Snowflake received a vote of confidence Tuesday after a filing revealed that Salesforce and Berkshire Hathaway each agreed to buy $250 million of stock at its IPO price. Berkshire will also make a secondary purchase
"Although Epic portrays itself as a modern corporate Robin Hood, in reality it is a multi-billion dollar enterprise that simply wants to pay nothing for the tremendous value it derives from the App Store," Apple says in the filing.
Apple usually announces new iPhones at its headquarters in September, but this year it will host it online-only due to the coronavirus. It's expected to unveil new products on Sept. 15 but may save iPhones until later.
China launched a global data security initiative on Tuesday, outlining principles that should be followed in areas from personal information to espionage.
SMIC relies on American chipmaking equipment. If it were to be added to the Entity List, that could make it more difficult for the company to obtain the gear needed to develop its capabilities and hurt production.
A number of so-called "robotaxi" projects have popped up in the world's second-largest economy over the past two years, with the companies involved eyeing creating viable autonomous ride hailing businesses.
Tech giants have to pay a "fair amount" of taxes, a top European official said Saturday, amid an ongoing rift between the U.S. and Europe over levies on companies such as Apple, Alphabet and Amazon.
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