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IPhone manufacturers’ slowing sales are a bad omen for Apple

Bloomberg Investors hunting for clues to the iPhone X’s reception can take a deeper look at its main manufacturing partners. And the latest doesn’t look good. Apple Inc.’s five largest device assemblers reported a sharp slowdown after peaking at the end of last year, suggesting demand for the high-end device may have faded just a quarter after its release. While ...

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Google takes aim at privacy law after Facebook lobbying failed

Bloomberg Alphabet Inc. is pushing efforts to roll back the most comprehensive biometric privacy law in the US, even as the company and its peers face heightened scrutiny after the unauthorised sharing of data at Facebook Inc. While Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg were publicly apologising this month for failing to protect users’ information, Google’s lobbyists were drafting measures to ...

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AT&T defends Time Warner deal’s synergies

Bloomberg AT&T Inc. attacked the US government expert who disputes the company’s claim that its takeover of Time Warner Inc. would lead to $2.5 billion in annual cost savings, forcing him to admit on the witness stand that such a deal would probably result in efficiencies. Rob Walters, a lawyer for AT&T, tried to undermine the Justice Department’s expert, Ronald ...

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