The Apple Economy

Will the Nasdaq Surge End in Another Tech Wreck?

By Anthony Mirhaydari

It's feeling like 1999 again. The Clintons are in the headlines. Everyone is enamored with new technologies (VR, autonomous vehicles, robotics). And the sluggish pace of rate hikes from the Federal...
How Apple Could Put Your Favorite Website Out of Business

By Andrew Lumby

For media companies and other businesses that rely on web advertising for income, ad-blocking has long been a scourge that threatens their livelihood. Thankfully for them, though, ad-blockers such as...
Here’s What Will Rock the Stock Market Next

By Patti Domm, CNBC

Earnings season may not give investors that warm and fuzzy feeling this quarter. For the first time in six years, earnings are in a real decline, expected to be negative with a 2.9 percent drop in S...
The Pros and Cons of Holding Large Stakes in Apple

By David Randall, Reuters

At more than 15 percent of his fund's assets, John Burnham, manager of the $136 million Burnham Fund, has a larger stake in Apple Inc than any other diversified fund. "I think they are doing...
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...

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—...
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...
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 Hospice Industry’s Frightening New Failure

By Peter Whoriskey and Dan Keating, The Washington Post

TAMPA — The 85-year-old hospice patient was close to death. Ying Tai Choi lay on a hospital bed arranged in the living room of her daughter’s house. A pulse oximeter pinged an intermittent warning...
Silicon Valley Conspiracy: When Apple and Google Get Together, Watch Out

By John Grgurich, The Fiscal Times

“If you hire a single one of these people, that means war.” Apple CEO Steve Jobs sent that warning to Google co-founder Sergey Brin in an email back in 2005, when Jobs found out that Brin was trying...
Apple Stock Suddenly Looks Juicier

By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal Times

Apparently, an apple sliced seven ways tastes all the juicier to some folks. At least it does when it’s a share of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), and the proposed one-for-seven stock split will bring the cost...
Is Wearable Tech Already Going Out Of Fashion?

By John Grgurich, The Fiscal Times

It feels like wearable fitness technology just got here, but one company expected to be a dominant player in this mash-up field of high-tech and style has already decided to desert the fashion runway.
King of the Streamers? HBO and Amazon Team Up to Challenge Netflix

By Josh Herr

in the same week that Netflix announces a subscriber price increase, Amazon Prime announces the acquisition of television’s most coveted library. The war for King of the Streamers looked to have been...

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