The settlement of the antitrust class action also includes changes to App Store rules that prevented developers from billing customers directly.
The tech giant is slowing plans to move production to Vietnam as border controls tighten to contain new variants of coronavirus outbreaks.
The company is partnering with Goldman Sachs to let users pay for purchases in installments and will rival similar services offered by Affirm and PayPal.
Microsoft will integrate its Teams chat software directly into the OS and is adding videoconferencing features.
A witness at a Senate hearing compared the companies' control over their platforms to the "behavior of the robber barons."
Chip suppliers, which trimmed down chip production for autos and in turn stepped up supplies to consumer electronics, are now pressured from all quarters.
The electronics manufacturer supplies big-name tech companies such as Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft.
The iPhone fetched the company $65.60 billion in sales by virtue of 17.23% year-over-year growth.
The Taiwanese chipmaker's advanced semiconductor fabrication campus could generate 1,900 new jobs over the next five years.
The company's decision to put Taiwan's Pegatron on probation underscores the “challenge facing Apple as it seeks to address abuses in its supply chain."
Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple "have become the kinds of monopolies we last saw in the era of oil barons and railroad tycoons."
Italy’s competition authority is looking into the companies’ cloud storage services after complaints about allegedly unfair commercial practices.
