Investment firm RBC Capital Markets slashed its price target for Apple stock to $140 this week…
Month: December 2015
Apple names Jeff Williams Chief Operating Officer, other executive additions and changes
Apple today announced that Jeff Williams has been named chief operating officer…
Analyst: Apple Music already has 8 million subscribers, will hit 20 million in 2016
Apple Music went from zero to the No.2 streaming service in a matter of months in mid-2015…
Apple’s war chest approaches $300 billion; acquisition talk ramps up
Sitting on $200 billion in cash and eager to fill gaps in its product line…
Australian tax office explicitly names Apple among huge list of companies that practice tax avoidance
Australian tax authorities on Thursday took the unprecedented step of publishing the records of hundreds of companies…
Piggybacked U.S. cybersecurity bill may rile Apple Inc.
The cybersecurity proposal shields companies that voluntarily share threat data with the U.S. government…
Google: ‘iPhone 6s’ was top search term in consumer tech
Aside from the iPhone 6s being the top search term, the company’s Apple Watch placed 3rd, and the new iPad Pro was 4th…
One factor that could turn Apple stock torrid again
Apple has always been a bit of a maverick — hard to classify or predict…
U.S. Fed raises interest rates for first time in nearly a decade; Apple sees heavy volume
Apple is seeing big volume surrounding the Fed rate decision…
Apple, Amazon, Google, Yahoo expected to bid on NFL Thursday Night Football
The NFL has told TV networks that it is ready to accept bids for the ‘Thursday Night Football’ package…
Two years after acquisition, Apple shuts social analytics platform Topsy
Apple Inc has shut down its Topsy Labs unit, which specialized in analyzing Twitter data …
Piper Jaffray: Individual component suppliers are not indicative of the health of Apple’s overall iPhone business
Dialog Semiconductor this week cut its December quarter guidance by 11 percent compared to prior guidance…
How IBM helped Apple’s Mac sales last quarter
Mac is Apple’s second most valuable business and accounted for 13% of its revenues…
When a single e-mail gives hackers full access to your network
When you’re a Fortune 500 company that’s a favorite target of sophisticated hackers…
Yet another example of how Apple Music is messed up
I don’t use Apple Music for my main music library, but do use it on a test library on my MacBook…
Apple’s open source Swift will open the door for HomeKit
Apple’s decision to make Swift open source has the potential to intensify development…
Do not use emoji in your passwords
I’m a big fan of pushing emoji to their limits in weird places, but this guy learnt the hard way…
IBM releases 100th IBM MobileFirst for iOS app in partnership with Apple to transform the nature of work
Apple and IBM are expanding the portfolio to new markets including consumer products, automotive, aging and chemicals and petroleum…
U.S. Presidential candidate Jeb Bush reviews Apple Watch, reveals his favorite iPhone apps
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, after a town hall meeting in Milford, NH, reviewed the Apple Watch and…
Apple Watch future is bright as U.S. smartwatch sales seen primed for surge
Smartwatches are particularly popular among broadband households with children…
Apple Pay still frozen out as Australia banks agree to Android Pay deal
Big Australian banks have agreed to accept payments made on mobile devices using Google Inc’s Android Pay…
Analyst: No 3D Touch for Apple’s next-gen iPad Air due as early as March
The next generation of Apple’s market-defining tablet is unlikely to gain the pressure-sensitive technology…
Apple Music now works with Sonos speakers
Sonos just released an app update for iOS and Android that lets users stream albums, songs, playlists, and Beats 1 radio…
Alphabet’s Google launches an updated Maps app for Apple iPhone and iPad
Alphabet Inc.-owned Google rolled out an updated version of its Maps app for the iPhone and iPad…
How to setup Apple’s Photos and iCloud Photo Library with external storage and Time Machine backups
Using iCloud Photo Library lets you shoot or import photos and videos from your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, or the web…
BJ’s Wholesale Club card arrives in Apple Wallet; Apple Pay now works with over 60 more banks
BJ’s has become the second retailer to allow their store cards to be added to the Wallet app…
Apple stock slumps on Dialog Semi warning
Apple stock is lower by 0.45% to $111.97 in afternoon trading on Tuesday after Dialog Semiconductor…
MacKeeper scamware leaks 13 million Mac owners’ data, leaves passwords open to easy cracking
Do not install MacKeeper…
Prediction: Apple will become the world’s first $800 billion company
Apple recently announced record earnings for fiscal 2015, posting nearly one-quarter of a trillion dollars in revenue
Apple has hugely ambitious plans for open-sourced Swift, and hints on what’s coming to iOS
Craig Federighi revealed many interesting tidbits…
Apple’s taking big steps toward controlling even more primary technology
Things may be about to get tough for some Apple partners as the company invests in…
Apple Inc., the enterprise IT company
Apple has grown so quickly that it can be hard to grasp just enormous it is…
Increase in users dumping Android to upgrade to iPhone bodes well for Apple
26% of the users who bought iPhone 6S and 6S Plus in the first month of its launch switched from Android…
Analysts baselessly warning of ‘Peak iPhone’ allow Apple to buy back even more outstanding shares
On Monday, Katy Huberty of Morgan Stanley cited channel checks and a customer intent survey…
Apple’s surprise plan to boost iPhone sales is working
The one announcement that took everybody by surprise at Apple’s Sept. 9 iPhone event…
Apple buys former chip fab in San Jose, California
The facility also offers a complete tool line consisting of 197 well-maintained front-end tools…
Obama administration wants access to smartphones
A civil-liberties advocate called the Obama administration one of the worst for privacy protections…
Apple suppliers hit by Morgan Stanley’s iPhone sales forecast
Apple Inc’s component suppliers slid after Morgan Stanley forecast a drop in iPhone sales…
Apple operating secret laboratory in Taiwan to develop new, thinner displays for iPhone, iPad and Macintosh
Apple Inc. opened a secret production laboratory in northern Taiwan where engineers are developing new display technologies…
Some analysts see Apple iPhone sales turning negative in 2016
Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty has soured on prospects for iPhone growth next year…
Beleaguered Samsung to attempt to knock off Apple iPhone’s 3D Touch
Samsung Electronics Co. will add a pressure-sensitive display…
Obama administration’s calls for backdoors into encrypted communications echo Clinton-era key escrow fiasco
In the face of a Federal Bureau of Investigation proposal requesting backdoors into encrypted communications…
