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Apple temporarily closes some retail stores in Italy due to coronavirus
Apple is set to temporarily close a single retail store location in a shopping mall in Italy, Apple Oriocenter, on March 7th and 8th on orders from…
Apple restricts employee travel to Italy, South Korea due to coronavirus
After restricting employee travel to China, Apple is now doing the same for Italy and South Korea, due to concerns over the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak.
Google cancels ‘physical’ I/O event due to coronavirus concerns
Google has announced that it will not host an in-person I/O event this year over coronavirus concerns. The company is said to be looking into an…
iPhone assembler Foxconn expects China factories to return to normal by month end
Foxconn, Apple’s iPhone assembler, expects its factories in China to return to normal by the end of this month after the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak…
Woz and his wife don’t have coronavirus, just a sinus infection
Earlier today, Apple co-founder Steve “Woz” Wozniak tweeted that he might have the COVID-19 coronavirus. It turns out to be just a sinus infection…
Woz and his wife may be the first U.S. COVID-19 coronavirus cases
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak today tweeted that he and his wife may have the first in the U.S. – patients zero – to have the COVID-19 coronavirus …
Apple shares surge as investors buy the coronavirus dip
Shares of Apple surged back from a 4-month low to jump 6.3% and lift the S&P 500 more than any other company. The stock market bounced back on Monday…
Ming-Chi Kuo: Significant iPhone production won’t resume until Q2
According to a research note from Apple uber-analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, iPhone production will not significantly improve until Q2 of 2020…
Apple sends care packages with iPads and more to employees stranded in China
Apple has sent gift packages that include iPads, hand sanitizers, disinfecting wipes, face masks, and more to its employees stranded in China…
Apple is keeping a close eye on outbreaks in Italy and South Korea
Apple is keeping a close eye on coronavirus outbreaks in Italy and South Korea as the company has major suppliers n South Korea and sources chips from Italy…
A dog in Hong Kong tests positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus
The World Health Organization confirmed that a dog in Hong Kong has tested “weakly positive” for the COVID-19 coronavirus. Hong Kong scientists…
Panicked selling of AAPL lets Apple execute buybacks cheaply
Quite an impressive display of panic in the stock market this week has afforded Apple a golden opportunity to execute billions of dollars in buybacks …
Fed seen cutting rates amid virus threat, low inflation
Traders are betting that the U.S. Federal Reserve may move aggressively to cut rates due the effects of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak…
Coronavirus pandemic fears fuel Wall St. correction
For the sixth straight session, Wall St.’s main indexes plummeted on Thursday, with the S&P 500 confirming its fastest correction in history…
Apple pulls pandemic simulation game Plague Inc. from App Store in China
Ndemic Creations, maker of the pandemic simulation game Plague Inc., says the game has been pulled from Apple’s App Store in China because Chinese…
Apple CEO Cook optimistic China is getting the coronavirus under control
In an interview with Susan Li for FOX Business, Apple CEO Tim Cook say he sees China is getting the coronavirus under control and how Apple is…
Thanks to the U.S.-China trade war, companies like Apple are better prepared for coronavirus
Despite the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus, some U.S. companies find themselves better offn than they otherwise might have been due to the U.S.-China trade war…
Apple’s timeline for next-gen iPhones clouded by coronavirus
Just at the time when Apple engineers usually jet off to Asia to perfect the production of this fall’s next-gen iPhones, former employees and supply chain experts…
Apple’s China iPhone sales up 5% YOY in January despite coronavirus
According to UBS Research’s analysis of Chinese government data on Monday, Apple’s iPhone sales in China actually climbed 5% vs. January 2019…
China manufacturing reboots after coronavirus shutdown
Main manufacturing hubs in China’s east and south are seeing hundreds of thousands of migrant workers return to work as many parts of the country ease…
Apple reopens more than half of retail stores in China
Apple has reopened more than half of its retail stores in China after closing all outlets due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak…
Apple stock, other techs fall as coronavirus spreads beyond China
In Monday trading, Apple and other tech stocks fell amid reports that the China coronavirus outbreak threatens to turn into a pandemic. Apple stock fell …
Analyst: Apple supply chain issues to last at least a month
Heavily reliant on China, Apple’s supply chain will likely at least a month to get back to full capacity due to disruptions caused by the coronavirus…
Apple iPad demand in China gains momentum from coronavirus outbreak
iPad demand in China gaining momentum due to the coronavirus outbreak as it fuels the need for remote work and learning, but the tablet supply chain…
Analyst: Apple’s ‘revenue has merely been delayed’ due to coronavirus
After Apple announced last week that it wouldn’t be able to meet its previously-issued Q220 revenue forecast due to coronavirus-related supply…
Apple adjusts due to coronavirus to keep next-gen iPhones on track
Apple is course correcting for the coronavirus in order to keep next-gen iPhones and other products on track. Apple is showing no signs of changing…
Stocks drop on coronavirus fears, tech leads sector declines
U.S. stocks dropped on Friday as a spike in new coronavirus cases in China and other countries fueled investors’ fears. Declines on Friday were led by…
Apple supplier Hynix tells 800 workers to stay home over coronavirus fears
South Korean chipmaker and Apple supplier SK Hynix said on Thursday that 800 of its workers had quarantined themselves due to concerns over the coronavirus…
Will the coronavirus outbreak cause Apple to cancel WWDC 2020?
Every year, Apple invites developers from all around the world to WWDC. But, will the coronavirus outbreak cause Apple to cancel WWDC 2020?
