Apple has mind-boggling $178 billion in cash to spend
Those are just a few ways Cook could get rid of that cash. He could also buy either Visa (V) or MasterCard (MA) (not even Apple could afford both) to…
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The Apple Watch To Go On Sale In April
Warm up your wrists. It’s coming. The Apple Watch will start shipping in April, Apple CEO Tim Cook said during a call with investors and analysts on Tuesday. Until now,…
Apple’s Earnings Soar on Strong iPhones Sales in China
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple is famous for setting trends. In China, though, Apple has found success by following one. – In 2013, Apple also released the iPhone 5C, a lower-cost…
How Apple Got Us To Spend Even More On iPhones
Apple got millions of you to buy a more expensive iPhone. The average price of an iPhone during the three months that ended in December was $687.30, up from $602.92…
How many iPhones did Apple sell?
Making such gigantic inroads in China was once believed impossible. Apple’s brand did not hold the same cache as some Chinese smartphone makers, including Xiaomi, Lenovo and Huawei. And those…
Can Apple live up to the iHype?
Repeat success? Still, Wall Street wants Apple to do more than beat expectations, it wants the tech giant to crush them. Apple has beaten consensus earnings estimates for the past…
Apple Pay won’t add to Apple’s profit
Related: Apple Pay is a win for (smart) retailers Yet with Apple taking just 0.15% of every Apple transaction, all that love and goodwill isn’t going to add anything significant…
I did LSD with Steve Jobs
“We were monk-wannabes,” Kottke said. They were on a quest to better understand consciousness using an LSD varietal known as Orange Sunshine as their Sherpa. “We were … in a…
Tim Cook on his way to the billionaire club
Despite his big payday, Cook was one of the lowest-paid executives at Apple (AAPL, Tech30) last year. New Apple Store chief Angela Ahrendts got a $73.3 million pay package, most…
The Truth About How Apples Grow Will Make You Truly Appreciate That Next Slice Of Pie
Nature would have us believe that if you plant an apple seed in the ground, water it and give it time to grow, you would end up with a big,…
Apple’s MLK Day honors stir controversy
“There is no greater way to celebrate [King’s] legacy than to serve the communities where we live and work,” wrote Denise Young Smith, head human resources at Apple, in a…
Brands that love LGBT the most
Amazon: CEO Jeff Bezos has voted with his wallet: His 2012 donation of $2.5 million to a same sex organization in Washington state was believed to be the largest such…
Apple sued because iPhone isn’t really 16 GB
Apple did not reply to a request for comment. Related: Is Apple the perfect stock? – Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc….