @theinformation https://t.co/477mOAdrfj