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Berkshire’s Billion-Dollar Bet On Apple
May 17, 2016

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has officially taken a stake worth more than $1 billion in Apple as of March 31, according to a regulatory filing. According to the filing, Berkshire owns 9.81 million in Apple Shares (worth $1.07 billion), which is noteworthy for a Buffett...

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What Tim Cook’s China Visit Has To Do With Driverless Cars
May 16, 2016

After a disappointing run of earnings that showed a severely anemic performance in China last quarter, Apple’s announcement last week that it was buying a billion dollar share in a Chinese ride-sharing app currently in a far east turf war in Asia seemed like something...

Apple Stock Hits Two-Year Low As iPhone Woes Continue
May 13, 2016

What’s happening to Apple’s stock is what no iPhone user ever wants to see happen to their device: dropping. Reuters reported that, yesterday (May 12), the tech giant’s share price fell below $90 for the first time since 2014. (While the price did close out...

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How Apple Can Reverse Their Revenue Curse
May 09, 2016

Not many companies can lay claim to losing as much value in 12 months as the entire market cap of the world’s largest retailer and still remain standing. But that’s exactly what’s happened to Apple over the last 12 months. Apple has subtracted $234 billion from...

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Tim Cook’s Plan To Win Over China’s Leaders
May 09, 2016

The leader of tech giant Apple is planning to visit China later this month, with the aim of meeting with highly placed officials in the country’s government, as the firm is “facing setbacks” in its biggest market outside the United States, The Guardian reported on...

Apple’s Online Retail VP Exits
May 09, 2016

The Apple vice president who was spearheading the tech juggernaut’s online retail business has left the firm, several news outlets noted on Friday (May 6). 9to5Mac reported that Bob Kupbens has left to take on an unidentified position at another firm. This would mark the end of...

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Tim Cook Takes To CNBC To Defend Apple’s Performance
May 03, 2016

Apple CEO Tim Cook is taking his show on the road — mostly to defend Apple against the ever louder chorus of naysayers that have emerged since Apple dropped a dismal earnings report last week. “I think that is a huge overreaction. Look, we just...

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PYMNTS Daily Data Dive: Apple’s Alarm Bells
May 02, 2016

While everyone knows that the Apple figures that came out last week were something of a miss, a closer, deeper look confirms that the whiff was likely much bigger than Apple is taking credit for. The misses on the iPhone and worries on Apple’s Chinese...

Why Apple Won’t Give Us Real Numbers
May 02, 2016

If last week wasn’t a wake-up call that there’s something amiss in Cupertino, I don’t know what is. I’m not talking about the fact that Apple’s Chinese love fest seems to be on the rocks or that iPhone sales tanked. Nope. It’s the fact that Apple can’t...