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 Race to Win in the $50B Connected Car Market

    By Blaise Robinson, Reuters

    Technology and telecoms firms could be the big winners in a connected car market that may be worth $50 billion over the next decade, luring investors away from traditional automakers. Chip-makers or...

  • Should You Fear An All-Powerful Amazon.com?

    By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal Times

    When I think about Amazon.com’s business model these days, the image that springs immediately to mind – the one that I simply can’t shake – is that of Pac-Man eating his way through dot after dot on...

  • Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Are Dinosaurs: Entrepreneur

    By Emma Thomasson, Reuters

    The founder of Rocket Internet, the German venture capital company behind dozens of online start-ups, warned the retail industry on Thursday that e-commerce and smartphones would mean there will be...

  • Cyber Experts Wanted for U.S. Corporate Boards

    By Nadia Damouni, Reuters

    Some of the largest U.S. companies are looking to hire cybersecurity experts in newly elevated positions and bring technologists on to their boards, a sign that corporate America is increasingly...

  • Companies with U.S.-Oriented Revenue Lead in 1st Quarter

    By Ryan Vlastelica, Reuters

    Stock investors in the U.S. are finding the value of staying close to home. Even as the U.S. economy barely grew in early 2014, companies with a domestic orientation have on balance delivered better...