The Apple Economy

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...
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...
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...

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...
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...
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...
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...
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...

How Amazon, Apple and Google are Stomping Out Competition in the U.S. Economy

By Ryan Cooper, TheWeek.com

One of the great glories of capitalism, according to conventional wisdom, is that of competition. In a free market, firms will compete to provide goods and services based on price or quality, and...
Why Daily Fantasy Sports Games Are for Suckers

By Drake Baer, Business Insider

If you watched some NFL football over the weekend, you were probably inundated with ads for DraftKings and FanDuel. Each spent over an estimated $10 million on TV advertising in the first week of...
How Apple Could Put Your Favorite Website Out of Business

By Andrew Lumby

For media companies and other businesses that rely on web advertising for income, ad-blocking has long been a scourge that threatens their livelihood. Thankfully for them, though, ad-blockers such as...
Should Apple’s TV Announcement Make Netflix Investors Nervous?

By Millie Dent

Apple is holding its annual September product announcement event today, and it’s rumored that the big news, besides updates to the iPhone lineup, will be an upgraded Apple TV set-top box. Apple TV...
China Stock Collapse Spreads Panic Selling Worldwide

By Marc Jones, Reuters

The near 9 percent slump in Chinese stocks was their worst performance since the depths of the global financial crisis in 2007 and wiped out what was left of the 2015 gains, which in June has been...

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