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Samsung Electronics Co. must pay Apple Inc. $539 million for infringing patents related to the iPhone’s design, a federal jury found Thursday, a new victory for Apple in a seven-year-old legal battle over the spoils of the smartphone market’s boom. The jury’s decision in the U.S. District Court in San Jose,...

A U.S. jury has ruled that Samsung should pay $539 million to Apple for copying patented smartphone features. The jury had been deliberating the latest case since last week. Samsung has previously paid Apple $399 million to compensate for the infringement of some of the patents at issue in the case. The...

Apple supplier TSMC has started mass production on the processors for this year's lineup of new iPhones, according to Bloomberg. The chip, which is expected to be called the A12, could be the first to use a 7-nanometer process in a commercial device, something the technology industry has been working...

The company has released a new privacy tool ahead of the impending GDPR European legislation that goes into effect on Friday. The new tool is available here and allows users to request a copy of all the data Apple holds on them, correct any data mistakes, deactivate their account, or...

You probably already know that getting paid to own a stock (i.e. receiving a dividend) is pretty great. You know what's even better? Having that payment grow over time. Here's where a popular method of investing commonly known as dividend growth investing comes in. In a nutshell, a dividend growth investor...

Apple’s search for a major new campus has been going on for some time, with a wide range of potentially suitable locations to choose from. It’s been reported that Apple may have shortlisted two locations, in Northern Virginia and North Carolina, with the latter said to be the favorite, thanks to...

I write about technology's biggest companies Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. This year Apple AAPL -0.18% will change its iPhone line-up dramatically. There will be three new models in three new sizes and - perhaps most surprisingly - some major price cuts. And now even Apple is...

One of the best reasons to buy a piece of Apple hardware, in my opinion, is the company’s history of protecting the privacy of its customers. Provided you're not a customer living in China. You may recall that, a while back, iOS users in China lost the ability to download most VPN...

As the sole gateway to putting software onto iOS devices, Apple’s App Store created $38.5 billion in revenue in 2017–and just shy of $10 billion in profits for Apple. Now, many of the software designers and developers behind much of that success are pushing back against Apple. A group of Apple...

Developers of iOS apps distributed in China have started to receive notifications from Apple that they are required to remove CallKit, a software UI framework for integrating VoIP calling services, from their apps. A post in an Apple developer forum last week recounts having an app rejected by Apple's app review...