Apple CEO Tim Cook told Reuters on Monday that Apple Watch smartwatch’s “sell-through” touched a new high during the first week of the 2016 holiday shopping season. ‘Sell-through” is a measure of the quantity of a product sold to consumers compared with the stock of the product on retail store shelves.
In asserting that the first week of the 2016 holiday shopping season marked the best week in Apple Watch’s “sell-through” history, Cook said that the ongoing quarter is on its way to become “the best quarter ever” for the Apple smartwatch.
At Apple’s fourth quarter 2016 earnings call on Tuesday, the company’s CEO Tim Cook was asked about Siri digital assistant, home assistants vs. digital assistants, artificial intelligence (AI) and balancing AI with security. His responses to the questions unfolded new insights into Siri's popularity and Apple's privacy standpoint.
The Xinhua News Agency has revealed in a recent report that US tech giant Apple is constructing a new research and development (R&D) facility in Japan.
Apple CEO Tim Cook, who is touring India these days, said during an interaction with NDTV's Vikram Chandra that cultivating the Indian market is a top-five priority for his company.
On Tuesday, GIF startup Giphy announced that it is launching its own standalone keyboard app called Giphy Keys. The app has been designed to become the users' default iOS keyboard, unfolding one of the best experiences available thus far on a GIF keyboard on iOS.
The announcement of the new Giphy Keys app underscores an apparent effort by Giphy to dominate the GIF-sharing arena. The app is presently available only for the iOS platform, but Giphy has said that it is also working on an Android app.
The Huffington Post has revealed in a Monday report that, over this past weekend, the American Enterprise Institute's annual World Forum in Georgia was attended by the CEOs of leading tech companies and some top Republicans.
According to the report citing unidentified sources familiar with the meeting, the main topic of conversation at the secretive World Forum this year was Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump’s bid for the White House.
Technology major Apple increased the salary of CEO Tim Cook more than double after the company's stock increased to record valuation in 2014. The stock market performance and the robust Apple results have been attributed to the successful launch of its latest smartphone models.
According to a stock exchange filing, Cook received $9.22m in total compensation in fiscal year 2014, together with salary of $1.75m and $6.7m in non-equity incentive compensation.
Submitted by Gautam Razdan on Thu, 06/12/2014 - 07:23
With tech giant Apple having announced plans to acquire high-end headphone maker Beats Electronics in a $3 billion deal, two top executives of Apple - CEO Tim Cook and SVP Eddy Cue - are public raving about an a new ad released by Beats.
The latest Beats ad which Cook and Cue are praising is the called 'The Game Before The Game.' The short versions of the ad run on television; while a longer, five-minute runs online, and pivots around the forthcoming World Cup.
Submitted by Gautam Razdan on Wed, 06/04/2014 - 07:23
During its keynote address at the 2014 Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) which began in San Francisco on June 2, tech giant Apple unveiled the much-anticipated iOS 8 version of its mobile operating system, with HealthKit, Home kit and several other features and enhancements.
The latest iOS version, iOS 8, has been built upon the iOS 7 version which was showcased by Apple at the 2013 WWDC event. The iOS 7 version underscored a momentous overhaul of Apple's iOS mobile operating system.
