Apple Music is thinking globally as the streaming service officially surpasses 40 million paid subscribers…
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Apple Music hits 40 million paid subscribers milestone
Apple Music recently greatly expanded with a Music Videos section…
Spotify opens at $165.90 on first day of trading
Spotify officially opened at $165.90 this afternoon in its public debut…
Apple Music becoming a virtual record label?
Apple Music executive Jimmy Iovine says streaming services are too similar…
Apple Music hits 38 million paid subscribers
Apple Inc’s streaming music service now has 38 million paid subscribers, up from 36 million in February…
Hey Apple, it’s time to drop the ‘Hey’ from ‘Hey Siri’
You don’t have to say “Hey Alexa,” so why do we still have to say “Hey Siri?”
There are nearly 50 million smart speaker users in the U.S.
There are now nearly 50 million smart speaker users in the U.S…
Apple updates Apple Music for Android
Version 2.4.0 of Apple Music for Android has been released with additional features for music video playback…
Why I’m thinking about getting an Apple HomePod
When I first saw Apple’s announcement of the HomePod…
Apple could gain 20% with a less expensive iPhone, says Trefis
Apple shares are currently trading around an all-time high figure of $180…
Spotify files for direct listing of up to $1 billion; claims 71 million paying subscribers; lost $1.5 billion last year
Music streaming service Spotify filed for a direct listing of up to $1 billion…
Apple Music expands student membership pricing to 82 new countries
Apple Music is expanding its subscription music service to 82 new markets…
Apple Music poised to knock off Spotify
Apple is turning up the volume on Apple Music, the streaming subscription that comes loaded on its devices…
Apple utterly dominates the premium smartphone market in China with 85% share
According to preliminary data from the IDC Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker…
Apple Music was always going to win
Apple Music is about to overtake Spotify as the most popular streaming music service in the United States…
‘Google is at Apple’s mercy’ – the trouble in Alphabet’s earnings
es, the company’s name is Alphabet these days, but it might as well be mud…
Apple leads in Indian premium smartphone market share, capturing 47% share in Q417
In terms of best selling models, iPhone X was the leading model in the premium segment…
Apple App Store users spent nearly double that of Google Play users in Q417
When it comes to mobile operating systems, all users are simply not equal…
Spotify files for its IPO
Music streaming giant Spotify confidentially filed IPO documents with the SEC at the end of December…
Apple: Proving the naysayers wrong
I find Apple today to be markedly less risky than many of its tech peers…
Apple Services: The nitrous in Cupertino’s profit engine
If you exclude the iPhone, for every $1 in profit Apple generated in selling all other products…
23 more app developers in China file lawsuit against Apple after App Store cuts 1 million apps
Anger is growing in China over Apple’s treatment of developers, with a second group of app designers…
Apple has a surprising new growth engine
Analyst Toni Sacconaghi of Bernstein Research put out a pointed note Monday about Apple…
Apple’s App Store in China accused of violating local pricing and antitrust laws
Apple offers gaming, dining and dating apps in a country where most rivals are locally owned…
Inside Apple’s massive services results
Apple’s second largest business last quarter in terms of revenue was its services business, eclipsing its Mac, iPad, and…
Apple’s App Store business model may be in danger in China
If Apple Inc. is lucky, a 10-page complaint posted on social media by a Chinese law firm…
Apple and Google pull hundreds of trading apps from stores over fears of financial scams
Apple and Google have removed hundreds of trading apps from their online stores after an intervention…
Russian hacker gang robbed Russian banks with over one million hacked Android phones
On Monday, Russian officials announced a successful series of raids against a hacking gang…
Apple’s App Store took 60% of mobile app sales in 2016 despite a smaller user base vs. Google’s Android
We estimate Apple recently passed 700 million iPhones in use…
Why Warren Buffett believes Apple can charge whatever it wants
People who buy iPhones generally aren’t swayed by lower prices…
Spotify leads call for investigation into ‘troubling’ Apple and Google app store practices
Spotify and a host of European internet businesses have called on Brussels to crack down…
Fire erupts at Samsung store in Singapore
A fire broke out in the stockroom of a Samsung store in Singapore…
Global elites’ love of iPhone made Apple’s iOS a prime CIA target
Although Google’s Android dominates the worldwide smartphone market, the CIA concentrated on Apple’s iOS…
Apple iPhone users spend more than ever on apps
When it comes to buying apps, iPhone users aren’t afraid to bust out their wallets…
Fire at Samsung plant in China caused by faulty batteries
A minor fire that broke out at a Samsung SDI Co Ltd factory in China on Wednesday was caused…
Apple users have higher credit scores than Android and Windows users
Users of Apple Mac computers have the highest credit scores both in the personal loan and mortgage loan categories…
After exploding phones, beleaguered Samsung’s so-called battery fix still incomplete
After four months of testing on over 200,000 phones, what did Samsung Electronics Co. determine caused its flagship Note 7 to catch fire?
Apple looks to become HBO
Apple has finally landed on an ideal strategy to go big in Hollywood…
Apple plans significant new business in producing original television shows and movies
Apple Inc. is planning to build a significant new business in original television shows and movies…
T-Mobile rolls out update that bricks beleaguered Samsung’s exploding Galaxy phones; AT&T and Sprint are up next
T-Mobile is the first major carrier to start ‘killing’ off the remaining Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones…
Apple App Store rejects Samsung Pay app for iPhone
Apple has rejected registration of ‘Samsung Pay Mini,’ which is a mobile payment system…
To avoid explosions and fires, Samsung wants to brick every Galaxy Note 7 in North America; Verizon refuses to release the software
Verizon will not be releasing a just-announced Galaxy Note 7 software update designed to kill the dangerous…