The chief executive of Taiwan’s technology giant Foxconn has confirmed his company is considering setting up a new plant in the United States. Terry Gou told reporters the investment might exceed $7bn (£5.7bn). The investment by a major supplier of Apple Inc would be likely to generate thousands of jobs, if it goes ahead. The … Read more
The chief executive of Taiwan’s technology giant Foxconn has confirmed his company is considering setting up a new plant in the United States. The investment by a major supplier of Apple Inc would be likely to generate thousands of jobs, if it goes ahead. The plans come after US President Donald Trump confirmed his “America … Read more
Apple Inc filed a $1 billion lawsuit against supplier Qualcomm Inc on Friday, days after the U. S. government accused the chip maker of resorting to anticompetitive tactics to maintain a monopoly over key semiconductors in mobile phones. Qualcomm is a major supplier to both Apple and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd for “modem” chips that … Read more
Apple is to put up the price it charges for apps in the UK, India and Turkey. UK costs will numerically match those of the US, meaning that a program that costs $0.99 will now be 99p. That represents a 25% rise over the previous currency conversion, which was 79p. “Price tiers on the App … Read more
Is Apple’s App Store a mall or the equivalent of a sole proprietor shop selling unique wares? That question appears to be at the heart of a now revived lawsuit against Apple, Pepper et al v. Apple Inc. In it, a group of plaintiffs claim that Apple’s insistence on selling all iPhone apps through the … Read more
Alibaba Group Holding, which is awaiting regulatory approval for a $45 million fund it is participating in, has promised the Taiwanese government it will not take board seats at local firms the fund invests in, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said. The fund is being raised by China Development Financial Holding (CDF), … Read more
“Steve had expressly told me it was totally top secret. He said he was going to fire anyone who tells the world. Tony Fadell was pondering just how he was going to explain to Steve Jobs that he’d lost the prototype of what would become the most successful technology product of all time, the Apple … Read more
Ten years ago I was running from San Francisco’s Moscone Centre to a nearby hotel to edit a piece for the Ten O’Clock News when my phone rang. Those were the days, by the way, when phones were for making calls but all that was about to change. “Have you got your hands on this … Read more
Apple chief executive Tim Cook saw his salary and bonus slide in the last financial year, but his income from the sale of shares jumped dramatically. Mr Cook was paid $8.75m (£7.1m) in salary and bonus in 2016, down from $10.3m the previous year. All Apple’s named executives saw their salary and bonus payments fall … Read more
Apple Inc (AAPL. O) said on Thursday its App Store generated $20 billion for developers in 2016, a 40 percent increase from 2015, helped by the popularity of games such as Pokemon Go and Super Mario Run and increased revenue from subscriptions. App Store sales topped more than $3 billion in December, helped by the … Read more
Apple has withdrawn the New York Times from its China App Store, following a request from Chinese authorities. The paper said the move was aimed at preventing readers in China “from accessing independent news coverage”. Apple said they had been informed the app violated Chinese regulations but did not say what rules had been broken. … Read more
Apple Inc has removed the New York Times Co’s news apps from its app store in China, following a request from the Chinese authorities. Apple removed both the English-language and Chinese-language apps from the iTunes store in China on Dec. 23, according to the New York Times, which first reported the action. “The request by … Read more
An American couple, whose daughter was killed by a driver allegedly using FaceTime on his iPhone, have launched a lawsuit against Apple. The lawsuit alleges that the firm should have introduced a feature that disabled use of the video-chat application while driving. It points to a patent for a such feature for drivers filed by … Read more
Nokia Corp (NOKIA. HE) said on Wednesday it had filed a number of lawsuits against Apple Inc (AAPL.O) for violating 32 technology patents, striking back at the iPhone maker’s legal action targeting the one-time cellphone industry leader a day earlier. Nokia’s lawsuits, filed in courts in Dusseldorf, Mannheim and Munich, Germany, and the U.S. District … Read more
Nintendo Co Ltd’s (7974. T) first Mario smartphone title has set a download record but gamers baulked at the one-time cost of unlocking content, prompting investors to push the Japanese game makers’ stock to a one-month low. Super Mario Run hit 25 million downloads just four days after its Dec. 15 release in 151 countries … Read more
Apple Inc is in talks with India’s government to explore making products locally, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, as the U. S. firm aims to make deeper inroads in the world’s second-largest mobile phone market by users. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is trying to boost technology manufacturing in the country through his ‘Make … Read more
Apple has filed an appeal against a European Union ruling that it should pay up to €13bn (£11bn) in back taxes in the Republic of Ireland. In August, the EU ruled Apple’s tax arrangements in Ireland were illegal, and demanded the record penalty. The tech giant says it has been singled out and was “a … Read more
Apple has said customers who lose one of the new wireless Airpod earphones will be charged £65 for a replacement. The devices went on sale via Apple’s website this week and a pair costs £159 in the UK. They are sold with a charging case and connect to Apple devices such as iPhones and Macs … Read more
Apple Inc has committed to invest around $44 million in a research and development center in Indonesia over the next three years, a senior government official said, enabling it to start selling its latest iPhone 7 in the Southeast Asian nation. Indonesia, a promising smartphone market where Apple has trailed some rivals, has stipulated that … Read more
The U. S. Supreme Court told a lower court to take another look at a $399 million award won by Apple Inc. from rival Samsung Electronics Co. for copying the design of the iPhone. The unanimous decision extends a legal battle that dates back to 2011 and at one point spanned the globe and engulfed … Read more