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...

  • Steve Jobs’ Own Apple Computer Could Fetch $600K

    By Chris Michaud, Reuters

    A fully operational Apple computer that company co-founder Steve Jobs sold out of his parents' garage in 1976 for $600 will hit the auction block in December, where it is expected to fetch more than...

  • Why Alibaba's Jack Ma Wants to Work with Apple Pay

    By Deepa Seetharaman, Reuters

    Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd ( BABA.N ) executive chairman Jack Ma said he's open to working with Apple Inc ( AAPL.O ) on mobile payments, as China's richest person prepares to call on Hollywood this...

  • States Turn to Cloud Computing for Cost Savings

    By Jeffrey Stinson, Stateline

    Seven years ago, the state of Delaware started moving computer servers out of closets and from under workers’ desks to create a consolidated data center and a virtual computing climate. In doing so,...

  • Alibaba IPO: Everything You Need to Know

    By Marine Cole

    Alibaba Group, the Chinese e-commerce giant, is expected to go public on Friday, September 19 in what is likely to be the largest IPO ever.

  • Alibaba, Big Valuation and All, Still a Big Question Mark

    By JESSICA TOONKEL, Reuters

    When Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding revealed plans earlier this year to go public on a U.S. stock exchange, financial advisers like Bob Mecca in Hoffman Estate, Illinois braced...