The Apple Economy
  • Apple’s App Store Bigger Than Hollywood Box Office

    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

    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...

  • Can Meg Whitman Save Hewlett-Packard?

    The latest PC sales numbers detail the challenges the broader industry faces, but they put struggling HP squarely in the spotlight.

  • Apple CEO Cook Apologizes for Maps Mess

    By POORNIMA GOOPTA, Reuters

    Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook apologized Friday to customers frustrated with glaring errors in its new Maps service, and, in an unusual move for the consumer giant, directed them to rival services...

  • Can RIM’s BlackBerry Dial Up a Comeback?

    By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal Times

    Research in Motion (RIMM) is broken and bleeding, but the carnage isn’t quite as bad as expected. RIM’s fiscal second-quarter loss wasn’t nearly as bad as analysts had forecast, but it would be...

  • Why Google's Stock Is at a Record High

    By Theweek.com, TheWeek.com

    With Facebook and Apple stumbling, Google's share price is on a tear, obliterating concerns that the search giant's best days are behind it.

  • Apple's iPhone 5 Announcement: 7 Things You Need to Know

    By Theweek.com, TheWeek.com

    On Thursday in San Francisco, CEO Tim Cook and a rotating cast of Apple executives raised the curtains on the latest addition to the i-family, the long-awaited iPhone 5. Does the new iPhone live up...