https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Italy's competition authority on Wednesday said it was fining Apple and Samsung €10 and €5 million respectively for the "planned obsolescence" of their smartphones. https://www.thelocal.it/20181024/italy-fines-apple-and-samsung-millions-for-deliberately-slowing-down-phones Wed, 24 Oct 2018 15:14:18 +0200 italy-fines-apple-and-samsung-millions-for-deliberately-slowing-down-phones Italy's antitrust authority said on Thursday it had launched a probe into tech giants Apple and Samsung for allegedly shortening the lives of their products so clients would buy newer models. https://www.thelocal.it/20180119/italy-probes-apple-and-samsung-for-shortening-product-lives Fri, 19 Jan 2018 09:51:15 +0100 italy-probes-apple-and-samsung-for-shortening-product-lives Technology giant Apple opened its first European Academy in the southern Italian city of Naples on Thursday, a project it is hoped will provide opportunities for work and study to the city's younger generation. https://www.thelocal.it/20161006/apples-academy-opens-naples-investment-italy Thu, 06 Oct 2016 19:46:24 +0200 apples-academy-opens-naples-investment-italy Five months after an investigation first began into the suspected terror network, Italian police are still unable to access a locked phone which may contain crucial information about planned attacks in Italy, France and the UK.. https://www.thelocal.it/20160512/italian-police-unable-to-access-terror-suspects-blocked-iphone Thu, 12 May 2016 12:00:00 +0200 italian-police-unable-to-access-terror-suspects-blocked-iphone A grieving father in Italy has written to Apple's chief executive Tim Cook to beg him to unblock his dead son's iPhone so he can retrieve the photographs stored on it. https://www.thelocal.it/20160331/grieving-father-begs-apple-and-enlists-hackers-to-unblock-dead-sons-iphone Thu, 31 Mar 2016 16:58:01 +0200 grieving-father-begs-apple-and-enlists-hackers-to-unblock-dead-sons-iphone Just weeks after the US tech giant said it would pay Italy millions of euros owed in tax, Apple is opening a product development facility in Naples, the company said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160121/apple-to-bring-600-jobs-to-poverty-stricken-naples Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:18:04 +0100 apple-to-bring-600-jobs-to-poverty-stricken-naples US tech giant Apple has agreed to pay €318 million in tax owed to Italy’s inland revenue, wrapping up an investigation that got underway in 2013, according to a report in La Repubblica. https://www.thelocal.it/20151230/apple-to-pay-italy-318-million-in-unpaid-tax-report Wed, 30 Dec 2015 10:37:04 +0100 apple-to-pay-italy-318-million-in-unpaid-tax-report The tax policies ruling the financial arm of Italian automaker Fiat, based in Luxembourg, are being investigated by the European Union along with those of companies Apple and Starbucks. https://www.thelocal.it/20140612/fiat-caught-in-eu-tax-probe Thu, 12 Jun 2014 10:30:00 +0200 fiat-caught-in-eu-tax-probe US tech giant Apple said on Thursday that it fully pays the taxes it owes everywhere, and was confident that a tax evasion probe in Italy would find it in compliance. https://www.thelocal.it/20131115/apple-says-it-pays-full-share-of-tax-in-italy Fri, 15 Nov 2013 09:23:12 +0100 apple-says-it-pays-full-share-of-tax-in-italy US computer giant Apple is under investigation in Italy for allegedly failing to declare over €1.0 billion to the tax man, Italian media reported on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20131114/apple-investigated-for-tax-fraud-in-italy-report Thu, 14 Nov 2013 09:05:00 +0100 apple-investigated-for-tax-fraud-in-italy-report A specially-designed yacht ordered by the late founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, has arrived at the old port of Genoa in Liguria, north-western Italy. https://www.thelocal.it/20130807/steve-jobs-yacht-sails-into-genoa Wed, 07 Aug 2013 13:22:00 +0200 steve-jobs-yacht-sails-into-genoa