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Apple has bought a personal assistant app in an apparent bid to directly compete with Google Now. The app, Cue, cost between $40 million and $60 million, according to a report from TechCrunch.
Any time Apple hires outside the company, rumors immediately start about what the company could be working on. In the case of Jean-Francois Mulé, former Senior Vice President at CableLabs who worked on web TV before, the new hire himself started the rumor mill, saying that he's working on "something big."
The ubiquitous American company founded in 1886 and available in every country in the world (except, officially, Cuba and North Korea) is no longer the world's number one most valuable brand. Coca-Cola, your throne has been usurped by Apple, Inc.
Microsoft launched another trade-in program to try to coax iPhone users to switch to a new Nokia 1020 phone - or just to buy anything from the Microsoft Store.
This week - like all weeks after a new product launch, no matter how "perfectly" designed - Apple has been beset by hackers proving their mettle by bypassing security features and ordinary customers unhappy with certain features of Apple's new mobile operating system, iOS 7.
When Apple's Jony Ive introduced the new iOS 7, flat icons, the bright color scheme, and other cosmetic changes took center stage. Some like it; some don't. But one upgrade in iOS 7 is making people sick - literally.
Apple unveiled the updated iMac computer on Tuesday, which features a new Intel Haswell processor, a new Nvidia GPU, and a much faster storage drive. The updated iMac brings next generation WiFi and a few other features as well.
Apple just released iTunes Radio for iTunes 11.1 and iOS 7, and already there are 11 million listeners giving it a chance, according to Apple. Pandora, meanwhile, is already in trouble (despite being better), as its stock dipped down 10 percent at the end of trading today.
While the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c may be getting all of the attention today from Apple fans, another product just got a major update - Apple TV. With the new upgrade to Apple TV 6.0, several new features, including the new iTunes Radio, are now supported by the little set-top box.
If it was hard to download iOS 7 yesterday, that's because millions upon millions of other owners of iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches were trying to update their operating systems at the same time. This may be an annoyance, but it's good for Apple: after just a day and a half of iOS 7's availability, over 40 percent of Apple mobile users have already adopted the new operating system.
It's only been a couple days since Apple announced the new iPhone 5S, the first smartphone to feature a processor with 64-bit architecture, and already, Samsung has announced its next mobile devices will follow suit.
Attacks by hackers have breached Apple Inc. using malware specifically designed for Mac computers.
During President Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook will have one of the best seats in the house. Once again, he will be joining First Lady Michelle Obama in her exclusive box seats to watch the SOTU speech.
