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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Although no iPhones made a surprise appearance as some had hoped, there was no shortage of new Apple products to gawk over on Tuesday (Sept. Two new Apple Watches took center stage, as did the Apple One subscription product and its various pricing tiers. Here’s a rundown of what Apple did announce: An Apple Watch Upgrade.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Apple registered a reply and counterclaims in its legal saga with Epic Games , contending that the developer broke its agreement with Apple as it also asked for damages in a conflict that arose on August 13, CNBC reported. Apple then halted the game maker’s developer account on Aug. after going as high as $515.14

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AUGUST 11, 2017

A new report has found that while Apple has fallen to third place in the wearable market for the second quarter of 2017, the total worldwide wearable band market grew 8 percent during the same period. According to Canalys Research , the market was led by Xiaomi , with shipments of 3.5 million Apple Watch shipments.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Apple and Google executives may be wondering if there's an app for, "time to call the lawyers.". 8) issued a news release stating that it will look at the market power the two companies exert in the country. Meanwhile, Apple faces a probe of its App Store practices in the European Union. Public input will be accepted until Oct.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Banco Santander announced that it has hired Trish Burgess, formerly of Apple, to head up its peer-to-peer (P2P) payments department, according to a release. At Apple, Burgess provided insight and direction for the Apple Card , working with the engineering, product, marketing and operations teams from both Apple and Goldman Sachs.

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MAY 24, 2018

Apple led the charge in the wearable band market during the first quarter of this year, with Canalys finding that the company shipped 3.8 million Apple Watches during the first three months of the year. Behind Apple, Xiaomi , which makes the Mi Bands, was in second place, shipping 3.7

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APRIL 1, 2019

Three years ago, I wrote a piece in which I said Apple had become the kind of company that Steve Jobs once said he never wanted it to be: one that follows the lead of others. Jobs felt so strongly that he said he’d rather gamble Apple’s future instead of trying to one-up everyone else after the fact. Copycatting in Cupertino.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

You can see it in how investors are putting money to work in both consumer-facing and B2B startups, and how startups and incumbents are forging new partnerships to move innovation faster to market. Those conversations have largely ignored the Biggest Tech company of all, Apple, and Apple Pay. consumers showed that of the 7.75

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NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Apple will adhere to Russia’s demands that the technology conglomerate change the way the Crimean peninsula is displayed on Apple’s Weather and Maps apps, according to BBC reports. The BBC said this change seems to be reflected on iPhones within Russia on devices set up to use the Russian version of Apple’s App Store.

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APRIL 23, 2019

In technology, especially when it comes to consumer-focused technology, Apple is viewed as a disruptive force. but Apple has made itself indispensable across many verticals. The digital card will be linked to Apple Pay. Apple Card is set to be available starting this summer. A New Normal? The Incentives Question.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

The post did not say when Amex would start operations in the country. Final approval from the PBOC is still required in order for Amex to begin operating there. China aims to open up the market to international companies, as many foreign firms have been lobbying to enter the country for about 10 years.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

It’s a concept Rob Orgel, now the new president and chief operating officer at Flywire , told Karen Webster was foundational to his decade-long career at Apple — where he was part of the leadership team that developed, rolled out and grew the Apple Pay business. Flywire announced his appointment Tuesday (Nov.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

Apple said it was sorry for allowing contractors to listen to what people said to Siri, CNBC reported on Wednesday (Aug. Human review for Siri recordings helps Apple improve the recognition and understanding algorithms that Siri uses to operate, the company has said. Apple said the grading process had reviewed less than 0.2

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

It may not be that easy for Apple , a tech giant that seems to have missed one of the most important anchors of connected commerce – the home – along with trendlines that suggest the smartphone is slowly becoming less central to the consumer and the commerce experience. Apple is investing heavily to make sure they stay on that list.

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JULY 10, 2019

Apple has begun a program, based in China, that will look to help Chinese developers in their bid to create new applications, according to Reuters. The fact that the app development program is housed and focused on China shows the importance of this market for China. The company has said that more than 2.5

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JANUARY 20, 2020

As Goldman Sachs seeks further expansion in the South African economy, the financial services company joined the Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s interest-rate and currency-derivatives market, Bloomberg reported on Monday (Jan. The filings also indicated that interest income would be spread across operating segments.

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OCTOBER 29, 2019

The EU is looking even further into possible antitrust violations regarding Apple , with regulators trying to find out if online sales companies were ordered to use the tech giant’s mobile payment service instead of rival services.

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OCTOBER 16, 2019

The Apple payment platform, Apple Pay, is again being investigated by the European Commission again, MLex reported on Wednesday (Oct. A report says that European Union antitrust regulators are gathering information from other payments companies about Apple’s marketplace decorum. among retailers and transit systems.

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APRIL 14, 2019

Apple , aiming to move beyond the iPhone to drive sales, is reportedly spending millions of dollars to acquire new video games to be part of the subscription gaming service it will roll out later this year. Apple has stiff rivals in the gaming market. In 2017 Apple spent $1 billion on original content for its TV platform.

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APRIL 4, 2019

Apple AirPods are priced between $159 and $199. The main thing holding back Amazon’s product growth is its lack of a mobile phone or operating system. Apple and Google, on the other hand, have built-in audiences for their respective digital assistants. Like Apple’s offerings, the buds will come with a charging case.

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MAY 6, 2019

Morgan Stanley will send the Russian central bank a notice that it’s going to formally close of all of its banking operations in the country in the first quarter of 2020, according to a report by Reuters. and EU made it too hard for Russian businesses to access international capital markets.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

In a roundup of today’s top retail stories: The automotive market continues its comeback with a digital spin, conversational commerce is the next big pandemic-fueled trend, and Tiffany said that its preliminary sales results for August and September 2020 are positive. Tiffany Upbeat on Sales, Operating Earnings Amid COVID-19 Comeback.

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AUGUST 8, 2019

Apple is facing Russian scrutiny following a cybersecurity complaint that it is taking advantage of its controlling market position, Russia’s anti-monopoly watchdog told Reuters on Thursday (Aug. Apple said the removed apps used a “highly invasive” technology – Mobile Device Management (MDM) – that violated the App Store policies.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Apple could be starting a subscription service for gaming, according to reports. It would operate like a streaming service, where users pay a fee to get access to many different titles. There’s no word yet on how much the service would cost, or the types of games Apple would offer. billion in revenue for the 2018 fiscal year.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2019

To provide a soundtrack for brick-and-mortar retail stores, Apple has been quietly testing out an Apple Music version for use in business, including at Harrods and Levi Strauss & Co. Harrods, for instance, began using the Apple Music for Business offering a few weeks ago in its store in London.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The stock price is off nearly 7 percent , even though its trillion-dollar market cap remains intact. Analysts and the media smelled blood in the water after CEO Tim Cook said Apple would stop reporting unit sales of its products, including its crown jewel, the iPhone, next quarter. So, how’s Apple going to make that up?

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AUGUST 15, 2019

The Apple Card looms, with a rollout that began last week through Goldman Sachs, and according to at least one analysis, the card might underwhelm consumers, lead to muted results (at least at the outset) for its tech and banking backers, and for Goldman, even lead to losses, depending on the economic climate. Not with a bang but a whimper?

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JANUARY 30, 2019

Apple’s mobile payment service Apple Pay helped the company’s services business revenue grow 19% year-over-year to reach an all-time high of $10.9 Apple Pay processed over 1.8 billion in the first quarter of 2019.

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JUNE 5, 2018

Through a new Face ID setting, Apple ’s latest iOS 12 potentially allows more than one person to use the feature on a particular iPhone X. The news comes as Apple’s annual developer conference, WWDC , helped boost the company’s shares to an all-time high on Monday (June 4). As a result, Apple’s stock rose as much as 1.7

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JUNE 1, 2018

Can Apple do mobile ads ? The paper, relying on unnamed sources, said that “over the past year, Apple has met with Snap Inc. Pinterest and other companies about participating in an Apple network that would distribute ads across their collective apps. Meanwhile, Apple’s shipments of Apple Watches reached 3.8

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AUGUST 22, 2018

As it makes its way to South Africa and continues to amass impressive partnerships with the likes of Alipay and PayPal, Samsung Pay might have completed three years in the mobile payments market, but its numbers still lag its main rival, Apple Pay. Samsung revealed yesterday that it had completed 1.3

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NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Apple will adhere to Russia’s demands that the technology conglomerate change the way the Crimean peninsula is displayed on Apple’s Weather and Maps apps, according to BBC reports. The BBC said this change seems to be reflected on iPhones within Russia on devices set up to use the Russian version of Apple’s App Store.

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APRIL 20, 2018

Apple has made moves to acknowledge Alipay's dominance in the market, such as partnering with Alibaba Financial affiliate Alibaba to accept Alipay payments in China's Apple stores.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In a move that shows Apple’s softening stance on its software services, Apple Music could be coming to Google Home speakers , according to a report by CNBC. A link to an Apple Music account was spotted this week in the Google Home app, but the sign-in doesn’t work yet. The Google Home Mini is significantly less expensive at $50.

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AUGUST 1, 2019

Google’s parent company Alphabet has surpassed Apple as the company with the biggest cash reserves in the world, according to a report by the Financial Times. The move comes as Apple has made a conscious decision to let go of some of its cash reserves, and about six years after activist investor Carl Icahn pressured the company to do so.

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AUGUST 27, 2019

Menlo Park-based Enjoy Technology , the eCommerce startup led by Ron Johnson, former VP of retail operations for Apple, has raised an additional $150 million in Series C funding, TechCrunch reported on Tuesday (Aug. Enjoy Technology operates in 54-plus U.S. markets and will be offered in 11 U.K. population.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

For Big Tech, the bleeding may come from cuts, here and there, targeting individual agreements and operations. Vestager has said the injunctions would be more widely deployed as antitrust investigations continue into Google, Amazon and Apple, among others. “If

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