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How Apple Empowers, and Employs, the American Working Class

During the presidential campaign, President-elect Donald J. Trump complained that America had lost too many manufacturing jobs and promised to force big companies like Apple to bring that work home.

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Review: new MacBook Pro great for average consumer, but not power users

The techies’ gripes about Apple’s latest laptop lacking an SD card reader and the right ports are justified if you’re a heavy user. For the rest of us, this is the machine to get for surfing the web, consuming media and touch screen emojis

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Dongle dilemma provokes Apple price cut

A tweet posted shortly after Apple’s recent Macbook launch event underlined the absurdity: Apple now sells 17 different types of dongle.

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Apple adds touch screen keys to MacBook Pro, price jump startles some

Apple Inc unveiled a revamped MacBook Pro on Thursday, adding a fingerprint reader, replacing function keys with a small touch screen and raising prices by several hundred dollars.

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Apple says AirPod shipments to be delayed

Apple Inc said on Wednesday that its wireless AirPod headphones, which were suppose to hit the market this month, will be delayed.

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Apple's holiday surprise: big sales, not so big profits

Apple Inc posted its third successive quarter of declining iPhone sales on Tuesday and forecast slimmer-than-expected profit margins over the upcoming holiday season even as it projected record sales, sending its shares down.

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Apple hires Carnegie Mellon AI academic in push into machine learning

Apple hired a prominent artificial intelligence researcher from Carnegie Mellon University as it seeks to regain lost ground against competitors such as Google, Microsoft and Amazon.com in machine learning.

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Who can fill the Note 7 vacuum?

Apple, Google, Huawei and LG are going all-out for a bigger slice of the global smartphone market in the peak Christmas season this year, emboldened by the disaster surrounding Samsung's Galaxy Note 7.

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Apple to set up second China research center

​Apple has decided to set up a research and development center in Shenzhen, its second facility in China after Beijing, to focus on manufacturing and software development.

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Google takes on Apple, Amazon with new hardware push

Alphabet Inc's Google on Tuesday announced a new "Pixel" smartphone and a suite of new consumer electronics products for the home, planting itself firmly in the hardware business and challenging Apple Inc's iPhone at the high end of the $400 billion global smartphone market.

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OECD official says EU Apple ruling not precedent for future tax cases

A multi-billion euro back tax bill handed to Apple by the European Commission should not be seen as a precedent for future tax cases as it was based on state aid rather than tax law, the OECD official spearheading global tax reform said on Monday.

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Apple buys India startup Tuplejump to expand machine learning capabilities

Apple has acquired Indian machine-learning startup Tuplejump Software Pvt Ltd as it seeks to expand its expertise in artificial intelligence.

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Supercar maker McLaren says not in discussion with Apple

McLaren damped down a report on Wednesday that Apple Inc had made an approach for the British Formula One team owner and supercar maker.

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Apple's iPhone 7 more expensive to make: IHS Markit

Apple is spending more to manufacture its iPhone 7 smartphone than predecessor iPhone 6S due to features such as a bigger battery and larger storage capacity, according to a teardown by IHS Markit Ltd.

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The Apple store line is dying as iPhone fans order more online

The frayed scrap of paper taped to the sidewalk outside Apple's flagship store in San Francisco's Union Square had a simple message: US$5 (S$7) for photographs.

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iPhone launch generates crowds, queues worldwide

Apple's global iPhone launch Friday was marked by excitement and frustration as fans queued to find scarce models of the coveted smartphone.

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Apple fixes 'bricking' update flaw

Apple says it has fixed a problem that was “bricking” people’s devices while updating to the latest operating system.