These are the breaks that come with an ongoing pandemic. Apple is reinstating its mask mandate for employees of about 100 of its brick-and-mortar retail locations throughout the U.S. in response to a national rise in cases. Although retail staff members at those locations will be required to mask up, customers will not. However, Apple […]
If people were complaining about Apple pushing its employees to return to in-person work too quickly, well, that’s off for a while. Where originally the company had stated its requirement that its Bay Area employees return to work in-person three days a week starting May 23, Apple is now delaying that requirement. The company has […]
With a steady stream of COVID-19 lockdowns in China, Apple is now apparently menacing an “action plan” to diversity its supply chain management risks out of the country. According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, China-based suppliers such Foxconn have struggled with lockdowns. In these cases, factories have either needed to stop production for a certain period […]
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic early last year, Apple has closed a number of its retail stores around the world. June 2021 marked the first time that all Apple Stores around the world were open simultaneously for the first time in 75 weeks, but now the company has once again decided to close […]
Ok, so maybe crime DOES pay… Per Symantec’s company blog, the malware known as “Flashback” that was believed to have infected hundreds of thousands of Macs may have paid out as much as US$10,000 a day to its authors. The estimate comes from Symantec, which said in a post to its official blog that the […]