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Investors shrug, once again, at Apple’s latest deluge of product news
We've kept this mini-series running at TechCrunch for all this time to make a meta-point about share prices and products.
Apple adds the battery percentage icon back in the latest iOS beta
Apple is on the cusp of introducing a tiny change with an outsized impact on the quality of life of iPhone users everywhere who are tired of helplessly watching as the life trickles out of their devic
Box CEO Aaron Levie on where web3 doesn’t make sense
It’s been a rough week for the crypto community as top tokens have seen massive selloffs, pushing some in the space to double down while leaving others to take stock off how the industry got to
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Apple’s iPadOS 15 breaks the app barrier
The announcement of new iPad software at this year’s WWDC conference had an abnormally large expectation hung on it. The iPad lineup, especially the larger iPad Pro, has kept up an impressively fran
Apple discontinues original HomePod, will focus on mini
Apple has discontinued its original HomePod after four years. It says that it will continue to produce and focus on the HomePod mini, introduced last year. The larger HomePod offered a beefier sound s
Elon Musk claims he tried selling Tesla to Apple but Tim Cook wasn’t interested
Tesla stock’s miraculously bizarre 2020 might have a gone different way had Apple’s Tim Cook agreed to a meeting in recent years, or so says Elon Musk. Reacting to Reuters’ recent ne
Apple search crawler activity could signal a Google competitor, or a bid to make Siri a one-stop shop
Encouraged by the spate of antitrust activity brewing in both the Justice Department and on Capitol Hill, Apple may be developing a search competitor to Google, according to a report in the Financial
Via is launching an on-demand public transit network in the city of Cupertino
Shuttle startup Via and the city of Cupertino are launching an on-demand public transportation network, the latest example of municipalities trying out alternatives to traditional buses. The aim is fo
Apple snuck a Raptors tribute into its Canadian home page
The Toronto Raptors won the 2019 NBA Championship last night, which is probably not news to you if you’re A) Canadian (like me) or B) a basketball fan. But unless you’re starting your Frid
Week-in-Review: The iPhone fades and SpaceX confirms an explosion
After a dozen years of riding high, the iPhone is showing signs of weakness in a struggling smartphone market where Apple is still managing to be the biggest loser. Here’s a snapshot of where th
Naspers-owned PayU doubles down on India with $70M deal to buy Wibmo
PayU, the Naspers-owned payments company that competes with the likes of PayPal but focuses mainly on emerging markets, has made an acquisition to expand its business in India. It has acquired Wibmo,
Apple plans major US expansion, including a new $1 billion campus in Austin
Apple has announced a major expansion that will see it open a new campus in North Austin and new offices in Seattle, San Diego and Los Angeles as it bids to increase its workforce in the U.S. The firm
Fitbit stock sinking following Apple Watch announcement
Apple announced its latest and greatest Apple Watch in Cupertino today — The Apple Watch Series 4. Fitbit (NYSE: FIT) stock sank as a result. Right now it’s down more than 6 percent and
For Apple, this year’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day is all about education
Following Apple’s education event in Chicago in March, I wrote about what the company’s announcements might mean for accessibility. After sitting in the audience covering the event, the big takea
Apple’s 2019 Mac Pro will be shaped by workflows
A year ago, I visited the Apple campus in Cupertino to figure out where the hell the new Mac Pro was. I joined a round-table discussion with Apple SVPs and a handful of reporters to get the skinny on
iPhone X’s Face ID raises security and privacy questions
Offering to gate the smorgasbord of personal content that lives on a mobile device behind a face biometric inevitably raises lots of security questions, even as always on face-scanning tech being hous
Apple CFO Oppenheimer Says New Carbon-Balanced ‘Campus 2’ Will Foster Collaboration
“We can’t wait to get our people closer together, we’re a very collaborative company. One of the beauties of Apple Campus 2 is that it will be walkable. It will be great for us to in
Apple’s ‘Spaceship’ Campus Budget Reportedly Balloons To $5B, Will Look To Cut $1B Before Proceeding
Apple's massive new spaceship-style headquarters in Cupertino is not on-budget or on schedule, according to a new report at Bloomberg Businessweek. The article provides an inside look at what exactly
Apple’s Spaceship Campus Faces Delay, Won’t Take Off Until 2016
Apple's ambitious new second campus, which looks like a spaceship design straight out of Hollywood, is being delayed according to new info from Bloomberg. The huge circular new headquarters won't be f