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...

  • Guess How Much Money Warren Buffett Made in 2013?

    By Beth Braverman

    The new winners of the latest Mega Millions Jackpot have nothing on Warren Buffett. The Oracle of Omaha pulled in $12.7 billion in the first 344 days of 2013, for a total net worth of $59.1 billion...

  • The Newborn-to-Toddler Apptivity Seat for iPad

    Newborn Tech Seat Draws Advocacy Anger

    By Daniel Lovering, Reuters

    An advocacy group called on toy maker Fisher-Price to stop selling a baby seat designed to hold an iPad at the front, saying the product encourages parents to leave infants alone to watch screens...

  • Small Business Saturday: AmEx Marketing Ploy?

    By Diana Ransom, Inc.com

    American Express's Small Business Saturday campaign is an obvious win for Main Street, but is the company's own bottom-line boost getting in the way? Since its launch in 2010, Small Business Saturday...

  • Yellen Sails Through Senate Banking Committee

    By Alister Bull and Margaret Chadbourn, Reuters

    The Senate Banking Committee on Thursday approved Janet Yellen's nomination to become the first woman to lead the Federal Reserve, sending it to the full Senate for a final vote. If she is confirmed...

  • Guess What Bugs Your Coworkers the Most?

    By Futurity Org, Futurity

    People’s tolerance for texting and smartphone use at work varies according to gender, region, and age. Published in Business Communication Quarterly , the research offers a critical baseline for how...