Apple becomes first private-sector company to reach landmark $1 trillion valuation
Apple — the culture-changing company behind the iPod, iPhone and iPad — hit another milestone Thursday, becoming the first private-sector company to surpass $1 trillion in market value. Shares of Apple finished the formal Wall Street trading day at $207.39, topping the magic number two ...
Apple said Tuesday that its profit had jumped more than 30 percent to $11.5 billion in the recently ended quarter, besting market expectations despite selling fewer iPhones than analysts projected. The news boosted shares in the tech giant in after-hours trading, putting it ever closer ...
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Apple and Samsung end lengthy iPhone patent battle with undisclosed settlement
Apple and Samsung have ended a years-long patent battle over copied iPhone design with an undisclosed settlement, according to a U.S. court filing Tuesday. The world's two biggest smartphone makers reached a truce in their seven-year-old court battle a month after a federal court jury ...
Designed in California and made in China: How the iPhone skews the U.S. trade deficit
U.S. President Donald Trump often tweets from his iPhone about pressuring China to address its $375 billion trade surplus with the United States. But a closer look at the Apple smartphone reveals how the headline figure is distorted. The big trade imbalance — at the ...
How Samsung's new Galaxy S9 compares to the iPhone X
When Microsoft revealed a replacement to Windows 8, it skipped the number 9 and went straight to Windows 10. Apple's iPhone 8 was followed by the iPhone X (pronounced "ten"). But Samsung refused to follow: The successor to its Galaxy S8 is the Galaxy ...
Steven Soderbergh's thriller 'Unsane' shot on iPhone premieres in Berlin
Director Steven Soderbergh said on Wednesday he so enjoyed making his psychological thriller "Unsane" on an iPhone, he would find it hard to go back to conventional filmmaking. "Unsane," which premieres at the Berlin film festival, was shot over just two weeks — way shorter ...
Paris consumer protection group leads Apple probe over 'planned obsolescence'
Paris prosecutors have launched a probe of U.S. tech giant Apple Inc. over suspected "planned obsolescence" in some of its iPhone models, a judicial source said Monday. It comes after a complaint by the association Stop Planned Obsolescence (HOP or Halte a l'Obsolescence Programmee) ...
Murata Manufacturing Co., the exclusive supplier of foldable circuits for Apple Inc.'s new iPhone lineup, is boosting its capacity to build the components on the view that demand will increase next year. The company's MetroCirc circuit boards can be bent, making it easier to pack ...
How one Japan firm shifted its focus from steel plates to fancy phone screens
It calls itself a steel maker, but don't be misled by the name. Japan Steel Works Ltd. is no longer just the old-world metals firm that it started life as more than a century ago. These days, the Tokyo-based company is more a technology play, ...
Apple seen eying 2018 iPad revamp to add facial recognition, but OLED screen unlikely
Apple Inc. is working on a redesigned, high-end iPad for as early as 2018 that incorporates key iPhone X features such as slimmer edges and facial recognition, according to people familiar with the matter. However, the new version of the tablet is unlikely to include ...
