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With the holiday season upon us, Apple has dropped ship times for the iPhone 5 to just one week in a number of countries, including here in the US.

Online sales jumped to a new high during Black Friday - casting doubt on the future of traditional "brick and mortar" retailers.

U.S. consumers used mobile platforms to generate a 17.4 percent boost in online sales, according to an IBM survey.

Stock futures fell on Monday as investors returned to the market after a holiday-shortened trading week, focused on the meeting of euro zone finance ministers on Greece and negotiations in the U.S. over the "fiscal cliff."

AT&T has begun selling refurbished versions of the iPhone 5 and they are hitting the shelves for as much as $100 off the regular price.

Apple devices, including the iPad and the iPhone, dominated online buying during this holiday season on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday, according to a report by IBM.

Disney CEO and Apple board member Bob Iger purchased $1 million worth of shares of Apple (AAPL), Monday, Nov.19.

With just a couple of days to go for Black Friday, retailers are busy preparing for the rush of shoppers in the coming weekend. Retail giant Best Buy is one of those retailers offering lucrative deals to help fuel the busiest shopping day of the year.

Apple is poised for even bigger success in the tablet sector, because its iOS is the new Windows, UBS analyst Steven Milunovich said.

Fiona Apple has canceled tour dates in Brazil and Mexico due to her ailing dog.

The demand for the precious metal by industry is expected rise following a two-year slump.

The Beatles' epic and sprawling White Album represents the absolute peak of pop music creativity and versatility.

Nokia released its HERE Maps app for iOS on Tuesday, but some reviewers have reported shortcomings with the newest iOS maps addition.

AC/DC, a longtime iTunes holdout, has struck a deal with Apple's iTunes to sell their music digitally

Samsung Electronics Co. will get another chance to convince a U.S. trade agency that Apple Inc.’s iPhone, iPad iPod touch infringe its patents.

The successors to the iPhone 5 and iPad 4 may arrive sooner than we think.

Black Friday 2012 is nearly upon us, and here is a compilation of some of the top deals from Best Buy, Walmart and more.

"Reliable sources" say the next Mac OS will introduce two of Apple's most widely used features from iOS, including Maps and Siri.

The iCloud outage was widespread on Sunday and affected many of Apple's most-used services.

We should have known: 2012 has been the Year of the Dragon. Too bad it's followed by the Year of the Snake.

Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) was granted a design patent for page-turning on its mobile devices this week by the United States Patent Office.

"Real artists ship," Steve Jobs famously told his employees at an Apple retreat in January 1983.

Apple finally released the LTE and cellular-capable variant of the iPad Mini on Friday, which is now being sold at Apple and AT&T stores.

Can it rebound? Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) shares Friday set a three-month low of $505.75, $200 below their record high of $705.07 set on Sept. 21.

Two weeks after it released the fourth-generation iPad to the public, Apple has finally released the LTE and cellular-capable variant of the device on Friday.

As current rumors go, predictions of a possible release date for the iPhone 5S range from the first quarter of 2013 to the next year’s edition of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June. Given that things are very murky now and it is too early to settle on a specific date, readers should take every rumor with a pinch of salt.

While most Apple fans will be lining up to buy a new iPad mini at Apple stores nationwide, after a heist of stolen goods, just as many may be excited to purchase their new tablets from illegal black market dealers.

Apple and AT&T will start selling cellular-capable iPad Minis through their retail stores tomorrow, but a few happy customers actually received their orders a day early.

On Friday, the first deliveries of the iPad 4 with LTE will finally arrive, and Apple will begin selling the devices through their retail stores as well.