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...

  • Why Uber’s on a Collision Course in Germany

    By Eric Auchard, Reuters

    A German regional court has issued a temporary injunction against Uber, the fast-growing, U.S.-based online chauffeur service which is no stranger to legal challenges from taxi-cab rivals and...

  • How a 15-Year-Old Investor Beat the Market...

    By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal Times

    When Alice Finn, a veteran wealth manager, set up small investment accounts to help teach her two children basic investing principles, she never expected that she’d end up picking up some new ideas...

  • The Key Info We’re Withholding on Facebook

    By Cadie Thompson, CNBC

    People are willing to share a lot about themselves on social media, but they're still shy about sharing certain opinions if they feel like their views are in the minority, according to a Pew Research...

  • Type Like Hemingway, Courtesy of Tom Hanks

    By Natasha Baker, Reuters

    A new app for the iPad aims to recreate the nostalgic sense of typing on a manual typewriter, but ramped up to meet the demands of digital-age word processing. The brainchild of Oscar-winning actor...

  • The Virus That’s Threatening U.S. Government Computers

    By Aliya Sternstein, Next-Gov

    A surge of malicious software hit news media websites during the first half of 2014, unleashing a threat to federal agencies that rely on those sites to get information, cybersecurity researchers say...