Samsung Electronics opens world’s biggest mobile store in Bengaluru, South India

With India being the second biggest smartphone market in the world, Samsung Electronics’ move underscores its strategy of extending its market lead over its peers, which include low cost Chinese peers and Apple Inc’s smartphones. India, the world’s second-biggest smartphone market, has become the home to Samsung Electronics Co’s biggest mobile store in the world.…

Apple may have breached antitrust rules in Japan

Following a multi-year investigation, Japan’s regulator has found Apple’s contracts with mobile service providers to be in possible violation of the country’s antitrust rules. On Wednesday, Japanese regulators disclosed Apple Inc may have broken the country’s antitrust rules given the fact that it forces the country’s mobile service providers to sell its iPhones at cheap…

Apple drags former employee, Xiaolang Zhang, to court over theft of trade secrets

The criminal complaint sheds light on Apple’s secretive self-driving car project, many of which are detailed here. A criminal complaint filed by Apple against a former employee, Xiaolang Zhang, for allegedly stealing self-driving car trade secrets so as to work for a Chinese electric vehicle startup provides a window into Cupertino’s work on the technology,…