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Business
Former Apple lawyer sues company for discrimination, colleague who allegedly sent her death threats
A former patent attorney at Apple is suing the multinational tech company for discrimination and for failing to protect her from a colleague...
Carl Samson
Foxconn apologizes after violent protests erupt at its iPhone factory in China
Thousands of workers gathered at the Zhengzhou factory in China on Tuesday to protest poor pay and unsanitary working conditions at Foxconn...
Michelle De Pacina
Education
Student who scored in top .5 percent for national exam gets surprise gift in viral video
A video of a high school student in India who was gifted an iPhone 12 by her parents for her 18th birthday has gone viral on social media. ...
China
Chinese YouTuber creates world’s first foldable iPhone
Chinese- language YouTube channel 科技美学 (Technological Aesthetics) recently uploaded a video of an engineer using custom parts to create the...
Ryan General
Workers filmed fleeing major iPhone factory in China
Viral videos on Chinese social media apparently show workers fleeing one of the largest iPhone assembly factories in China following a repo...
Social Media
Samsung shades Apple for new ‘deep purple’ iPhone 14 Pro
Samsung recently shaded Apple in a tweet for allegedly copying its BTS-inspired Bora Purple Galaxy Z Flip4 smartphone. The official Samsun...
Rebecca Moon
Feature
Ex-Apple worker Sam Sung auctions business card from his first Apple store
Former Apple employee Sam Sung is auctioning another business card, this time from the first Apple store he ever worked at. Sung, who has ...
Entertainment
‘Jiro Dreams of Sushi’ director films mini-doc about chicken rice war between 2 Singapore hawkers
David Gelb, director of “Jiro Dreams of Sushi” and creator of “Chef’s Table,” collaborated with Apple to film a short documentary using an ...
Bryan Ke
K-pop boy group Seventeen announces collaboration with Apple for their first English-language single
Apple is set to launch their largest Korean outlet, Apple Myeongdong, in central Seoul this Saturday, which will also serve as a stage for ...
Apple shares Korean martial arts fantasy film shot on iPhone 13 Pro by ‘Oldboy’ director Park Chan-wook
“Life is But a Dream,” a South Korean martial arts fantasy short film, is the latest installment in Apple’s “Shot on iPhone” ad campaign. ...
Technology
Grindr removed from China’s app stores amid crackdown on online content
Grindr has allegedly been taken down from Apple and Android app stores in China. The country’s Cyberspace Administration announced on Jan....
Khier Casino
Apple releases special edition AirPods Pro to celebrate Year of the Tiger
Apple has released a special edition AirPods Pro with a case bearing a tiger emoji in honor of the Year of the Tiger. The Tiger AirPods Pr...
Group of Chinese students sue Apple for not including charger with iPhone 12
Five Chinese students took Apple to court after finding out the iPhones they purchased did not come with phone chargers. Samson and Goliath:...
News
Apple’s Adult Filters Block the Word ‘Asian’ in Browser Search
Tech-savvy social media users are calling out Apple for blocking any browser search containing the word “Asian” when the user turns on the i...
Apple Releases Lulu Wang’s Heartwarming Short ‘Nian’ for Chinese New Year
Filmmaker Lulu Wang shot a new short for Apple to celebrate Chinese New Year and showcase the latest iPhone’s camera. The film: According to...
Khanh Tran
Lifestyle
Louis Vuitton Teases Monogrammed Trunk for AirPods
is taking the luxury goods game to a new level with its own Apple AirPod case. The French fashion house and luxury retail company teased th...
Huawei CEO Caught Carrying an Apple iPad at the Airport
Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei is apparently a huge fan of Apple products. Zhengfei, whose company is competing with rival Apple Inc. in the tech ...
Apple Forced to Pull Hong Kong Police Tracking App From Store
Apple has recently removed a tracking app from the App Store that monitors police movement in Hong Kong after receiving criticism from China...
NextShark App
NextShark Fans Demanded a News App, So We Sacrificed Everything to Make it Happen
(Newport Beach, Ca. June 5, 2019) NextShark, the leading source of Asian American and Asian news, proudly unveils a news app available in th...
Editorial Staff
Tech
International Students Allegedly Scammed Apple Out of Almost $1 Million With Chinese ‘iPhones’
Two college students from Oregon are facing a criminal complaint from Apple after allegedly using thousands of counterfeit iPhones from Chin...
Chinese Engineer Accused of Stealing Apple’s Self-Driving Car Secrets for Rival Company in China
The FBI charged a self-driving car engineer at Apple for allegedly stealing trade secrets for a rival company based in China. Jizhong Chen, ...
Chinese Court Reportedly Bans iPhones From Being Sold in China
A court in China has reportedly granted chip maker Qualcomm an injunction against Apple, effectively halting sales and imports of most iPhon...
The #1 Paid Utility App in the App Store Allegedly Collects Your Data and Sends it to China
A popular app which supposedly stops malware on Mac computers has been found to be secretly harvesting the browser history of its users. Acc...
Taiwanese Man Complained of Autopilot Problems Before Dying in Tesla Model X Crash
A new update in the investigation of a fatal car crash involving a Tesla Model X in Mountain View, California, revealed that the vehicle was...
Asia
Toddler Playing With Mom’s iPhone Accidentally Locks It For 47 Years
A mother from Shanghai, China, had the most shocking iPhone experience after her 2-year-old son accidentally locked it for nearly half a cen...
Apple’s Latest Chinese New Year Ad Will Make You Want to Call Mom
Apple has a new ad for the Chinese New Year as it approaches on Friday, Feb. 16. However, instead of producing something festive and uplifti...
Second Incident in China Proves the iPhone X Thinks Asians Look the Same
In another bizarre case of faulty camera technology, a boy in Shanghai, China was able to unlock his mother’s phone through its facial...
Heather Johnson Yu
Chinese Woman Gets Refund Because the iPhone X Thinks All Asians Look the Same
A woman from Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China has been offered two refunds after both her iPhone X devices were unlocked by her colleague th...
Apple Admits iPhone X was Made By Overworked Student Interns at Chinese Factory
High school students assembling the iPhone X at a factory in China must endure illegal working hours or fail to graduate, according to a new...
China’s Tencent is Now Worth Over $500 Billion
Massive Chinese tech company Tencent just hit a new milestone, exceeding 3.99 trillion Hong Kong dollars ($510 billion) in market value. Ten...
Vietnamese Company Claims $150 Mask Can Hack iPhone X Face ID
Just days after the iPhone X hit stores on Nov. 3, Vietnamese cybersecurity company Bkav claims a $150 3D-printed mask bypassed the new Face...
Something is Wrong With the iPhone 8 Plus Battery in Japan and Taiwan
Two cases of batteries swelling up have been reported by iPhone 8 Plus users in Japan and Taiwan. While it may sound alarming, fans shouldn’...
Fake iPhone Xs are Already Being Sold in China For $100
Just days after Apple launched the futuristic iPhone X, a budget-friendly knock-off was quickly born in the world’s premiere source of count...
Chinese Company Crushes Apple to Become the Second Largest Smartphone Brand in the World
Huawei has become the second largest smartphone brand in the world, pushing popular brand Apple down to number three. According to the chart...
Why Apple Just Pulled 60 VPNs From the App Store in China
Apple has just become instrumental to China’s “Great Firewall” by obliterating around 60 virtual private networks (VPNs) from its Chinese Ap...
Taiwan’s Foxconn is Planning to Build a Factory in Wisconsin That Could Create Up to 25,000 Jobs
Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer for Apple, has expressed its ambition of opening a major factory in Wisconsin — its fi...