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CHARLOTTE – Charlotte-based Honeywell International Inc. has inked a deal to acquire Florida-based Carrier Global Corporation’s Global Access Solutions business for an all-cash deal of $4.95 billion. With the acquisition, Honeywell will add three Access Solutions brands to its portfolio, namely, LenelS2, Onity and Supra, its cloud-based electronic real estate lockboxes provides mobile credentials and

CARY – Epic Games CEO, founder and majority owner Tim Sweeney took to Twitter to savor Epic’s antitrust victory over Google in federal court on Monday. He also personally thanked the jurors in the case. And Cary-based Epic declared the jury’s unanimous decision a “victory for all app developers and consumers.” Epic Games graphic Let’s

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CARY – Jurors in the Epic Games-Google antitrust trial over the banning of Epic’s big hit Fortnite from the Google app store were read instructions for handling their role in the case on Monday. If you want a better understanding of the lawsuit and what’s at stake in the trial after Epic and Google failed

By Tim Hardwick, MacRumors Meta is rolling out end-to-end encryption for personal messages and calls on Messenger and Facebook, finally delivering on a pledge it committed to some time ago. Messenger encryption originally arrived in 2016 in the form of “secret conversations,” and plans to extend the platform’s cryptographic features have been floated ever since. For

RALEIGH – A new study focused on wearable health monitors underscores an entrenched problem in the development of new health technologies – namely, that a failure to understand race means the way these devices are developed and tested can exacerbate existing racial health inequities. “This is a case study that focuses on one specific health

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By Brian Fung, CNN Microsoft’s battle to defend its acquisition of video game publisher Activision Blizzard is not yet over. The US government said Wednesday that a federal appeals court should block Microsoft’s recent purchase of Activision because a lower-court judge was too deferential to Microsoft’s promises about the future of “Call of Duty,” a

By Tim Hardwick, MacRumors Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users by tracking push notifications that move through Google’s and Apple’s servers, a US senator warned on Wednesday (via Reuters). In a letter to the Department of Justice, Senator Ron Wyden said foreign officials were demanding the data from the tech giants to track smartphones. The traffic

BELGRADE, Serbia — Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak will be getting a Serbian passport, Serbia’s president announced Wednesday. The convivial Wozniak known as “Woz,” who teamed up with the late Steve Jobs to found Apple in 1976, arrived in Serbia ahead of Dec. 17 parliamentary and local elections, in an apparent boost for President Aleksandar