Amid renewed fears about yet another COVID variant, this time, omicron, Apple stock once again became a flight to safety trade amid heavy tech…
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Concern over Apple’s iPhone demand likely overblown
Bloomberg News suggested on Thursday that “demand for the iPhone 13 lineup has weakened.” This “iPhone slowdown” story is pretty much…
Stock market sell-off worsens; Apple slides on report of weakening iPhone demand
Dow Jones futures declined more than 200 points in pre-market trading on Thursday. Apple stock slid on reportedly weak iPhone demand …
Wall Street and Apple rebound from Omicron COVID variant fear
Apple stock posted strong gains in early Monday trading as investors rushed to take advantage of Friday’s steep losses over Omicron COVID…
Apple postpones its full office reopening until March 2022
15 days to slow the spread has morphed into two years and counting. Apple is once again postponing its full office reopening until…
Apple shares gain on report of iPad production cuts to prioritize iPhone
Apple shares gained Tuesday following a report that the company is cutting back on iPad production in order to direct scarce semiconductors…
Apple cuts iPad production by 50% to feed chips to iPhone 13
Apple has cut back sharply on iPad production – by some 50% – to allocate more components to iPhone 13 models…
Apple mandates daily COVID-19 tests for unvaccinated corporate employees
Apple will force unvaccinated corporate employees to undergo daily COVID-19 tests while vaccinated staff members will be required to take…
Apple to give retail store employees up to $1,000 in one-time bonuses
Apple will give retail store employees up to $1,000 in one-time bonuses next month, following a tumultuous effort to get its retail…
Stock futures rise as Apple rebounds and COVID cases fall sharply
Dow Jones, S&P 500, and Nasdaq futures each rose Monday morning as the market digests the Epic Games v. Apple ruling and COVID cases fall …
Microsoft delays office reopening date indefinitely in America due to ‘COVID-19 uncertainty’
Microsoft on Thursday decided to push the dates for the full reopening of its offices in America indefinitely due to “COVID-19 uncertainty.”
Apple asks employees to ‘voluntarily’ report COVID-19 vaccination status
Apple is asking all U.S. employees to “voluntarily” report their COVID-19 vaccination status regardless of whether they are working remotely…
Apple urges, but doesn’t mandate, all employees to get COVID-19 vaccine
Apple is strengthening its push for employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine, but stops short of issuing a mandate …
Apple iPad dominates Western Europe tablet market
The tablet space in Western Europe has long been dominated by Apple, which grew shipments 73% in Q2 2021. Apple’s latest iPad Pro release…
Apple delays office return to at least January over COVID-19 fears
Apple is once again delaying its return to corporate offices pushing their return to work date to Jan. at the earliest over COVID-19 fears…
Apple scraps plan to resume in-store classes over COVID-19 fears
Apple will increase testing of employees and will delay rebooting in-store “Today at Apple” classes in the U.S. over COVID-19 fears …
Medical autonomy app Unjected banned by Apple over ‘misinformation’
A new social app, Unjected, designed as a community for the unvaccinated is has been pulled from the App Store by Apple over “misinformation”…
More than half of U.S. Apple Retail Stores to again require masks
Apple plans to restore the requirement to wear masks at most of its U.S. Apple Retail Stores on Thursday for both customers and staff, even…
Apple TV+ ‘The Morning Show’ Season 2 COVID-19 delay triggers $44 million lawsuit
The production company behind “The Morning Show,” Always Smiling Productions has $125 million in cast coverage, plus more…
Apple postpones office return by at least a month over COVID-19 concern
Apple is postponing its deadline to return to the office by at least a month – to October at the earliest – citing a resurgence of COVID-19 …
Apple employees threaten to quit over remote work request denials
As the lockdowns and restrictions due to the response to COVID-19 recede, Apple wants its employees to return to work in person. However…
Apple clashes with some staff members about returning to offices
Earlier this month, Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a memo that employees should begin returning to offices after the lengthly COVID-19…
Apple Retail Stores expand operations as U.S. emerges from response to COVID-19
Apple Retail Stores are expanding operations as the United States emerges from response to COVID-19, betting that a combination of…
Apple technology helped students and teachers stay connected during COVID-19 lockdowns
Over the last year, as bedrooms and kitchens became classrooms throughout the COVID-19 lockdowns, teachers and students around the world…
TSMC and Foxconn to buy 10 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines for Taiwan
Taiwan will allow Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and Foxconn to buy 10 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines on behalf…
Apple Retail Stores, offices start dropping mask requirement in U.S.
Apple will begin dropping the mask requirement for customers vaccinated against COVID-19 at many U.S. stores this week, as yet another…
Apple surveys developers whether they would attend in-person WWDC next year
As part of its annual survey given to developers at the end of WWDC, Apple is asking whether, following two years of the conference being…
Taiwan Apple supplier says global chip shortage will worsen without COVID-19 vaccines
A Taiwan Apple supplier has warned that the global chip shortage will worsen without a large and timely increase in COVID-19 vaccinations in…
Apple CEO Cook: Employees should begin returning to offices in early September
Apple CEO Tim Cook said Wednesday employees should begin returning to offices in early September for at least three days a week…
Taiwan says working hard to get vaccines, COVID-19 infections fall
Taiwan is working hard to get the almost 20 million COVID-19 vaccines it has ordered as soon as possible even in the face of global shortages…
Facebook ends ban on posts claiming COVID-19 is man-made
Facebook, the ad-tracking behemoth has, with egg on its collective face, ended its ban on posts that say COVID-19 is potentially man-made …
Vietnam COVID-19 outbreak threatens to disrupt tech supply chain
A rapidly spreading COVID-19 outbreak has left factories operating below capacity in Vietnam’s industrial northern provinces, where…
Wall Street ends lower, weighed down by Apple
Wall Street dropped on Friday, with Apple, Google-parent Alphabet, and other tech-related companies dipping despite recent strong earnings…
Apple launches COVID-19 vaccination program for employees
Apple is launching a COVID-19 vaccination program program to help employees get inoculated against COVID-19, according to people with…
Apple Maps adds COVID-19 travel guidance for over 300 airports around the world
After updating Apple Maps with COVID-19 vaccination locations from VaccineFinder earlier this month, Apple has updated…
Apple encourages employees to get COVID-19 vaccination, offers paid time off
Apple is encouraging employees to get COVID-19 vaccination by offering paid time off for appointments and paid sick leave for those…
Strong iPhone 12 demand ups Apple’s market share in Gulf countries
Apple posted a remarkable 55.7% QoQ increase in Gulf countries shipments in Q4 2020 following the release of its iPhone 12 line of devices…
Former Apple Store manager indicted in $1.5 million COVID relief fraud case
For fraudulently obtaining or attempting to obtain over $1,500,000 in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) COVID relief loans …
Apple CEO Tim Cook ‘can’t wait’ for a post-pandemic return to work in Apple Park
As the COVID-19 vaccine rollout continues, Apple CEO Tim Cook, however, is now feeling bullish about returning to work in Apple Park …
Global chip shortage ‘affecting everybody except Apple,’ Android phones face delays
Samsung today warned that there is a “serious imbalance” in semiconductors causing a global chip shortage that could delay…
Apple Maps now displays COVID-19 vaccination locations
Apple today updated Apple Maps with COVID-19 vaccination locations from VaccineFinder, a free, online service developed by Boston…
Strategy Analytics: Smartphone applications processor revenue hit all-time high in 2020
Despite the response to COVID-19, the global smartphone applications processor market showed resiliency and grew 25 percent year-on-year…
