Apple wins billion dollar competition trial over rival music on iTunes December 16, 2014 Apple has won a billion pound court lawsuit after a US jury found updates to its iTunes service in 2006 weren't intended to kill rivals' music. Eight Jurors took just hours to find that Apple's iTunes 7.0, which had been released in late 2006, was a genuine product improvement meaning it could not be in [...]
Apple antitrust case on brink of collapse December 6, 2014 An anti-trust lawsuit brought against tech giant Apple could soon fall apart thanks to last-minute objections raised by the company's lawyers. The case is to decide whether Apple misused its position in the digital music market between 2006 and March 2009. Apple used software that meant only music bought from iTunes could be played the [...]
$35bn got wiped off Apple’s value today and no one knows why December 1, 2014 Apple shares experienced their largest fall in three months during one minute this morning, with a huge, mysterious spike in volume. Shares opened at $118.80 at 9.30am EST, before suddenly experiencing a one-minute rush at 9.51am, with 6.7 million shares traded. During that minute, shares lost more than three per cent, and eventually fell as [...]
Apple’s $700bn smash, Black Friday misery: 10 things we learned this week November 28, 2014 1. In the future, cats will change colour when they go near radiation (maybe). Someone’s already written a nursery rhyme about it 2. Londoners take “painting the town red” rather more literally than you might think: by a vast majority, they prefer red wine to any other type, reckons Naked Wines 3. Aviva [...]
Apple joins the $700bn club… on its own November 25, 2014 TECH giant Apple, the world’s most valuable business, is the first company to be valued at $700bn (£446bn) after its share price rose one per cent in New York. The iPhone maker’s worth is now higher than the GDP of all but the top 19 countries in the world.
Apple to take on Spotify by integrating Beats streaming service into every iPhone and iPad November 19, 2014 Apple will start integrating the Beats music subscription service into every iOS device early next year, as the battle for music streaming supremacy intensifies. The paid-for Beats service will be introduced to iPads and iPhones in an iOS update that could take place as early as next March, according to the Financial Times. [...]
Apple Watch apps: Instagram, ESPN and American Airlines sign up to developer tool November 18, 2014 Apple wants developers to start building apps for its forthcoming Apple Watch – and it is providing them with the tools to do it. WatchKit is a piece of software that gives developers the tools to create apps before the smartwatch becomes available. The standard Apple Watch is set to start at retail a [...]
Apple is now worth more than the entire Russian stock market November 14, 2014 An interesting viewpoint from Bloomberg this afternoon, whose chart of the day shows how Apple is now bigger than the whole of the Russian stock market. (Source: Bloomberg) Thanks to various factors, including sliding oil prices and sanctions from Western economies against Russian companies, the value of Russian shares has fallen $234bn (£150bn) this year, reckons Bloomberg. [...]
Apple design chief Sir Jony Ive had fun with Lily Allen and Daisy Lowe at Sushi Samba anniversary party November 11, 2014 Apple’s notoriously quiet design chief Sir Jony Ive may have only been back in the UK for a few days, but he took time to rub shoulders with the likes of Lily Allen and Daisy Lowe at Sushi Samba’s second anniversary party last night. Ive and PR guru Matthew Freud propped up the bar [...]
Apple’s missing iMessage headache continues as tech giant forced to face class action lawsuit November 11, 2014 Apple has been forced to face a US federal lawsuit which claims the tech company failed to inform its customers that their messages could be blocked if they switched to Android phones. A class action lawsuit was brought against the tech giant in May by Californian Adrienne Moore, who alleged that Apple had interfered [...]