Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)

Why the Microsoft Dividend Hike Means So Much

Posted: September 19, 2018 at 11:05 am

It is no secret that investors love dividends. That said, it has not been that long that the large established technology leaders have been big on paying dividends. Today's environment ...
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Apple Watch Series 4: The first reviews are in

Posted: September 19, 2018 at 9:40 am

Excerpts from the posts I’ve seen.   Dieter Bohn, The Verge: The best gets better. The Series 4 has finally achieved something like the original goal of the Apple ...
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Apple’s Tim Cook on Good Morning America (video)

Posted: September 19, 2018 at 8:30 am

GMA’s 9-minute segment leads with Cook trying to explain why Apple’s products don’t have to pay Trump’s China tax.   Cook is optimistic that the U.S. and China will make ...
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Survey: Apple employees most likely to postpone parenthood

Posted: September 19, 2018 at 7:30 am

What makes Apple so family hostile?   In an anonymous survey of 8,000 tech professionals at two dozen companies, Apple topped the chart. Blind’s Work Talk Blog: This month, ...
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The Trump whisperer

Posted: September 19, 2018 at 6:30 am

From the Washington Post: Trump’s tariffs won’t bite Apple, illustrating Tim Cook’s political sway.   Apple chief executive Tim Cook has been one of President Trump’s staunchest critics in ...
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Apple’s Bet on Sustainability as a Growth Business

Posted: September 18, 2018 at 9:35 am

Now that the new Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) products have been launched and shipments have begun, it might be a good time to look at another presentation at Apple's event ...
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iPhone Xs and Xs Max: The first reviews are in

Posted: September 18, 2018 at 9:30 am

The notices range from warm to glowing.   Nilay Patel, The Verge: Solid updates to a winning formula. After a week of using it as my primary phone, the ...
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Apple ducks Trump tariff bullet, stock takes dive

Posted: September 18, 2018 at 7:55 am

The Street is pricing in the worst-case scenario despite evidence that Apple is better off than most.   Anticipating the latest round of Chinese trade tariffs, Apple shares fell ...
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6 Most Important Things in Business Today

Posted: September 18, 2018 at 5:01 am

President Trump put tariffs on another $200 billion of China imports. According to Reuters: China said on Tuesday it has no choice but to retaliate against new U.S. trade tariffs, ...
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Apple, McDonald’s Sink the Dow Monday

Posted: September 17, 2018 at 4:01 pm

September 17, 2018: Markets opened lower Monday following a tumultuous trading day in Asia and new worries about deteriorating relations between the United States and China. Only the Dow was ...
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Analyst: Apple will ship 10 million new iPhones by end of quarter

Posted: September 17, 2018 at 9:30 am

From a note to clients by Rosenblatt’s Jun Yhang that landed on my desktop Monday:   We believe combined iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max preorders to be about ...
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This week’s Apple trading strategies (9/17-9/21)

Posted: September 17, 2018 at 8:50 am

A place for Apple 3.0 subscribers to share their ideas.   To get things rolling, here’s Mad Money’s Jim Cramer on why the stock went down after last week’s ...
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Former Apple intern buys Time Magazine

Posted: September 17, 2018 at 8:25 am

Marc Benioff, the billionaire co-founder of Salesforce, and his wife Lynne paid $190 million cash for the 95-year-old newsmagazine.   From the New York Times: An impassioned and eccentric ...
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Tales from Apple’s other corporate campus

Posted: September 17, 2018 at 6:30 am

From Steven Levy’s Oral History of Apple’s Infinite Loop, posted Sunday on Wired.com:   For more than a year I’ve been interviewing Apple employees, past and present, about their ...
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Munster: Look which iPhones disappeared first

Posted: September 17, 2018 at 6:30 am

Pre-orders for the Xs series began at 3 a.m. Eastern Friday. The team from Loup Ventures was up all night with a stop watch.   From a note to ...
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