SEOUL—Apple AAPL 1.17%increase; green up pointing triangle says it will soon introduce generative artificial intelligence to its new iPhones. Samsung 005930 0.00%increase; green up pointing triangle Electronics, Apple’s chief smartphone rival, offers clues on how the experience might go. Since January, Samsung has rolled out many of the same AI features that Apple has promised,…
Ryan’s Recycling Services is filling up and the 15-year-old owner is trying to gather more to reduce what goes to the landfill. (Darryl Murphy/CBC) Teenagers looking for their first job often lean toward fast food or big box retail stores to earn their first paycheques, but 15-year-old Ryan Easton of Mount Pearl scrapped that idea…
Updated Jan. 16, 2024 4:48 am ET Apple is offering rare discounts in China, including on its latest iPhones, in a bid to beat back growing competition in the high-end market from rivals. The tech giant is running a promotion from Thursday through Sunday in China in which it is cutting the price of iPhones…
Samsung Electronics expects its fourth-quarter operating profit to fall 35% from a year earlier, missing market expectations and dampening hopes for an earnings recovery led by its semiconductor business. The world’s largest maker of memory chips, smartphones and televisions said in a preliminary earnings forecast Tuesday that its operating profit is expected at 2.800 trillion…
JILL KOCH39, bought her first cordless vacuum because it was pink. “I didn’t look at the brand, I didn’t look at the price. I saw the color and was like, ‘I have to have it,’” said the Cincinnati-based home organization and cleaning blogger. Koch, who owns almost a dozen vacuums, says her newest cordless stick,…
Updated Dec. 5, 2023 4:45 pm ET Procter & Gamble said it was booking a $1.3 billion charge on its Gillette business, adjusting the value of a shaving giant that it took over nearly two decades ago. P&G bought Gillette for stock initially valued at $54 billion in 2005, making it a dominant player in…
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Updated Nov. 5, 2023 12:01 am ET HONG KONG—Leading Western brands in China are feeling the pinch from the country’s consumer slump. From luxury cosmetics firm Estee Lauder to apparel maker Canada Goose and iPhone seller Applecompanies are reporting weak results, with some saying customers aren’t reopening their wallets almost a year after Covid-related isolation…
Updated Nov. 1, 2023 12:02 am ET The global semiconductor industry is bottoming out, executives say, signaling a rebound in some areas of technology and providing relief for the U.S. government, which is spending billions on expanding chip production. In recent weeks, executives at Intel, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and Samsung Electronics have expressed confidence…
