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Last month, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced a new direction for his company. Yes, it will still sell iPhones, Macs and AirPods, but now it’ll also focus on the stuff you watch, listen to and play on those devices. Apple TV Plus, a video streaming service; Apple Arcade, a paid package of games; and Apple …

Spotify surpassed 100 million subscribers at the end of March, the music streaming service said Monday in its first-quarter report.  That keeps Spotify above its closest competitor, Apple Music; Apple CEO Tim Cook said in January that Apple Music hit 50 million subscribers at the end of last year.  As society worldwide has shifted to streaming as the most common way …

Apple on Sunday fired back at a New York Times report that said the company has been using its hold on the App Store to hurt competitors’ products. A Saturday report in the Times said that in the past year, Apple has targeted 11 of the 17 most downloaded third-party apps designed to help phone users limit screen time or oversee their children’s …

Apple is facing further scrutiny over whether it’s using its hold on the App Store to hurt competitors’ products. A Saturday report in The New York Times says that in the past year, Apple has targeted 11 of the 17 most downloaded third-party apps designed to help phone users limit screen time or oversee their children’s phone use. Apple either …

To celebrate Earth Day today and promote its own conversation efforts, Apple has posted an in-depth account of its partnership with Conservation International to support a 27,000-acre mangrove forest in Colombia. The company says the forest will eventually sequester 1 million metric tons of CO2.  Conservation International says that coastal ecosystems, when damaged, emit their carbon reserves into the atmosphere. The organization …

Apple and Qualcomm have settled their patent licensing battle, ending a two-year dispute the day after their trial kicked off in San Diego.  The two sides announced the surprise agreement through a joint press release Tuesday at the same time lawyers were presenting their opening arguments in a courthouse in Southern California. Apple and its contract manufacturers had given their …

When it comes to Apple vs. Qualcomm, the Federal Trade Commission trial in January was just a dress rehearsal. Now it’s time for the real show. The two technology giants meet on Monday in a San Diego courtroom to kick off a five-week, $27 billion trial that’ll determine whether Qualcomm operates a smartphone modem chip monopoly and charges too much …

It’s not just Apple going green. Many of its suppliers also are making a vow to run on renewable energy. Apple early Thursday morning said it has nearly doubled the number of suppliers — now totaling 44 — that have committed to running their Apple production on 100% clean energy. Because of that, Apple will also beat its aim of …

The next time you think of Apple and artificial intelligence, it might be about more than how frustrating Siri can be. The tech giant poached Ian Goodfellow, a high-profile scientist in the artificial intelligence world, from Google last month. CNBC spotted the move when Goodfellow, who helped invent a new approach to the technology, updated his LinkedIn page to indicate he’s …

Apple has cut the prices of some of its most popular products — including the iPhone, iPad, AirPods and Mac computers — on its online store for Chinese consumers. Though pricing changes vary from product to product, most of the decreases are around 5 percent, according to CNBC, which first reported the news. For example, on Apple’s Chinese website, a …