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Apple Chip Supplier Skyworks Targets 5G, IoT Markets

Skyworks Solutions (SWKS), an Apple (AAPL) chip supplier, announced that it’s opening a design center and research lab in San Diego, Calif. The design center will develop technologies for 4G and 5G protocols as well as the emerging Internet of Things. The lab is slated to become operational in July. “With the addition of Skyworks’ new design center in San Diego, we are well positioned to extend our market leadership and further empower ubiquitous

Illumina tops MIT ‘smartest’ companies ranking; Apple, Facebook dissed

Apple (AAPL) didn’t make MIT’s “smartest companies” list, but emerging smartphone rival Xiaomi did. Gene mapper Illumina (ILMN) is tops among smartest companies, says the university, followed by electric car maker Tesla Motors (TSLA); Google (GOOGL); Samsung, another Apple rival; and cloud software provider Salesforce.com (CRM). How do editors at MIT’s Massachusetts Technology Review explain the rankings, which also pass over Facebook (FB)? Here’s how: “Familiar names such as Apple and Facebook aren’t on this list because reputation doesn’t matter. We’re highlighting where important innovations are happening right now,” wrote executive editor Brian Bergstein. “We didn’t count patents or Ph.D.s; instead, we asked whether a company had made strides in the past year that will define its field. The biggest of these strides happened at Illumina, which is driving down the price of DNA sequencing to levels that will change the practice of medicine.” Unlike the trailblazing iPhone, the…

Apple changes its tune after Taylor Swift complains

Apple (AAPL) executives are smart enough not to get on Taylor Swift’s bad side. Less than 24 hours after the “Bad Blood” singer complained publicly about Apple’s decision not to pay royalties during a three-month trial period of its new streaming music service, the company reversed course. On Sunday, Swift posted an article on her blog explaining why she is holding back her hit album “1989” from Apple Music, which launches on June 30. She called Apple’s move not to pay royalties during the trial period “shocking (and) disappointing.” She said her decision to withhold “1989” was a statement meant to show support for new artists and young songwriters who “will not get paid for a quarter of a year’s worth of plays on his or her songs.” She added: “These are the echoed sentiments of every artist, writer and producer in my social circles…