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Apple tops Samsung in Q4 phone sales; Oppo, Vivo catching up
04 Feb 2017
Apple Inc has won the crucial 2016 holiday quarter as the iPhone 7 helped the company beat nearest rival Samsung in smartphone sales, according to data from IDC
Google overtakes Apple as world’s most valuable brand
04 Feb 2017
Apple has "overexploited the goodwill of its customers" and "repeatedly disillusioned its advocates with tweaks when material changes were expected", says the latest Brand Finance Gobal 500 report
Apple to begin making iPhones in Karnataka from April
03 Feb 2017
Taiwan's Wistron Corp will put together Apple’s phones in Bengaluru, a Karnataka minister said, but did not reveal if any of the concessions demanded by Apple for making in India have been granted
Tim Cook lauds demonetisation as Apple’s India profits soar
01 Feb 2017
Despite an acute shortage of cash and cut in discretionary spending because of demonetisation of Rs500 and Rs1,000 currency notes, iPhone maker Apple was able to post all-time record revenues in India for the quarter that ended December
Apple formally joins AI alliance
28 Jan 2017
Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook, IBM, and now Apple have joined ‘Partnership on AI’, which aims to ensure that artificial intelligence benefits society and doesn’t harm it
Apple sued for not introducing feature to stop texting while driving
25 Jan 2017
A California man has launched a class-action lawsuit against Apple for failing to introduce an iPhone safety feature that would prevent people from texting while driving
Apple developing new class of bio-recognition technologies to replace Touch ID technology
23 Jan 2017
Tax sops among Apple’s many demands to make in India
20 Jan 2017
Apart from a relaxation or waiver of the 30 per cent local sourcing norm, Apple is also expected to seek a 15-year tax holiday on imports of components and equipment in a meeting with Indian officials next week
Apple unlikely to get more sops for manufacturing in India
19 Jan 2017
The government is unlikely to offer further relaxation of norms for Apple Inc to start manufacturing products like iPhones and iPads in India with its contract manufacturer Foxconn
Nokia sues Apple for infringing technology patents
22 Dec 2016
Nokia said it has filed suits against Apple in connection with 32 of its patents, covering technologies such as display, user interface, software, antenna, chipsets and video coding, in Munich, Germany and Texas, US
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