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Apple has launched an online store on China’s WeChat app, the Tencent-owned platform said on Tuesday. The Cupertino-based company has launched the store to the app via WeChat’s mini-programs —…

Apple launches an online store on China’s WeChat app

Apple launched its online Apple Store in Vietnam on Thursday, expanding its business in what is quickly becoming a key overseas market for the iPhone-maker. People in the country can…

Apple launches its online store in Vietnam

It’s not easy to keep up with all the content being released to dozens of streaming services. However, TV tracker apps make our binge-watching habits a little more manageable. ReelTime…

Movie and TV app ReelTime helps you track your viewing, check ratings and more

So you’re sitting there watching all of the new gadget news from Apple this afternoon — a new Apple Watch Series 8, SE, Ultra, new AirPods Pro…and then, wait —…

Apple sneaks in a ‘Severance’ Season 2 teaser during its iPhone 14 event

As promised earlier this year at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), the company today confirmed it’s broadening access to its Apple Fitness+ service to users beyond Apple Watch owners. At…

Apple’s Fitness+ subscription is coming to iPhone with iOS 16

The U.S. Department of Justice is in the early stages of drafting an antitrust lawsuit against Apple, according to sources cited by Politico in a report released just ahead of…

Justice Department in early stages of filing an antitrust lawsuit against Apple, says report

Apple is introducing a handful of new ways to support U.S. National Parks. The company announced today it’s continuing its annual National Park donation initiative that allows Apple customers to…

Apple kicks off fundraising effort to support US National Parks via Apple Pay donations

As several Apple stores across the country fight to unionize, workers in Towson, Maryland became the first to win formal recognition. Out of 110 eligible employees, the union received 65…

An Apple store in Maryland makes history by forming the company’s first recognized union

Happy WWDC day. Today kicks off Apple’s annual developer’s conference, with the traditional keynote starting at 10:00 a.m. PST (watch it right here). Generally, WWDC focuses on software features and…

For the first time in years, the Apple Store is down ahead of WWDC

As a handful of Apple retail locations begin the process of unionizing, the trillion-dollar company’s vice president of people and retail Deirdre O’Brien delivered a warning to 58,000 retail staff…

Apple VP kindly reminds retail workers that they can say no to unions

Apple revealed that it will be expanding its Today at Apple Creative Studios initiative to seven new cities, including Berlin, Miami, Milan, Nashville, Sydney, Taipei and Tokyo. It will also…

Today at Apple Creative Studios will launch in 7 new cities

Apple store employees in Towson, Maryland have organized a union and petitioned to hold an official union election. This marks the third Apple retail location in recent weeks that has…

A second Apple Store files to hold a union election

Amid a record-breaking fiscal second quarter, Apple also delivered record-breaking services revenue up 17% year over year to reach $19.8 billion. The category — which includes businesses like the App…

Apple’s services revenue hits a record $19.8B in Q2, reaches 825M paid subscriptions

Apple retail workers at the Cumberland Mall store in Atlanta, Georgia became the first group of U.S. Apple store workers to reach a crucial step in the formal unionization process:…

An Apple Store in Atlanta is the first to file for a union election

From Activision to Amazon, historic union elections are changing the way that Americans think about work. Now, Apple is the next tech giant to reckon with an employee-driven labor movement.…

Apple retail workers at the Grand Central store are trying to unionize

Apple is furthering its investment in original podcasts with today’s debut of the new true crime-focused Apple Original podcast “Hooked.” The nine-part series will explore the story of a top…

Apple debuts a new standalone Original podcast with true crime-focused ‘Hooked’

This Thursday, Apple will mark the opening of a new store in downtown Los Angeles. The space occupies the newly renovated Tower Theatre, which opened in DTLA’s Broadway Theater District…

Apple is opening a store in downtown LA’s nearly 100-year-old Tower Theatre

Upsie, a consumer warranty startup, has raised $18.2 million in a Series A round led by True Ventures.  The financing brings the total raised for the St. Paul, Minnesota-based startup…

Upsie’s direct-to-consumer swing at the warranty space nets $18.2M

Independent music distribution platform and tool factory UnitedMasters has raised a $50 million series B round led by Apple. A16z and Alphabet are participating again in this raise. United Masters…

Apple invests $50M into music distributor UnitedMasters alongside a16z and Alphabet

Apple is expanding its investment in podcasts. Today, Apple Books and Oprah announced the launch of “Oprah’s Book Club” podcast, an eight-episode series that will explore themes related to Oprah’s…

Apple expands its podcast footprint with Oprah’s Book Club series

Apple today confirmed earlier rumors that it plans to shut down re-opened stores in four states.  Impacted locations include six stores in Arizona, two in Florida, another two in North…

After reopening, Apple is closing stores in four states as COVID-19 numbers climb

C4 Ventures, the Paris-based VC, has raised a new €80 million ($88 million) “Fund II.” The fund was founded by Pascal Cagni, a former Europe boss of Apple, and includes…

C4 Ventures raises $88M fund for post-Series A startups, in a post-COVID-19 world

In mid-March, Apple closed all of its stores outside of China “until further notice.” It was a sweeping — but necessary — move for a world facing down a growing…

Apple begins reopening some stores with temperature checks and other safeguards in place

Today, Apple released its 2020 Supplier Responsibility progress report. In it, Senior Vice President of Operations Sabih Khan published a letter that details an outline of the plan it created…

Apple Operations SVP details supply chain safety changes due to COVID-19

Apple has awarded $10 million from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund to COPAN Diagnostics, a company focused on producing sample collection kits for testing COVID-19 to hospitals in the U.S. The…

Apple awards $10 million to rapidly scale COVID-19 sample collection kit production

Apple has now added COVID-19 testing sites to its Apple Maps app across the U.S., covering all 50 states and Puerto Rico. The update provides testing locations including hospitals, clinics,…

Apple adds COVID-19 testing sites to Maps across the US, and shares more mobility data

Apple is updating its privacy policy for Apple Card to enable sharing more anonymized data with Goldman Sachs, its financial partner. Apple’s reasoning here is that this will make it…

Apple Card gets updated privacy policy on new data sharing and more transaction detail

Apple appears to be expecting a longer disruption to shopping at its physical retail stores as a result of the public health crisis posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier this…

Apple now says its retail stores are closed ‘until further notice’

Apple will be closing all of its stores outside of China until March 27th. In a statement on the company’s website attributed to Tim Cook, the company attributed the decision…

Apple is closing all of its stores outside of China until March 27

An Apple Store employee who was on leave from the Third St. Promenade store in Santa Monica, Calif. tested positive for COVID-19 late yesterday. The employee had been on leave…

An Apple Store employee on leave has tested positive for COVID-19 in Santa Monica