California-based technology firm established in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. The firm's best-known products include the iPod, the iPhone, iPad and Macintosh computers
The millions of iPhone devotees who snapped up the iPhone 4S this month will boost the bottom line of Apple's next financial year, but analysts predict that the technology giant's fourth-quarter figures tonight will reveal another bumper quarter... more
Apple co-founder and his wife placed at least three properties into trusts in 2009, a sign he may have been ensuring that his assets aren't disclosed upon his death
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"Seeing a Rupert Murdoch publication whine about the meanness and editorial excess of other media companies is almost indescribably hilarious..."... more
Apple has overtaken Google as the world's most valuable brand, ending a four-year reign by the Internet search leader, according to a new study by global brands agency Millward Brown... more
Mobile phones and tablet computers are taking an increasing share of search advertising, new research shows, just as Apple announces it sold a record 18.65 iPhones in the last quarter... more
Google's answer to the iPad will attempt to break Apple's stranglehold on the tablet computer market when it goes on sale in Britain next week
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Apple boss Steve Jobs faces having to interrupt his sick leave to testify about alleged anti-competitive practices involving his iPod and iTunes music-download services... more
Competition authorities in the United States begin to look at the terms Apple set out this week for newspaper, magazine and music publishers to sell their content on its iPad and other mobile devices... more
Analysis: Silicon Valley experienced a major set earthquakes when three tech giants, Apple, Google and Hewlett-Packard, announced big shake-ups in their leadership... more
The opening of Apple’s biggest store has transformed the fortunes of Covent Garden after attracting 440,000 extra visitors during its first month, the area’s landlord says... more
Cloud computing can store your music collection, photos, email and could soon give you instant access to virtually every film or TV programme ever made... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows