China scrubs Apple's iPad and MacBooks from government buying list
China's government, which banned Windows 8 from agencies' computers, has now dropped Apple's notebooks and tablets from an approved list of purchases.
China's government, which banned Windows 8 from agencies' computers, has now dropped Apple's notebooks and tablets from an approved list of purchases.
Apple likely sold more Macs than it did in the same quarter last year, keeping its better-than-the-industry sales pace going.
Apple's chief of Internet software and services, Eddy Cue, has put himself up on the charity auction block.
Apple's move to buy headphone maker and streaming music service Beats Electronics brought its acquisitive ways -- started after the death of founder Steve Jobs -- to the forefront.
It looks like Apple will trumpet its entry into the home automation market next week at its annual developers conference.
A lunch date with Apple CEO Tim Cook went for $330,000 yesterday in an online charity auction -- a little more than half what someone paid last year for a 30-minute coffee break with him.
Apple awarded new retail chief Angela Ahrendts stock grants that, if fully vested, would be worth as much as $78.5 million at Monday's closing price, according to SEC filings.
Apple on Wednesday conceded that it sold 16% fewer iPads in the March quarter than in the same period last year, fulfilling analysts' expectations -- in spades -- that iPad sales have slowed.
Apple on Wednesday said it sold 4.1 million Macs in the March quarter, growing sales during a period when the personal computer industry overall continued to contract.
Even as Apple CEO Tim Cook is blasted by some investors for not being the next Steve Jobs, the company's employees boosted his approval rating to the 17th spot on an annual ranking of the top U.S. chief executives.
Microsoft said that it would launch a new version of Office for Mac before the end of the year, but won't discuss details until the second half of 2014.
Apple's chief financial officer, Peter Oppenheimer, a long-familiar voice to Wall Street on the company's quarterly earnings calls, will retire at the end of September.
Apple has been appointed the world's highest-valued brand by Brand Finance, which said the company's brand is worth nearly $US105 billion.
Apple is gearing up to launch a revamped Apple TV, but will not push into the television market this year, as many assumed.
Investment agitator and former corporate raider Carl Icahn today ended his fight to get Apple to boost its share buyback program by another $50 billion after an influential proxy advisory service nixed the idea.