Unsealed testimony from an Apple senior vice president has revealed that the tech giant considered acquiring Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, as a potential competitor to Google’s search dominance. This disclosure during an antitrust trial against Google provides a glimpse into the strategic maneuvers of industry players and the difficulties...
Apple has reportedly soft launched an iPhone Wallet app integration that provides users in the United Kingdom with their current account balances and transaction histories. This new offering is powered by the U.K.’s Open Banking API, 9to5Mac reported Wednesday (Sept. 27). Apple did not immediately reply to PYMNTS’...
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has reportedly issued new rules that could restrict Apple from offering many foreign apps on its iPhone app store in China. The rules don’t specifically target Apple, but would impact the company due to the number of apps...
Apple must face a lawsuit accusing it of illegally hindering competition for its payment wallet. A federal judge on Wednesday (Sept. 27) allowed a private antitrust suit against the tech giant to proceed, Reuters reported. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White ruled that the plaintiffs in...
Apple’s latest devices arrived in stores Friday (Sept. 22). Among the new offerings available in-store and online are the iPhone 15 lineup and new Apple Watch lineup, the company said in a Friday press release. The release includes a range of options, such as the iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus,...
Apple was reportedly planning to add a stock-trading feature to its iPhones, but halted the project last year due to market conditions. The feature, which was being developed during the COVID-19 pandemic, aimed to capitalize on the increased interest in stock trading at the time as...
Apple’s latest launch event has unveiled a fresh collection of tech. Tuesday’s (Sept. 12) new product announcements had as their centerpiece the latest iterations of the iPhone 15, the iPhone 15 Plus, the iPhone 15 Pro and the iPhone 15 Pro Max, along with the...
For Apple, Tuesday (Sept. 12) will mark the latest launch of its latest slate of hardware updates. And while the world will be watching and parsing the details and the price tags of what’s on offer, particularly the iPhone 15, the devices themselves continue to...
This week, Apple will unveil new products that include the fifteenth iteration of its iPhone. And as a Bloomberg News report Sunday (Sept. 10) notes, that company will once again try to steer shoppers to costlier models to drive revenue. As the report argues, it’s...
