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...

Robots to Take 500,000 Human Jobs...for Now

By DANIEL HONAN

Tech companies are creating plenty of jobs for robots. Foxconn, the leading manufacturer of electronics in the world -- which makes Apples iPhones and iPads, among other products -- plans to build...
Kindle Fire Takes a Bite Out of Apple

By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal Times

Reviewers like "Captain Gadget" of the Huffington Post have dubbed Amazon’s (AMZN) newborn Kindle Fire a "tablet for dummies" when compared to Apple's (AAPL) iPad. After all, you get less battery...
Steve Jobs: 10 Revealing Quotes from His Biography

By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

As Walter Isaacson’s major new biography of Steve Jobs goes on sale today, The Fiscal Times looks at ten compelling quotes from the book – quotes by Steve Jobs about Steve Jobs, Apple, and the start...
The Apple Economy: An Insanely Great Year

By Yuval Rosenberg

Apple’s lineup of blockbuster products has propelled the company to its best year ever—and changed the world along the way.
How Apple Spawned the $7 Billion apps Market

By Jessica Ramirez, The Fiscal Times

Thanks largely to Apple, the market for apps has exploded in just three short years: There are now more than 425,000 apps an iPhone user can choose from. In the process, legions of new businesses...

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