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Apple's biggest business -- accounting for some 60% of its revenues -- is the 11 year old iPhone. But that mature business is barely growing. Fortunately for investors, Apple has a smaller business that's growing faster -- its so-called Services unit which includes revenues from App Store downloads, iCloud storage...

This last week has seen a rising number of reports of the back camera lens cracking on the iPhone X, and Apple’s suggestion for repair is to have the whole iPhone unit replaced, at a price of up to $549. Once again quality control and the high cost of...

The shares of some iPhone display suppliers fell in Asia after South Korea’s Electronic Times reported that Apple (AAPL, -0.27%) has decided to use next-generation screens for all of its new models next year, even though several analysts said such a transition wasn’t likely. Japan Display shares fell as much as...

A jury awarded Apple Inc. AAPL, +0.06% $539 million in damages from Samsung Electronics Co. 005930, +2.53% Thursday in a lawsuit over smartphone tech. Apple stock was up a fraction in the extended session and closed up 0.1% to $188.15 during regular trading. Apple had sought $1 billion in the...

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...