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Apple announces HomePod speaker at WWDC, will ship device in December

Apple’s much-rumored speaker is en route. Apple today announced its speaker, the HomePod a wireless speaker powered by Apple’s A8 chip with Siri integration that’s just under 7 inches tall. Phil Schiller, the company’s VP of Worldwide Marketing, offered the following comment: “HomePod packs powerful speaker technology, Siri intelligence and wireless access to the entire […]

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Apple releases watchOS 3.1.1 update

It’s not a huge update, but it’s got some useful stuff to it. On Monday, Apple released watchOS 3.1.1, a minor maintenance update to its watchOS operating system. The update, which requires that the Apple Watch itself be connected to power and have more than 50 percent battery remaining, adds the following fixes and changes:

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Apple releases Q2 2016 numbers, reports $10.5 billion profit, but first decline in revenue in over a decade

The good news is that Apple made billions and billions of dollars in profits last quarter. The bad news is that this represents a lower profit than Q2 of 2015. For the first time ever, iPhone sales fell for the quarter. While this doesn’t include iPhone SE sales, Apple reported its first quarterly revenue decline […]

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Robinhood financial tool launches, offers zero commission trading for iOS

You may love the stock market or hate it, but it’s out there and it’s worth tapping into. And if you’ve got a handy iOS app to help you do it, so much the better. The Robinhood app has surfaced for iOS, complete with zero commission for U.S. listed securities. The app is designed to […]

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Apple earnings good but not great

The business and financial markets are a kooky thing. You can make a ton of money, even more than the previous year, but if it’s not as much as other people expected, you’ve failed. That is essentially what Wall Street is saying after todays earnings announcement from Apple. As a result, Apple stock price fell […]