Apple’s in the top 10 for the first time ever, Facebook hits the list, and Dell sells more than Google as Fortune Magazine released its Fortune 500 companies today, ranking the top 500 companies by global income.
Notable this year …
There's a reason the rich get richer, and wealthy corporations get wealthier. They're smarter than the rest of us, and they have more financial tools at their disposal.
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Android may have wrestled massive smartphone market share away from Apple the past couple of years, but until now Apple's managed to hold onto its dominance in tablet sales. That's now changing, says IDC analyst Sameer Singh.
Apple is giving away a $10,000 App Store gift card to the lucky iOS user who downloads the 50 billionth app, plus a $500 gift card to the next 50 people to download an app.
There's no rule that says smartphones have to be boring rectangular-ish blocks. And Apple's latest patent application filings show the company may be looking at some new shapes in its future phones.
Guest Post While many companies promise to deploy two-factor authentication, it may not protect us as well as we hope.
You can't access Facebook in China. Twitter is unheard of. And Google … well, Google has left China, and China isn't exactly writing a Taylor Swift ex-boyfriend song about the world's largest search engine.
If you were hoping for massive changes in Apple's OS X 10.9 operating system, you may be disappointed when the company officially reveals it at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June.
Google Now is officially invading Siri's home turf.
Apple's messaging services deletes the last word of a few key phrases. One is "The best prize is a surprise," and another is "I could be the next Obama." The only catch?
In a global smartphone market that Android has been expanding at a breakneck pace, a bright spot for Apple has been increasing market share in the lucrative U.S. domestic market. A new report from the Yankee Group says that's going to continue, and that Apple is winning the slow way, via customer loyalty.
Last week I bought 13 laptops from WalMart.com. There were only two problems: I didn't buy them, and they weren't being shipped to my house. I'd been hacked.
Not only did the app's marketing pic showcase Twitter's current brand messaging around watching, getting, and reading, all of which are higher on the priority list than, God forbid, actually tweeting, but the app itself is designed for consumption, not creation.
All that just to see the new OS X and iOS? C'mon, y'all, Tim already said there won't be new hardware this time. What's the big fuss?
While the iOS app store has well over 800,000 active apps and Google Play sports more than 600,000, the Amazon app store has only about 75,000.
That's a very good thing -- if you're an app developer.
If you needed further evidence that tablets are more than a mere computing fad, just look at the latest numbers from Strategy Analytics.
The proceeds of the auction will benefit the RFK Center for Justice and Human Rights. Other notables and celebrities who are auctioning off experiences for the RFK Center include Elon Musk, Peyton Manning, Alec Baldwin, and Jay Leno.
Apple CEO Tim Cook is auctioning off a coffee date with him that will last up to an hour via CharityBuzz, a company that asks notable people to auction their time off for a good cause.
Can an endless runner for smartphones have an important message?
