The Apple Economy
  • Apple faithful line up for latest, larger iPhones

    How Apple Won Christmas 2014 — and the Year in Mobile

    Apple capped off a strong comeback year with a very merry Christmas. The iPhone 6 and other Apple smartphones and tablets accounted for 51.3 percent of all such devices activated in the week through...

  • North Korea Rips into U.S. for Internet Failures

    By Jack Kim, Reuters

    North Korea called U.S. President Barack Obama a "monkey" as it blamed Washington Saturday for Internet outages that it has experienced amid a confrontation with the United States over the hacking of...

  • In smartphone mass-market, Samsung, Apple have margins on their minds

    Why Mobile Retail Still Needs Fixing

    By Cadie Thompson, CNBC

    Mobile shopping may be all the rage these days, but consumers aren't entirely impressed. More than half of consumers say that retailers "inconsistently meet expectations" or only "meet expectations"...

  • The 9 Holiday Gifts Everyone Wants This Year

    By Benjamin Glaser, dealnews.com

    Lots of so-called experts put out lists of the "Top Gifts This Season," but DealNews has what puts everyone in the holiday spirit: cold, hard, quantitative data. Since an overwhelming number of...

  • The Robot Guard That Might Actually Prevent Crime

    By Michelle Fox, CNBC

    Meet Silicon Valley's newest crime fighter: the K5 robot. As the world grapples with the onset of drones and trembles at the increasing likelihood of sentient machines, a 300-pound machine is being...