Category: Intelligent Devices

Human + Machine partnerships are becoming even more critical and seeing greater investment and adoption as COVID-19 forces companies to innovate and digitally transform businesses faster to stay profitable and meet customers where they are.
HP delivered a strong beat on the top and bottom line fueled by a big jump in consumer notebook revenue and strength across the portfolio.
For Q2, Dell was able to deliver above expectations on revenue and earnings on strength from its recurring revenue, VMware and PC.
Amazon is adding an expanded hub and spoke model that is enabling more job creation in markets outside the company's headquarters.
Apple removes Fortnite, Epic Games’ popular battle royale game, from its App Store, and blocks “rival” game streaming platforms from iOS. Fortnite pretty much immediately filed suit, but there’s much more to unpack in this quest for a piece of the mobile game revenue pie. Note that last year 2.5 billion people played mobile games, propelling mobile game revenues to amount to nearly 75% of all in-app spending. 30% of that revenue is what Apple (and Google) are fighting to capture, at the expense, some would argue, of game developers.
The 2021 Ford Bronco exceeds expectations with 150,000 preorders and comes with new tech that includes next-generation infotainment system and a digital trail mapping feature that lets owners plan, record and share their experiences via an app.
The Mercedes-Benz partnership with NVIDIA is an example of automotive industry innovation featuring development that begins in the data center and operating systems that are developed with AI from end to end, modernizing everything about the automotive driving, and ownership experience.
Qualcomm’s Quick Charge was already the number one fast-charging solution in mobile, with over 1,000 unique accessories, over 250 mobile devices, and healthy expansion into adjacent technology categories like tablets, speakers, and drones. By leaning more on USB-PD, Qualcomm appears to be looking more to enable the entire industry than unique OEMs.
Companies like Cisco, Siemens, Salesforce, and HPE are among the many tech leaders driving a return to work, with safety of workers and the workplace top of mind. We explore some of those innovations in this new episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, along with key ways the world of work will need to transform moving forward.
Unpacking the scrutiny on Apple’s App Store and Apple Pay business practices that have caught the ire of regulators, lawmakers, and other tech companies on both sides of the Atlantic. Of note, a third vulnerability for Apple, and an angle that US courts will be perhaps more eager to tackle than the previous two, is whether or not Apple’s business practices can be shown to have led to higher prices and fewer choices for consumers. This is a core litmus test for antitrust cases in the US, and this point should have Apple attorneys at least a little worried.
Fears about Google’s use of Fitbit data to potentially gain an unfair advertising advantage cause EU regulators to take a closer look at the potential anticompetitive effects of the deal. I don’t see much cause for alarm here, and here’s why.
Microsoft reported its first full quarter since the Covid-19 pandemic and the company overall delivered a solid performance once again.

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