Apple reported its second quarter 2013 results today, with revenue of $43.6 billion and income of $10.09 per share. Analysts had expected revenue of $42.5 billion and income of $10 billion. Apple's guidance had been between $41 and $43 billion.
Corporations have found a way to roll back the web's decades-long openness. One of of the most successful? Apple, whose quarterly earnings report lands later today.
iPad is still the king of the tablet browsing platforms. But the king is not quite as kingly as he used to be.
Apple stock has jumped more than $18 since yesterday, adding $17 billion in stock market capitalization to the company's value in the last 24 hours.
Apple iCloud services for identity, Game Center, account creation and sign-in, iTunes store purchases are experiencing service failures this morning for some users, Apple says on its system status page.
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Apple made the announcement on its Chinese home page today, along with a message of condolence, saying that "our hearts are with the victims of the Sichuan earthquake," and that Apple employees in the area would be on stand-by to help out with disaster relief efforts.
Apple has won the lawsuit that Google division Motorola brought against it in summer 2012. The lawsuit, if successful, could have resulted in an import ban of iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches.
"iPhone 5 sales have failed to impress. There's been a lack of innovation over the past few years to come up with the next great device, and consumers have filed to see any differentiation. Samsung has captured the market."
A 1,713-strong survey of North American consumers says that 19 percent of us want a shiny new iDevice that doesn't even exist yet. Or, at least, isn't public and isn't purchasable.
In case it wasn't already clear, Siri is bad news if you're concerned with data security.
Chinese "app store" 7659.com is using Apple's own bulk enterprise licensing system to distributed pirated apps to Chinese iPhone and iPad users, completely free.
Here's a shocker. According to recent reports, the iPad 5 will be 15 percent thinner and 25 percent lighter than the current model.
There's a reason that even though Android has almost caught up to iOS in downloads, it's still way behind in monetization.
Case manufacturer Tactus has published a photo that is allegedly Apple's new budget iPhone, a plastic-backed larger-screen iPhone that will reportedly retail for about $300.
The new drop means that Apple is now more than $300/share down from its high point in September, when the company was worth over $650 billion.
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Cue all kinds of Facebook social graph mapping jokes.
Google Play is quickly catching up to Apple's App Store, both in download numbers and in revenue.
Facebook is bringing Chat Heads to iOS -- only it won't be be nearly as powerful on iOS as it is for Android.
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