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...

Apple and Samsung: New Cooperation Could Pay Off

By Reuters

Apple and Samsung are not engaged in a corporate death match so much as a multi-layered rivalry that is by turns both friendly and hard-edged. For competitors like Nokia, BlackBerry, Sony, HTC and...
iPhone Index: The World’s Most Expensive Cities

By Yuval Rosenberg

Tokyo has regained its title as the world’s most expensive city in an annual cost-of-living survey released last week by the Economist Intelligence Unit. But what does that dubious distinction really...
14 Things We Learned from Facebook’s Earnings Call

By Nancy Miller, The Fiscal Times

Whatever you think of Facebook and the fourth quarter earnings it released Wednesday, remember this: Facebook is m-o-b-i-l-e. In a conference call with analysts last night, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and...
Will BlackBerry 10 Be Enough to Save RIM?

By Yuval Rosenberg

The answer will be determined by how the company’s new operating system, set to be formally introduced next week, is received over the coming months.
Irrational Pessimism Eats Away at Apple Stock

By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal Times

What’s happening with Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) right now – the general visceral aversion to the company’s shares – is almost irrational enough to end up in the next edition of the medical textbook used...

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