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  • Apple iPhone 6

    Inside Apple's Billion-Dollar Business Fixing Cracked iPhone Screens

    By Stephen Nellis, Reuters

    Hey Siri, where can I get my cracked iPhone screen fixed? Apple Inc customers will soon have more choices as the company looks to reduce long wait times for iPhone repairs at its retail stores...

  • Is Apple Now Focused on Something Bigger Than a Car?

    By Jim Edwards, Business Insider

    Apple is behaving in a really strange way regarding the mythical "Apple Car." After hiring 1,000 people to work on a secret program called Project Titan, which many believed to be the development of...

  • Pedestrians walk past the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York's Times Square in this June 4, 2012 file photo. REUTERS/Eric Thayer/Files

    Will the Nasdaq Surge End in Another Tech Wreck?

    By Anthony Mirhaydari

    It's feeling like 1999 again. The Clintons are in the headlines. Everyone is enamored with new technologies (VR, autonomous vehicles, robotics). And the sluggish pace of rate hikes from the Federal...

  • Tim Cook discusses the iPhone 7 during an Apple media event in San Francisco

    iPhone7: Why Apple Could Be Making a Huge Mistake

    By Josh Herr

    For over a decade now the September announcement from Apple has reliably set off a media circus. As iPhones, iPods and iPads all became a regular part of our day-to-day lives, these unveiling events...

  • The New ‘Tracking Excavator’ Proves How Your Privacy Is Violated Online

    By James Urton

    For more than two decades, people have used the internet to research, shop, make friends, find dates, and learn about the world. And third parties have been watching—and learning. When you open a...

  • An Apple iphone 6 with Apple Pay is shown in this photo illustration in Encinitas , California June 3, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Blake

    PayPal Is Winning the Mobile Payment Wars, but Apple Has This One Advantage

    By Beth Braverman

    While pundits have been promising for years that we’ll soon be able to leave our wallets at home and pay for everything via our cell phones, mass adoption of mobile, digital payment systems hasn’t...

  • Phil Schiller, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at Apple Inc, discusses the audio features of the iPhone7 during a media event in San Francisco, California, U.S. September 7, 2016.  REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach

    Apple Is Making a Big Change to Its iPhone Design Cycle

    By Kif Leswing , Business Insider

    The new iPhone coming out this fall is going to look a lot like the iPhones currently on sale. Apple is moving away from its traditional two-year upgrade cycle, in which a complete redesign of the...

  • Phil Schiller, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at Apple Inc, discusses the audio features of the iPhone7 during a media event in San Francisco, California, U.S. September 7, 2016.  REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach

    What if Apple Made iPhones in the US? Here’s How Much You’d Pay

    By Beth Braverman

    Among his many campaign promises, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said that he would get Apple to start manufacturing its phones and computers in the United States...

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks at the WSJD Live conference in Laguna Beach, California October 27, 2014.  REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

    5 Reasons Apple Invested $1 Billion in the Uber of China

    By Kif Leswing , Business Insider

    Apple announced on Thursday that it had invested $1 billion in Didi Chuxing, the leading ride-hailing service in China. It was a surprise for a number of reasons. A billion dollars is a lot of money...

  • Phil Schiller, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at Apple Inc, discusses the audio features of the iPhone7 during a media event in San Francisco, California, U.S. September 7, 2016.  REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach

    The End of an Era for Apple and the iPhone

    By Julia Love and Anya George Tharakan, Reuters

    Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Tuesday reported quarterly results below Wall Street targets and forecast another disappointing quarter, while sales of iPhones, its most important product, declined for the...

  • Introducing the iPhone 6, Made in China by a Robot

    By Reilly Dowd, The Fiscal Times

    Foxconn parent company Hon Hai is set to deploy 10,000 assembly-line robots to help meet the demands of producing the iPhone 6, which is expected to be released in September.

  • How Michael Jordan Made His $1 Billion

    By Phil Terrigno, The Fiscal Times

    It’s a well-known story in sports lore: After Hakeem Olajuwon was taken first in the 1984 NBA draft, the Portland Trail Blazers selected Sam Bowie next. The player they left waiting on the board?...

  • Mobile Gaming Will Be a $29 Billion Market by 2016

    By Andrew Lumby

    It’s sometimes hard to believe that when you’re swiping away at “Candy Crush Saga” or tapping away at “Flappy Bird,” you’re contributing to an industry that rakes in almost $21 billion a year. But it...

  • The Latest Inflation Worry Is, As Usual, Overblown

    By Mark Thoma

    Worries about inflation have been pervasive ever since the Fed began trying to lift the economy out of recession. If the Fed does not tighten policy very soon we have been told repeatedly, an...

  • Seattle -- Starbucks's corporate home, founded over 40 years ago -- has the most coffee shops per capita in the U.S., about 35 shops per 100,000 people. Americans down some 450 million cups of coffee a day, which adds up to 150-plus cups a year. No wonder

    Starbucks’ New Blend: College Education for Baristas

    By Brianna Ehley, The Fiscal Times

    Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced today that the beverage behemoth will begin offering the equivalent of two years of college classes at Arizona State University’s online studies program this...

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