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...

  • The 'Mini Steve Jobs' Behind Apple's iOS 5

    By JAY YAROW, The Business Insider

    With Steve Jobs gone, Apple is now being led by a few key executives.One of the most important is Scott Forstall, the man in charge of iOS, Apple's mobile software. iOS-powered devices account for...

  • The Mobile Invasion of America

    By Cecilia Kang, The Washington Post

    The machines are taking over. At least that’s the case with cellphones and other mobile devices, which for the first time outnumber human beings in the United States, the wireless trade group CTIA...

  • Steve Jobs, Apple’s Co-Founder, Has Died at 56

    By Patricia Sullivan

    After years of battling a rare form of pancreatic cancer, Steve Jobs, the man who challenged the tech world to “think different,” died at the age of 56.

  • It’s Apple’s Way or the Highway

    By Steve Wildstrom, The Fiscal Times

    Apple has imposed its will on its supply chain since Day One, and wireless carriers have been forced to fall into line.

  • Microsoft’s Dicey Answer to the iPad

    By Steve Wildstrom, The Fiscal Times

    To counter the Apple juggernaut, Microsoft is trying to fire back. Its best shot will be if its soon-to-be-released Windows 8 can provide the basis for a tablet that’s acceptable to Corporate America.