The Apple Economy

Budget Battles

  • Apple’s App Store Bigger Than Hollywood Box Office

    By Amey Stone

    On Tuesday, Apple posted the largest quarterly profit of any company in history. Its $18 billion net income, up from $13 billion a year ago, is mainly due to selling 74.5 million iPhones in the...

  • Why Google Keeps Struggling Against Facebook

    By John Melloy, CNBC

    Shares of Google may struggle in coming years as the company faces a maturing search business, lower margins in other products and increased competition from Facebook , according to a Wall Street...

  • CES 2015: Prepare for 3D​ Printers and VR

    By Cnbc Staff, CNBC

    Don't hold your breath for any completely brand new technologies coming out of the International Consumer Electronics Show this year, as the focus among the 3,500 vendors will be more on improving—...

  • Intel Earbuds

    Why 2015 May Be the Year of the Ear for Wearables

    By Nyshka Chandran, CNBC

    Forget smartwatches and the Google Glass - 2015 may be the year of the ear for wearable technology. "There's some interesting information you can capture through the ear. We've been looking at things...

  • Apple faithful line up for latest, larger iPhones

    How Apple Won Christmas 2014 — and the Year in Mobile

    By Yuval Rosenberg

    Apple capped off a strong comeback year with a very merry Christmas. The iPhone 6 and other Apple smartphones and tablets accounted for 51.3 percent of all such devices activated in the week through...

  • Google Glass

    Why Google Glass Still Lacks 20-20 Vision

    By ALEXEI ORESKOVIC, Reuters

    After two years of popping up at high-profile events sporting Google Glass, the gadget that transforms eyeglasses into spy-movie worthy technology, Google co-founder Sergey Brin sauntered bare-faced...

  • 10 Unexpected Black Friday Deals

    By Lindsay Sakraida, dealnews.com

    At this point, we're all pretty familiar with the notion of Black Friday season , and it's very likely that you know what the usual suspects will be for doorbuster deals once the ads start rolling...

  • Alibaba Tops $8B Mark in Display of Consumer Power

    By Adam Jourdan, Reuters

    E-commerce giant Alibaba's Singles' Day sales broke through the $8 billion mark late on Tuesday, illustrating the buying power of the Chinese consumer and the importance of the event in the retail...

  • Be a Great Hacker, Get a Great Job

    By Mary Thompson, CNBC

    At the Money 2020 Hackathon in Las Vegas, there's more than just the $125,000 in prize money at stake. Winners here may also land a job with one of the hackathon's sponsors PayPal. "They get to learn...

  • Why Investors Give Company Founders a Longer Leash

    By Tim Mclaughlin and ROSS KERBER, Reuters

    For good stock market bets, some top investors can't be too bothered by details like corporate profits: instead, they pick companies run by their founders. Four of the top six performing companies on...