Apple
Apple has taken a beating over the last five trading sessions, losing nearly 9% of its value – the worst performance since the fall. Profit-taking is the reason most people mention. But you have to ask: Why now?
Ashton Kutcher will maintain his youthful looks throughout much of the upcoming indie Steve Jobs movie.
The Apple II didn’t make headlines when it was unveiled in April, 1977. But it went on to change the world, as surely as any of the Apple products that followed it.
Thanks to the Internet, it’s never been easier to explore the world of Apple’s first blockbuster product, which was unveiled at a San Francisco computer show in April 1977.
Historic images from the early days of one of the most successful, influential consumer-electronics devices of all time.
Google might not exist today had dominant rivals like Facebook existed when Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin created the search powerhouse, says Brin.
I’m not naive enough to believe that if given options, consumers would abandon Amazon and Apple en masse and rush to independent e-bookshops. But the publishing industry certainly isn’t making it any easier for smaller companies to compete.
A Texas shell company says Apple and others have infringed on technology for basic smartphone gestures like dragging and “double tap.” The patents were issued in 2007 to a Taiwanese maker of touchpad technology.
A new video by American Public Media’s Marketplace program offers an “exclusive look at how an iPad is made.”
The Department of Justice complaint against Apple and five major publishing houses reads like a case study: A powerful, entrenched industry desperately tries to confront an economic disruption caused by the rise of a new technology, only to face charges of violating federal law.
Just like that, Apple is officially on the receiving end of a major antitrust lawsuit filed this morning by the U.S. Justice Department for alleged e-book price-fixing.
