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    Patrick McGee

    San Francisco correspondent

    Patrick McGee is the FT’s San Francisco correspondent covering Apple and US technology. He was previously in Frankfurt, writing about the Volkswagen scandal and the challenge to German carmakers from electric vehicles and self-driving tech. He joined the Financial Times in 2013 to cover Asian markets from Hong Kong.

    He was previously a bond reporter at the Wall Street Journal in New York. He has a Master's in Global Diplomacy from Soas, University of London, and a degree in religious studies from the University of Toronto.

    Email Patrick McGee @PatrickMcGee_  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)

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    • Thursday, 1 June, 2023
      Meta Platforms
      Meta unveils new virtual reality device ahead of Apple headset launch

      Chief Mark Zuckerberg teases new Quest 3 product as tech group continues to develop metaverse ambitions

    • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
      Semiconductors
      Apple expands US chip sourcing with multibillion-dollar Broadcom deal

      Partnership centres on 5G radio frequency components as iPhone maker pushes to buy domestically

    • Sunday, 21 May, 2023
      Virtual and Augmented Reality
      Facebook parent in talks with Magic Leap over augmented reality deal

      Social media giant seeks technologies to help create an avatar-filled ‘metaverse’

    • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
      Tesla Inc
      Tesla will ‘try a little advertising’, Elon Musk says

      Move would be a shift for the electric-car maker, which has largely eschewed conventional marketing

    • Tuesday, 16 May, 2023
      News in-depthNews in-depth3 min
      Could technology resurrect the woolly mammoth? | FT Rethink

      A US biotech company says it can reverse human-inflicted biodiversity loss and bring animals back from extinction

    • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
      Apple Inc
      Apple’s iPhone sales rebound after supply chain challenges

      Earnings come in better than expected despite second straight quarter of revenue decline

    • Wednesday, 3 May, 2023
      Apple Inc
      Refurbished iPhones boost Apple’s share of Indian market

      iPhones accounted for 11% of secondary smartphone sales in India last year, up from 3%

    • Friday, 28 April, 2023
      Big tech
      Big Tech earnings resilient as sector gears up for AI boom

      Solid financial performance across US tech giants has buoyed confidence on Wall Street at an important moment

    • Friday, 28 April, 2023
      Special ReportThe Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies
      Nimble companies capitalise on ‘last-mover advantage’

      Many entrants in this year’s FT/Statista ranking of the fastest-growing companies in the Americas have built on the success of others

    • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
      Amazon.com
      Amazon says cloud growth slowed as customers cut costs

      Ecommerce giant’s warning knocks out a rally in its shares after earnings report

    • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
      Big tech
      Microsoft and Alphabet earnings show signs of resilience

      Tech groups’ core businesses hold up better than expected after recent struggles

    • Friday, 21 April, 2023
      The Big Read
      Will Apple take a big bite out of the banks?

      The tech giant’s ventures into financial services signal greater ambitions to take on Wall Street 

    • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
      Behind the Money podcast22 min listen
      Why Apple can’t leave China

      Is the tech behemoth trapped? The FT’s Patrick McGee explains

    • Monday, 17 April, 2023
      US banks
      Apple and Goldman offer US savings account with 4.15% annual interest

      Product launched as depositors pull cash from bank accounts offering low returns

    • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
      Apple Inc
      Apple launches ‘buy now, pay later’ service in the US

      Tech giant debuts rival to companies such as Klarna and Affirm after delays

    • Sunday, 26 March, 2023
      Banks in turmoil
      Wine growers fear funding will wither after fall of Silicon Valley Bank

      The tech lender was a crucial pillar to vintners north of San Francisco

    • Monday, 20 March, 2023
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      Amazon cuts 9,000 more workers in efficiency drive

      Latest lay-offs add to 18,000 staff culled in January as company cuts costs following tech downturn

    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
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      Microsoft to add AI co-pilot to its Office software suite

      Tech giant hopes to steal a march on rivals such as Google, Baidu and Adobe in commercialising the new tool

    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
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      Dina Srinivasan: exposing the monopoly power of Facebook and Google

      Yale academic was among the first to show that tech groups’ ‘free’ products could be anti-competitive

    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
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      Company has partnered with hospitals and Sweetgreen salad chain to deliver goods in a 10-mile range within 10 minutes

    • Sunday, 12 March, 2023
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      Cook bets on Apple’s mixed-reality headset to secure his legacy

      New launch will be first steered entirely by CEO and under direction of operations team

    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
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      A day at the virtual office

      For some firms, the future of work is already here 

    • Tuesday, 21 February, 2023
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      How Apple captured Gen Z in the US — and changed their social circles

      Younger Americans prefer an iPhone over Android by huge margins, creating unusual pressure over how they communicate

    • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
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    • Tuesday, 14 February, 2023
      News in-depthApple Inc
      Apple’s manufacturing shift to India hits stumbling blocks

      The iPhone maker is under pressure to unwind its China-orientated supply chain strategy following Covid disruption

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