Google and Apple now threatened by the US antitrust laws helped build their technology empires

Google and Apple now threatened by the US antitrust laws helped build their technology empires

FILE – Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, left, and president and CEO Steve Ballmer speak at a news conference on April 3, 2000 in Redmond, Wash. The U.S. Justice Department’s double-barreled antitrust attack on Google’s dominant search and Apple’s trendsetting iPhone is reviving memories of another epic battle that hobbled Microsoft before it roared back to […]

Congo questions Apple over knowledge of conflict minerals in its supply chain

Congo questions Apple over knowledge of conflict minerals in its supply chain

FILE – A Congolese miner sifts through ground rocks to separate out the cassiterite, the main ore that’s processed into tin, in the town of Nyabibwe, eastern Congo, Aug. 16, 2012. Congo’s government is questioning Apple about the tech company’s knowledge of “blood minerals” from a conflict zone in the African country that could be […]