There’s no one right way to generate hype. With upcoming products, some companies roll out flashy ads for months before a release. Some bank on media product placement or celebrity endorsement, some take it as an opportunity to experiment, while others keep every detail under...
One of Apple’s patent applications for a biometrics reader using fingerprints that would be used in future iPhone models has been approved by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. This brings users one step closer to auto-authentication when making purchases with their iPhones. According to 9to5Mac, Apple...
Apple Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri told investors at a Goldman Sachs conference last week that Apple is investing research and development dollars to improve products that don’t generate any sales for Apple but could down the road. According to a report, which cited the comments...
Apple stock closed at an all-time high on Monday (Feb. 13), right after Goldman Sachs raised its price target on the stock and UBS released a report saying that, if Apple’s services were properly weighted, the company’s stock would be at least 10 percent higher...
In the race to be the sleekest smartphone with seemingly endless capabilities, it’s no wonder we’re starting to hear about the upcoming release of the Apple iPhone 8. Although there has not been an official release date shared with the public yet, many are clamoring...
In the latest bit of Apple Pay expansion news, Macquarie Group and ING Direct have announced that they will start using Apple Pay in Australia this month. Apple Pay has had something of a bumpy lift off down under — only one major Australian bank, Australia...
History has a tendency of repeating itself in payments — though luckily, things in this space move fast and attention spans are often fairly short, so mostly we don’t notice. Take Apple and Square, for example. It was almost exactly three years ago that the...
Looks like Apple is getting ready to get free of the folks at Intel. Reports emerging indicate that Cupertino is working on the design of a new Mac laptop chip that would take on more of the functionality currently handled by Intel Corp. processors. The chip...
“There’s a lot to feel great about.” Such began Apple CEO Tim Cook’s remarks on Apple’s latest round of earnings. Now in fairness, Tim Cook feels pretty great about all of Apple’s earnings reports — but his latest, released yesterday, has the distinction of being...
