On Monday, Apple invested another $210 million to help Foxconn, the company's largest manufacturing partner in Asia, build out a new production line for unspecified components. The plant will hire roughly 35,800 new employees to help assemble components for the company's line of desktop and laptop computers, smartphones, tablets, or possibly new computing devices.
Apple Inc.'s refresh of its top-selling iPhone is likely to include a larger screen, reflecting the final wishes of Steve Jobs and putting it in a class of devices previously defined by rivals.
Apple hopes to make all drivers safer with a new invention, which lets users wirelessly control the music playing in their car without ever taking their hands off the steering wheel. In a patent that was quietly granted on May 15, Apple describes a new remote control that can be clipped onto any car's steering wheel.
Google will reportedly work with up to five different manufacturers at once to offer a wide variety of Android devices, including both smartphones and tablets. The move is a big power play from Google in its efforts to surpass Apple, and it could absolutely work, mainly because it's worked before with Microsoft.
Facebook, the world's biggest social network with 900 million-plus users, is finally ready to make its Wall Street debut on Friday, May 18, 2012. Facebook is clearly dominant in its industry, but buying stock so quickly might be unwise. Here are five reasons why you shouldn't go buy Facebook stock right away.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg turned 28 on Monday, and his true birthday present will arrive on Friday when the social networking site sells stock and begins trading on Nasdaq. But he's not the only young gun out there.
Former Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) CEO Scott Thompson quit in part because of a recent diagnosis of thyroid cancer, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Photos of Ashton Kutcher's Steve Jobs makeover have surfaced on TMZ. Decked out in a black turtleneck, jeans and New Balance sneakers, Ashton Kutcher was spotted in full character in the photos as the former Apple CEO made his way to the set of the Jobs biopic in L.A. on Friday. News of Kutcher, 34, signing on to play Jobs in the biopic was reported by Variety in early April.
Apple is reportedly dropping Google Maps in favor on a new in-house application, which will be similar to Google Maps' software but is described as a much cleaner, faster, and more reliable experience. The new software will reportedly be released alongside iOS 6, Apple's next mobile operating system.
It seems that everyone cannot stop talking about Mark Zuckerberg's roadshow to the Facebook IPO, where he angered Wall Street bankers by donning his standard uniform, a hoodie and jeans. But Zuckerberg isn?t the only CEO of a company who chooses to dress down than don a suit. Here are photos of 13 other CEOs who rid of suits.
Apple has criticized Samsung's recent success as the world's number one smartphone maker by saying that the South Korean tech giant got to the top spot by copying the Cupertino-based company's products. This comes at a time when both Apple and Samsung have agreed to drop roughly half the number of charges against each other, ahead of a court-moderated settlement talk in San Francisco to ensure that a trial can be heard as early as this summer.
In a move to stay true to the 1960s, Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner paid $250,000 in licensing fees to use the Beatles' Tomorrow Never Knows in last Sunday's episode of Mad Men.
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson has said that the company's decision to offer an unlimited data plan for the original iPhones was a mistake, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Rumors are rife that Apple is planning to launch a miniature, 7-inch Apple tablet at this year?s Worldwide Developers Conference that will kick off on June 11. The same event is expected to see the launch of some great devices like MacBook Pro (2012), iTV and some software like iOS 6 and iTunes 11.
Steve Jobs is remembered not merely for the company he co-founded, but also for his mannerism, determination and marketing skills that helped Apple reach the zenith of success. But what about his acting skills? Yes, the Apple wizard did have some. He appeared as former U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a long-lost TV commercial to charge up the company's sales team to take on IBM.
Scott Forstall, The Apple senior vice president of iOS software, just scored a $38.7 million payday, according to an SEC filing cited by Fortune Magazine. Forstall, 42, recently cashed in over 64,000 company shares, which netted him close to $40 million.
Facebook added another item to the myriad of things you can share over the social networking site: your organs. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced users can share their organ donor status or sign up through the social networking site.
While user excitement and rumors about Apple devices mainly flock around iPad and iPhone, Apple HD TV is also slowly yet strongly making its presence felt among TV addicts.
Google's latest product announcement -- Google Drive -- has put the company in a better position to compete in the growing cloud storage market. But how does Google Drive stack up to other cloud storage options?
With Apple announcing on Wednesday the dates for its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), people have already started to talk about the possibility of the event setting the stage for the debut of the mysterious iPhone 5. But while the WWDC conference has been used as a launching pad for two iPhones (the iPhone 3GS in 2009 and the iPhone 4 in 2010), 2012's event, which will go from June 11-15, is said to focus more on software, rather than speculation and rumors.
At a Groupon staff meeting held yesterday, CEO Andrew Mason had all-hands on deck to talk about how he believes that, since the company went public, it has been making an ass out of itself. While Mason may have been referring to the embarrassing restatement of its first quarterly results, staffers and business insiders are now looking at Mason himself as the root of the problem.
For the 19th time in the last 20 quarters, Apple reported sales that exceeded Wall Street's estimates. Not bad for a company started out of a garage. On Tuesday, Apple followed-up its most successful quarter in company history with its Q2 2012 financial results.