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10 companies (or countries) Apple could acquire instead of buying back all...
“Fourteen billion dollars. For some countries, that exceeds the annual GDP, dwarfing the value of all goods and services produced over the course of an entire year,” Marcus Wohlsen writes for Wired....
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Jawbone is now the startup Apple should fear most
“Jawbone is ascending into the top echelon of tech startups, joining the likes of Uber, Dropbox, and Square,” Marcus Wohlsen writes for Wired. “But unlike these other rising stars, which are...
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iPhone parking apps fuel more class envy rage in San Francisco
“For traffic-snarled San Francisco, an app that allowed drivers to auction off their street parking spaces to the highest bidder seemed a natural fit for a city on the cutting edge of technology and...
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Uber poaches Apple Maps senior engineer
“Uber has poached Chris Blumenberg, a senior engineering manager who worked on Apple Maps, according to three people familiar with the move,” Jessica E. Lessin reports for The Information. “Blumenberg...
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Ex-Obama press secretary Jay Carney in running to be Apple’s next PR chief
“A new report from Re/code today suggests that Apple is currently considering hiring… Jay Carney as its new head of PR,” Mike Beasley reports for 9to5Mac. “Carney worked as White House Press Secretary...
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Jim Dalrymple: ‘Nope’ on Jay Carney for Apple PR boss report
About the rumor (via Re/code) that ex-Obama press secretary Jay Carney is in running to be Apple’s next PR chief, the well-connected Jim Dalrymple says: Nope. Tim Cook has never even met Jay Carney....
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Why the aptly named Carney would flop at Apple
“The strict dictionary definition of a ‘carney’ (or a ‘carny’) denotes someone who works in a carnival. The more common, if utterly pejorative, usage centers on someone who tries to con innocent...
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To understand why Apple bought Beats, you need to understand Lady Gaga
“Headphone sales? Music streaming service? Wearables? Music label deals? None of the current Beats products look as a credible reason for a deal of that size. Something much bigger is going on,”...
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PayPal co-founder: When it comes to tech, U.S. federal government is in the...
“Investor Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies Inc., said the U.S. government is ‘in the Middle Ages’ when it comes to technology and science, impeding progress in Silicon...
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Silicon Valley’s Bill Gurley: Apple should have bought Waze and Nest
“Apple Inc. should have bought mobile-mapping application developer Waze Ltd. at any cost, investor and Benchmark partner Bill Gurley tells Bloomberg Television,” Emily Chang reports for Bloomberg...
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10 popular iPhone apps you should delete
“Screen after screen, folder after folder, app after app, the iPhone has become the new enabler for the mobile hoarder,” Tom Kaneshige writes for CIO. For the New Year, though, many iPhone addicts...
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EU to probe Google, Amazon, other US sites over data use and search
Brussels is set to widen its front against US tech companies just two weeks...
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Travel hops on Apple Watch bandwagon
Grab your gear and book a flight—hotels and travel hubs are jumping...
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Apple’s intriguing same-day delivery experiment
Apple Inc. is offering same-day delivery...
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Winning the driverless car wars
I think self-driving cars are coming, eventually. I just think that 'eventually' might be further off than people suggest...
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GM invests $500 million in Lyft, plans on-demand network of self-driving...
eneral Motors Inc. said on Monday it will invest $500 million in Lyft Inc and laid out plans to develop...
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Apple sponsoring Super Bowl Host Committee; Apple to run Super Bowl ad this...
The Super Bowl Host Committee's advisory board boasts tech luminaries like Apple general counsel Bruce Sewell and Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer...
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Apple patent application reveals work on social network with ‘staggering...
Recent filings with the United States Patent and Trademark Office reveal that Apple looks to be forming a social network to compete directly with Facebook...
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Things to know about China’s Didi, Apple’s latest $1 billion investment
Apple Inc. is investing $1 billion in Chinese ride-sharing service Didi Chuxing, which dominates Uber...
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Does Apple CEO Tim Cook have one more thing up his sleeve?
Apple is in a funk. Whether it’s short-term or the new normal...
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