Tag: Donald Trump

April 4, 2022

When former US President Donald Trump launched a new social media platform in February, the app had a buggy rollout but still topped Apple’s charts for free apps during the week of its release. Some people who downloaded the app […]

August 28, 2020

TikTok is in trouble. Over the course of less than a day, the company lost its CEO and gained a surprising new suitor. The breakout social app could be within days of making a deal to sell itself to an […]

January 15, 2020

US president Donald Trump and Chinese vice premier Liu He are due to sign a US-China trade deal later this morning that formally eliminates the threat of tariffs being applied to iPhones imported into the US. The planned 15% tariffs, […]

October 1, 2019

President Trump appears to be thrilled about Apple’s declaration that it will build the Mac Pro in the US and not China, but that hasn’t stopped his administration slapping the Cupertino firm with tariffs on some components. Apple announced last […]

July 23, 2019

President Donald Trump on Monday met with executives of seven top US tech companies to discuss “a range of economic issues,” including national security restrictions against sales to Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei. Trump sat down with leaders from Google, Cisco, […]

July 3, 2019

The Commerce Department is apparently still treating Huawei as blacklisted despite President Donald Trump saying he’d ease limitations on companies selling equipment to the Chinese telecom. A senior official emailed enforcement staff on Monday to assert that the company remains […]

June 14, 2019

Apple CEO Tim Cook met with Donald Trump yesterday to discuss trade, US investment, immigration and privacy. The meeting was initially revealed by the president’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, and confirmed by a White House spokesperson … Few details are available […]

May 15, 2019

The U.S. government is already prohibited from using Huawei’s telecommunications equipment. Soon, the same might be true for U.S. companies. According to a Reuters report Wednesday, president Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order that would bar U.S. […]

April 15, 2019

The US has reiterated its desire to be the global leader in the development deployment 5G networks with the announcement of a new spectrum auction, public funding, and government assurances. President Donald Trump has considered nationalising the country’s 5G infrastructure […]

February 22, 2019

Donald Trump is not a patient man. The president this week urged wireless carriers to deploy 5G and 6G networks “as soon as possible.” Except, those technologies don’t actually exist yet. Yes, Verizon and AT&T launched preliminary 5G services late […]