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Apple Music now available on Amazon Echo speakers via Alexa in the U.S.
Apple Music support on Amazon Echo speakers is starting to roll out in the United States…
Apple Music now has 56 million subscribers as Cupertino considers taking stake in iHeartMedia; HomePod sales notch best week since launch
After a slow start in streaming, music industry executives say Apple is gaining confidence…
Apple Music comes to Amazon Echo smart speakers starting December 17th
Apple Music subscribers will be able to enjoy Apple Music’s 50 million songs on Echo devices…
How Apple’s Tim Cook and other American top CEOs are spending their own money on the midterm elections
The chief executives contributed a total of $7.4 million to Republican groups, almost triple the $2.6 million contributed to Democratic committees…
Sirius XM, Amazon join forces in Echo device push
SiriusXM today announced a new marketing agreement with Amazon.com that bundles Amazon’s…
Amazon unveils 15 new Alexa-enabled products, including a microwave oven
How much would Apple Inc. be worth today had a Jeff Bezos-type CEO taken over the reins instead?
Amazon’s market value won’t be second to Apple for long – WSJ
Apple Inc. may have gotten there first, but Amazon.com’s rapid ascent to a $1 trillion market value…
Amazon briefly joins Apple in the $1 trillion club before falling back
Amazon.com Inc on Tuesday joined Apple Inc in the $1 trillion club…
St. Louis University installing Amazon Alexa campus-wide
The first college or university in the nation is installing Alexa-enabled Amazon Echo Dots in every single dorm room…
Ex-Apple CEO Sculley: Tim Cook got Wall Street to fall in love with what Steve Jobs built
Instead of inventing the best, new technology, Cook buys back stocks, hordes cash, and gives out dividends
Cupertino’s flirtation with an employer tax on Apple dies a quick, unanimous death
Cupertino’s brief second flirtation with putting an Apple Inc.-targeted business tax on the November ballot…
Apple takes issue with Cupertino’s proposed employer tax grab
Apple is not too pleased with a new employer tax proposal…
Apple purges ‘Doorbell’ category from HomeKit accessories page
Apple has quietly removed the entire ‘Doorbell’ category from its roster of current and future HomeKit accessories…
Amazon closes on Apple in the race to trillion-dollar market cap
In the battle for the first company to reach and sustain $1 trillion in stock market value…
Cupertino’s ‘Apple employee tax’ put off for a year; voters will instead weigh in during 2019 special election
Cupertino elected officials have scrapped a controversial plan…
Richest person in the world Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is now worth a record $141 billion
Bezos is worth roughly $49 billion more than Bill Gates and about $60 billion more than Warren Buffett…
Silicon Valley weighs per-employee tax for large employers
The Silicon Valley cities that are home to Google and Apple Inc. are considering the kind of per-employee tax…
Apple takes different tack than Amazon, secretly searches for new east coast campus
The world’s two most valuable technology companies — Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc….
Apple could get hit with employer tax in Cupertino
Cupertino is exploring a tax on Apple and other companies based on the size of their workforce…
Apple is almost a $1 trillion company, but watch out for Amazon
Apple is on the verge of becoming the first $1 trillion publicly listed U.S. company…
Amazon suspends construction in Seattle while the city considers a new per-employee tax
Amazon is suspending plans to add 7,000 to 8,000 jobs in 1 million square feet of new office space…
Amazon moves closer to overtaking Apple as most valuable U.S. company
Amazon.com‘s market value jumped on Friday morning after its latest earnings report…
Amazon Prime to increase U.S. annual fee 20% from $99 to $119
Amazon will increase the annual cost of Prime for U.S. customers to $119 per year…
Amazon begins free delivery to your car
Amazon’s latest perk: Free delivery to your car…
Americans place Apple distant third behind Amazon and Google in ‘positive impact on society’ survey
Some 20 percent of Americans believe Amazon is having the most positive impact on society…
Amazon hits 100 million Amazon Prime members milestone
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s annual shareholder letter…
Amazon completes Ring acquisition, drops price of original video doorbell under $100
Amazon completed its acquisition of smart-home security company Ring this morning…
Amazon to acquire Ring video doorbell maker
Amazon has reportedly agreed to acquire smart home company Ring for more than $1 billion…
A test used by NASA assessed top leaders, including Apple CEO Tim Cook and President Trump
Ever wanted to get inside the heads of the world’s top leaders?
If Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett lift the veil on health prices, insurers are in trouble
News that Jeff Bezos’ Amazon and Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway are forming their own healthcare company with JPMorgan Chase…
Amazon raises monthly Prime rate from $10.99 to $12.99, annual rate stays at $99
Amazon raised the monthly rate for its Prime service by 18% on Friday…
Inventec begins initial shipments of Apple’s long-awaited HomePod
Inventec Corp, one of the two assemblers for Apple Inc’s HomePod, has started shipping the US company’s…
Alexa is killing Siri at CES 2018, and HomePod, if it ever ships, isn’t going to make a difference
When Siri launched in beta form back in 2011…
President Trump vows to send Americans back to the moon
The policy directive marks the official reversal of the Obama administration’s plan to visit an asteroid…
Apple’s Cook, Facebook’s Zuckerberg meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing
Xi was speaking to business leaders and officials…
Apple CEO Tim Cook signs letter encouraging President Trump to preserve the DACA ‘Dreamers’ program
In a move organized by FWD.us, the immigration reform group led by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg…
Ikea’s smart home dares to make sense
The ‘smart home’ has not yet distinguished itself. Sure, you might dim your lights…
China’s dream is Apple’s nightmare: U.S. tech firms face risks as they quietly bow to China’s censorship and technology demands
CEOs of U.S. high-tech companies have been notably silent…
Apple has proven me wrong about HomeKit
Apple has made major changes to HomeKit that accelerate the standard’s trajectory…
As Apple’s services business grows in China, so does its censorship risk
Apple Inc. took a public-opinion beating after it removed anticensorship tools from its China app store…
Joining Apple, Amazon’s China cloud service bows to censors
Another major American technology company is moving to implement the country’s tough restrictions on online content…
