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...

  • Is the Apple Bubble Ready to Pop?

    By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal Times

    The manic swings in Apple (AAPL) shares lately are leaving investors reeling. Down $17, down $25, up $30, down $21. Even for a stock that’s seesawing around $600 a share, those point swings have been...

  • What’s Really Behind Wall Street’s Recent Swings

    By Yuval Rosenberg

    On Wall Street, sentiment can – and does – swing just this quickly. After a string of five down days sucked some of the air out of the market last week and resulted in the worst weekly loss of the...

  • Scrutiny and Lawsuits Nibble Away at Apple

    By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal Times

    It’s almost impossible to take a bite out of Apple’s (AAPL) success right now – nothing seems able to stop iPhone sales or quench the insatiable demand for the new iPads. That said, there’s a lot of...

  • Wall Street Falls on Energy, Materials

    By Caroline Valetkevitch, Reuters

    Stocks fell on Wednesday, putting the S&P 500 on track for its worst day in about three weeks, as sliding oil and metals prices gave investors a reason to sell commodity-related shares. A weaker-...

  • iChildren: How Apple Is Changing Kids’ Brains

    By Julie Halpert, The Fiscal Times

    For better or worse, the growing use of Apple products have affected how children develop, learn and interact with others. Are we creating a nation of innovative thinkers? Or tech-obsessed drones?