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Apple CEO Tim Cook really cares about the company’s professional users — even though Apple’s Mac desktop computers are overdue for updates. “You will see us do more in the pro area,” Cook said Tuesday during Apple’s shareholder meeting in Cupertino, California. “The pro area is very important to us. The creative area is very …

New Federal Communications Commission’s Chairman Ajit Pai is hitting the pause button on internet privacy regulations put in place during the Obama administration, which wireless and broadband companies have complained are unfair. The rules, approved by the FCC in October, were supposed to protect consumers’ sensitive personal information online. They have been controversial because they establish stricter requirements for broadband …

The Republican-led Federal Communications Commission still hasn’t said if it will dismantle the controversial net neutrality regulations, but it’s already picking apart the rules to make them less potent. On Thursday, the agency voted 2-1 along party lines to suspend the net neutrality transparency requirement for broadband providers with fewer than 250,000 customers. Under the previous administration’s policy such exemptions …

This may be the first time the word “sexting” has been included in an SEC filing. Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, has released its IPO filing, and included that tidbit about how it was first dismissed as an app for sending nudes. There’s plenty of other juicy information Snapchat shared about its business as the 5-year-old company prepares to …

It’s been a year since Apple fought the FBI over data privacy, and we’ve barely heard a peep from either side on the issue. So everything’s fine, right? Uh, no. The FBI’s attempt to force Apple to unlock an iPhone used by a terrorist set up a grand legal battle between security and privacy. On one side is a massive …

Ajit Pai, the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, doesn’t let a little thing like a hurricane stop him from his obligations. When the rest of the East Coast was taking cover from Hurricane Sandy in 2012, then-FCC Commissioner Pai was sitting in his kitchen at his home in northern Virginia, delivering a keynote speech via video conference to …

Six Democrats in the Senate say the Trump administration will have a major fight on its hands if Republicans try to dismantle net neutrality protections. At a press conference Tuesday, Ed Markey of Massachusetts led a group of senators that included Charles Schumer of New York, Ron Wyden of Oregon, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Al Franken of Minnesota and Patrick …

There’s a new sheriff in town at the Federal Communications Commission and he just gave AT&T and Verizon a big pass. The FCC said Friday it would end its inquiry into the companies’ so-called zero-rating offers that allow customers to watch video from certain applications from their mobile devices without it counting against their monthly data caps. AT&T lets its …

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson is in a good mood thanks to President Donald Trump. Speaking on a conference call with analysts, Stephenson shared his impressions of the new president after meeting with him earlier this month. “I was impressed,” he said. “I was meeting with a CEO.” He went on to say that Trump was focused on reforming corporate taxes …

Net neutrality may be enjoying its final days after President Donald Trump‘s latest appointment. The president on Monday named FCC commissioner Ajit Pai to head the agency, which in 2015 adopted rules to preserve net neutrality. Pai, who replaces outgoing Chairman Tom Wheeler, a staunch defender of net neutrality, has already expressed a desire to dismantle those rules. “During the …