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How beleaguered Intel fell so far behind
Apple still makes Macs with Intel chips, but nobody really wants them. They’re the past, not the future. Even Apple’s entry-leve M1 chip runs…
Apple celebrates 45th birthday
Today, April 1, 2021, Apple celebrates its 45th birthday! Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne on April 1, 1976…
Judge rules Swatch can use Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ ‘One more thing’ phrase
“One more thing,” Steve Jobs would say at the end of select Apple special media event keynote addresses, giving his cue for announcing…
Steve Jobs warned Jeff Bezos that iTunes would kill CD sales
Just before the release of iTunes for Windows, Apple CEO Steve Jobs warned Amazon founder Jeff Bezos that iTunes would kill CD sales …
Steve Jobs’ job application sells at auction for $222,394
A job application completed and signed by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has sold at auction for about $222,000. Bck in 2018, the same…
The best $400 million Apple, or any other company, ever spent
In the late 1990s, Apple was in big trouble. Thankfully, Apple’s CEO Gil Amelio made the best business decision he’s ever made…
Apple’s longtime App Store developer relations chief Ron Okamoto retires
Apple’s executive in charge of App Store developer relations, Ron Okamoto, has retired and the role has been taken over by a key marketing…
Today is the 66th anniversary of Steve Jobs’ birth
Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955. Today would have been his 66th birthday, had the co-founder of Apple Inc. had not succumbed…
How Tim Cook transformed Apple after Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was a visionary. Tim Cook, by most accounts, is not. But, what Cook lacks in showmanship and inventiveness, he makes up for in…
In bid to overturn $15.7 billion Apple tax verdict, EU claims court made errors
EU antitrust bureaucrats have claimed a court made legal errors when it scrapped their 13 billion euro ($15.7B) Apple tax grab in Ireland…
Apple Watch Series 7 said to feature non-invasive blood glucose monitoring
The Apple Watch Series 7 due later this year will feature blood glucose monitoring via an optical sensor. Measuring blood glucose levels…
It’s official: Flash is dead as Adobe blocks Flash content entirely
It’s official: Flash is dead. After Adobe dropped support for Flash Player and continued to strongly recommend that all users immediately…
Elon Musk becomes richest person on earth
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has held title of world’s richest person since October 2017, but he’s now been surpassed by Elon Musk whose…
Apple Car said to be at least five years away
Apple has small team of hardware engineers working on an actual vehicle, but development is still at least five years away…
Adobe strongly recommends all users immediately uninstall Flash Player – here’s how
Adobe will block Flash content in Flash Player beginning January 12, 2021, Adobe strongly recommends all users immediately uninstall Flash…
Apple has become a dividend powerhouse
Apple has become a dividend powerhouse. At the end of October, Apple’s Board declared a cash dividend of $0.205 per share of the…
Steve Jobs’ grand plan comes together in Apple’s M1 chip
Apple’s M1 chip is an essential piece of Steve Jobs’ grand plan which Apple is still executing nearly a decade after his passing…
Today is the ninth anniversary of Steve Jobs’ death
Today marks the 9th anniversary of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ death. Jobs died at his Palo Alto, California home on October 5, 2011…
Apple: ‘We have always abided by the law in Ireland,’ as EU appeals tax grab loss
On Friday, Apple said it has always complied with Irish tax laws and that the issue which led to an EU tax order of 13 billion euros…
Apple court triumph forces tough choice for Vestager’s EU tax crusade
Apple’s July court triumph over a massive European Union tax grab is forcing antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager to make a tough choice…
Apple increasingly focused on succession plan for post-Tim Cook future
Apple CEO Tim Cook and his deputies are increasingly focused on a succession plan as Cook enters his 10th year as Apple’s CEO…
Gene Munster: There is a clear path for Apple to $3 trillion market value
Apple’s market cap hit $2 trillion on Wednesday. Is $3 trillion possible? Yes, it is.The milestone give longtime Apple analyst Gene Munster…
Apple CEO Tim Cook becomes a billionaire
Apple keeps rising, driving the company Steve Jobs co-founded 44 years ago to new heights and its CEO, Tim Cook, a newly-minted billionaire …
How Apple’s Tim Cook builds upon Steve Jobs’ successes
Apple, led by Tim Cook and now the world’s most valuable company, continues to dominate the smartphone market which Steve Jobs created…
Fortune magazine autographed by Steve Jobs sells for $16,638
A Fortune magazine with a cover autographed by Steve Jobs has sold for $16,638. The recipient, Terry, was one of Jobs’ chauffeur drivers for several years…
Email from Steve Jobs reveal why iOS users can’t directly buy Kindle books
The documents reveal the behind-the-scenes action at large multinational companies, including a few emails from Apple co-founder Steve Jobs …
Apple wins fight over $14.9 billion tax grab in blow to EU
Apple won its court fight over a record $14.9 billion Irish tax grab in a crushing blow to EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager…
Michael Hawley, who helped write Steve Jobs’ Stanford commencement speech, dies
Michael Hawley, a computer programmer, professor, musician, speechwriter and impresario who helped lay the intellectual groundwork for what is now…
Ex-Apple lawyer’s insider-trading ‘Hail Mary’ opposed by U.S. prosecutors
U.S. prosecutors told a federal judge that former Apple lawyer Gene Levoff is making a bogus “Hail Mary” argument that insider-trading charges against him…
Scott Forstall reveals how his interview with Steve Jobs went
On Wednesday, Scott Forstall, co-inventor of iPhone and iOS (and Tony-Award winning Broadway producer) joined Code.org co-founder Hadi Partovi…
Eric Schmidt completely departs from Google
Eric Schmidt, known unaffectionately in these parts as Eric T. Mole, has quietly ended his 19-year tenure at Google, where he was brought in to be…
Randall Stephenson to retire as AT&T CEO
After serving 13 years as AT&T’s Chairman and CEO, Randall Stephenson, 60, will retire as CEO but will serve as Executive Chairman…
Pixar computer-graphics pioneers win tech’s Turing Award
Pixar computer-graphics pioneers have won tech’s Turing award. The technology that animated groundbreaking movies like Pixar’s “Toy Story” and enabled…
Bob Iger steps down as Disney CEO, effective immediately
Disney announced Tuesday that CEO Bob Iger will step down and become executive chairman through 2021, effective immediately. Bob Chapek…
Today is the 65th anniversary of Steve Jobs’ birth
Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955. Today would have been his 65th birthday, had the co-founder of Apple Inc. had not succumbed to complications…
Functional Apple-1, PowerBook signed by Steve Jobs up for auction
teve Jobs memorabilia and a slew of rare Apple computer hardware is set to hit the block at auction house RR Auction next month…
Larry Tesler, Apple employee who created cut-and-paste, dead at 74
Computer scientist and user interface guru Larry Tesler, a key figure at Apple during its early years, died Monday at the age of 74…
Ex-Apple exec being sued by Apple accuses firm of poaching his staff
A former Apple chip executive who is being sued by the company after he allegedly poached its staff for his new Nuvia server chips startup…
Apple’s unstoppable wearables: Apple Watch and AirPods
Apple’s wearables division looks unstoppable. For Apple’s Q120 (holiday 2019 forth quarter), wearables set a new all-time record…
Apple’s iPad transformed computing
Even some of Apple’s most dedicated fans seem to think the iPad has been something of a disappointment, but, really, Apple’s iPad has transformed computing…
Apple’s iPad turns 10 years old today
Apple’s iPad turned 10 years old today. Yes, this is the 10th anniversary of Steve Jobs’ unveiling of the iPad at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts…
