Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk denied reports Friday that he demanded to be Apple (AAPL) CEO during a 2016 phone call in which Apple’s Tim Cook discussed buying the electric vehicle maker. Musk also took a separate swipe at Apple’s App Store fee on Friday, tweeting that it’s a “global tax on the internet.” The tweets from Musk were apparently prompted by a new book from The Wall Street Journal’s Tim Higgins, called “Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk and the Bet of the Century.” That… Source link
Read More »US stock market slips but Apple, Google, and Microsoft report big earnings – Fortune
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Read More »Google and Apple warn delta variant could prove disruptive
While the pandemic had a slight impact on Apple’s sales last year and a slump in advertising affected Google’s revenue, the quarter was huge for both companies. Apple earned $81 billion in the quarter, more than any fiscal second quarter in the company’s history, thanks to soaring sales of iPhones and services, which includes Apple’s streaming service and cloud storage. Google earned $62 billion, a 62 percent increase from the same quarter last year. Source link
Read More »Apple, Google, Microsoft and More
Google parent Alphabet posted $50.44 billion in sales from advertising, a 69% increase helped by a red-hot U.S. market where ad-spending is on track to be the fastest in the postwar era. YouTube’s ad business collected $7 billion in revenue, increasing 84% from a year earlier. The expected results should deepen investor confidence that Alphabet emerged stronger after the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated e-commerce purchases, online food orders and streaming video consumption, analysts say…. Source link
Read More »Apple Q3 earnings look to big iPhone sales, but App Store revenue could slow later this year
Apple’s iPhone 12 is expected to continue to dominate in Q3. (Image: Apple) Apple (AAPL) is set to report its Q3 2021 earnings after the closing bell on Tuesday, and analysts predict strong iPhone sales performance. But a predicted slowdown in future quarters for App Store revenue, thanks to vaccine-related reopenings and tough comparisons to 2020, could send guidance for the coming quarters lower. Here’s what Wall Street is expecting from Apple, as compiled by Bloomberg, versus how it… Source link
Read More »The main attractions arrive: Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Tesla headline the biggest week of earnings
The coming week will be the most important of this quarter’s earnings season — even if later weeks beat it on quantity, it will be nearly impossible to top this slate in terms of dollars and attention. That is because all of Big Tech will report, and those five companies — Google parent Alphabet Inc. GOOGL GOOG, e-commerce and cloud-computing powerhouse Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, iPhone maker Apple Inc. AAPL, … Source link
Read More »Has Apple stock peaked?
An impressive run in Apple’s stock over the last four weeks has left it vulnerable to a short-term pullback, warns one veteran chart watcher. “Apple is just as overbought as it was in early September of last year just before it rolled over in a significant way,” said Matt Maley, Miller Tabak chief markets strategist. “So it looks like it will need to pullback and digest its gains before it takes a run at breaking above its January all-time highs.” Apple’s relative strength index (RSI) —a key… Source link
Read More »Apple ‘worse’ than Google, will be next antitrust target
Apple will be the next major target in the United States’ latest crack down on Big Tech, IAC CEO Joey Levin predicted on CNBC on Friday. Levin said on “Squawk Box” that he believes “Apple’s next, and I think Apple is, in many senses, worse” than Google, which was sued this week by a group of state attorneys general. The AGs alleged that the Alphabet unit abused its power over app developers through its Play Store on Android. Apple has “forced companies into the system,” said Levin, whose… Source link
Read More »If You Invested $1000 in Apple 10 Years Ago, This Is How Much You’d Have Now
How much a stock’s price changes over time is a significant driver for most investors. Not only can price performance impact your portfolio, but it can help you compare investment results across sectors and industries as well. Another thing that can drive investing is the fear of missing out, or FOMO. This particularly applies to tech giants and popular consumer-facing stocks. What if you’d invested in Apple (AAPL) ten years ago? It may not have been easy to hold on to AAPL for all that time,… Source link
Read More »Apple and Google crowd out the competition with default apps
If you use an iPhone or Android phone, chances are the majority of your most-used apps were made by Apple and Google. That’s the takeaway from a new Comscore study that ranks the popularity of preinstalled iOS and Android apps, such as Apple’s Messages, alongside apps made by other developers. The results show that the majority of apps people use on their phones in the US come preinstalled by either Apple or Google. The first-of-its-kind report was commissioned by Facebook, one of… Source link
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