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Why buy new when you can buy used and save a bundle?
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Earn some extra cash by selling your old, unwanted electronics.
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Daring Fireball's John Gruber joins us on this week's episode of The MacRumors Show to discuss Apple Intelligence and the future of the company.
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The trade war is making homebuyers brace for a spike in mortgage interest rates.
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Mortgage rates have been volatile recently as economic uncertainty whipsaws financial markets.
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The delay comes as Tesla faces plunging sales, intensifying competition, and pressure to deliver a low-cost EV.
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US District Judge Leonie Brinkema found Google guilty of violating the Sherman Antitrust Act by "willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power in the open-web display publisher ad server market and the open-web display ad exchange market." Here's a PDF of the ruling, via The Verge. It's the conclusion of a case brought by the federal government and eight states over two years ago.
Though Google competes in dozens of categories—from manufacturing its own phones to providing "big iron" data to some of the world's biggest companies—advertising is arguably its most important business. Ads keep much of the web profitable and allow Google to provide its primary search engine for free, in addition to other services like Gmail, Google Docs, YouTube, etc. According to Statista, Google reaped over 250 billion US dollars from advertising in 2024, and Google owns 80 percent of the search market worldwide.
The determination that Google is operating an illegal monopoly—the second such determination from the US DOJ in two years—could be devastating t
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Gartner said that the PC industry shipped 59 million units during the first quarter of 2025, a 4.8 percent increase from a year ago. Last week, rival IDC said that 63.2 million PCs shipped, a 4.9 percent increase.
What seems to be clear is that the PC industry "front-loaded" shipments, trying to get them inside the United States before tariffs could take effect.
"The growth in the PC market in the first quarter of 2025 was driven by the surge in shipments in two key markets, the U.S. and Japan, but for different underlying reasons," said Rishi Padhi, research principal at Gartner, in a statement. "In the U.S., the PC market experienced a surge in shipments as vendors increased inventory in anticipation of tariff announcements, resulting in 12.6 percent year-over-year growth. Despite this increase and the subsequent strong topline growth, underlying end-user demand remained cautious, even with the added boost from enterprises upgrading PCs for Windows 11."
"The market is clearly showing some level of pull-in in the first quarter this year as both vendors and end-users brace for the impact of US tariffs," said Jean Philippe Bouchard, a research vice president with IDC, last week. "In a first quarter still relatively untouched by tariffs, the entire ecosystem attempted to accelerate the pace of deliveries to avoid the first round of U.S. tariffs and expected volatility for the remainder of the year."
Tariffs imposed by the Trump administration currently sit at 20 percent, after a few days where administration statements went back and forth. In a "
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