Macworld Business Spotlight

Apple gives Jony Ive new job title following iOS 7 redesign

team@macworld.co.uk (Ashleigh Allsopp) — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:57:00 GMT

Designer Sir Jonathan Ive has been given a new job title Apple following the redesign of iOS with iOS 7 at WWDC last week.

How Apple shook up the electronic book market

team@macworld.co.uk (Joab Jackson) — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:44:00 GMT

Apple didn't try to fix or raise the prices of electronic books when it entered into the market in 2010, according to Apple Senior Vice President Eddy Cue. Rather, he says, the company was only working to ensure a profit for itself.

Apple emphasizes user-privacy efforts in response to PRISM accusations

team@macworld.co.uk (Dan Frakes) — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:00:00 GMT

In an open letter published to Apple's website Sunday, the company outlined its policies for responding to government requests for information and promised to work to safeguard user privacy.

Apple founder Wozniak 'US is just as bad as communist Russia'

team@macworld.co.uk (Karen Haslam) — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:46:00 GMT

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (Woz) has a very low opinion of the United States right now. In his eyes, the US is no better than the Russia that he was taught about when growing up.

Apple received thousands of data requests from US law enforcers

team@macworld.co.uk (Loek Essers) — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:41:00 GMT

Apple received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests for customer data from U.S. law enforcement between Dec. 1 and May 31, the company said on Monday.

Apple's Eddy Cue keeps it brief in e-book 'price fixing' testimony

team@macworld.co.uk (Joab Jackson) — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:00:00 GMT

Apple VP Eddy Cue gave testimony in Apple's e-book 'price-fixing' trial yesterday, but appeared to have little to say.

Kanye West: I'm the new Steve Jobs

team@macworld.co.uk (David Price) — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:28:00 GMT

US music star Kanye West has compared himself to Apple founder Steve Jobs, and predicted that he will be regarded in a similar way.

'jOBS' Steve Jobs biopic: Cinema launch date announced

team@macworld.co.uk (David Price) — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:49:00 GMT

jOBS, the forthcoming film portraying the life of Apple founder Steve Jobs, will hit cinemas on 16 August, it has been announced.

Google buys Waze and puts the squeeze on Facebook and Apple

team@macworld.co.uk (Sharon Gaudin) — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:23:00 GMT

With Google set to buy app-maker Waze, the question is whether Google actually needs the crowd-sourced traffic app or is simply trying to stick it to its competitors.

Meet the new Apple, same as the old Apple - opinion

team@macworld.co.uk (Dan Moren) — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:46:00 GMT

Watching Apple through the lens of public perception, it would be easy to buy into the idea that the company has been under siege of late. But even if that were the case, it's clear that Apple isn't buying the hype. Each of the executives who took to the stage on Monday conveyed, to a one, both excitement and confidence about the future direction of Apple--and they brought the announcements to prove it.

WWDC 2013 keynote will be streamed live on Apple website, Apple TV

team@macworld.co.uk (David Price) — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:57:00 GMT

Apple will live-stream tonight's WWDC 2013 keynote speech on its website and to Apple TVs, so fans can watch Tim Cook and his team unveil the latest exciting Apple products.

Apple's Tim Cook on following instinct, finding the best people and treating people fairly

team@macworld.co.uk (Karen Haslam) — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:18:00 GMT

Tim Cook visited his alma mater, the Fuqua School of Business, this week and revealed why he decided to take the job at Apple in 1998, what ethics means to him, what to look for in people, writing your own rules, and who his biggest inspiration has been.

What you need to know about the Apple ebook price-fixing suit

team@macworld.co.uk (Dan Moren) — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 13:45:00 GMT

Apple gets involved in a lot of lawsuits - such is the life of any large, prominent corporation. But the trial kicking off this week in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York isn't your run-of-the-mill intellectual property infringement or class action suit: It's an action brought by the U.S. Department of Justice, alleging that Apple colluded with publishers to fix the prices of ebooks at a higher level.

Apple clears out iPad and MacBook stock - new hardware on way?

team@macworld.co.uk (Gregg Keizer) — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 09:00:00 GMT

Microsoft and Apple last week kicked off promotions that may signal inventory clearing as they prepare their next generations of hardware.

Apple's WWDC app features daily videos, Passbook integration

team@macworld.co.uk (Dan Moren) — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 08:54:00 GMT

Apple has released a universal iOS app for both WWDC attendees and those Apple developers who aren't making the trip to San Francisco later this month.

Why Apple was bad for the environment (and why that's changing)

team@macworld.co.uk (David Price) — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 17:18:00 GMT

Why doesn't Apple have a better environmental record? For a company built by a group of long-haired Californian hippies, it's taken Apple a while to come to terms with its responsibilities to the Earth.

Apple ordered to pay out the €5 million it's collected in copying levies in France

team@macworld.co.uk (Loek Essers) — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:31:00 GMT

Apple has to pay out €5 million (US$6.5 million) in home copying levies that it's collected but failed to deliver to the appropriate agency, the Paris High Court ruled on Friday.

Five Apple products that time forgot... until now

team@macworld.co.uk (Benj Edwards) — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 10:48:00 GMT

Think you know every product Apple has released? Think again. Here are five of the most obscure but interesting releases from Apple's long product history.

'Apple in crisis' articles are in crisis

team@macworld.co.uk (The Macalope) — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 09:20:00 GMT

Apple is in crisis! So say half the journalists covering the tech sector. Sadly they're running out of sensible points to make...

'Evidence likely to show Apple fixed e-book prices' - trial judge

team@macworld.co.uk (Marc Ferranti) — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 08:44:00 GMT

The judge at a pre-trial hearing gave every indication that Apple could lose its e-book price-fixing trial, which begins today.

14-year-old worker found dead at possible Asus supplier in China

team@macworld.co.uk (Michael Kan) — Fri, 31 May 2013 13:05:00 GMT

A 14-year-old worker has been found dead after working at an electronics factory in China that may make products for Asus, another potential case of underage labor abuse in the country.

Apple stores to sell chip-and-PIN readers for iPhone

team@macworld.co.uk (Loek Essers) — Fri, 31 May 2013 09:40:00 GMT

Apple will start selling chip-and-PIN credit card readers for iPhones and iPads in its Apple stores, after securing a deal with mobile payment firm Payleven.

Foxconn's Hon Hai sets up new research center in Sharp's backyard

team@macworld.co.uk (Michael Kan) — Fri, 31 May 2013 09:08:00 GMT

Foxconn's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. has set up a new research center devoted to display and touch technologies in Japan that could end up hiring staff away from Sharp.

Apple's next step: reinvent an unsatisfactory product category

team@macworld.co.uk (John Moltz) — Fri, 31 May 2013 08:48:00 GMT

Apple hasn't invented anything lately, goes the complaint. In fact, that was never Apple's style. It doesn't invent, it reinvents, flipping product categories upside down like a cheap card table.

Wozniak criticises Apple's tax practices: 'It's really not fair'

team@macworld.co.uk (Karen Haslam) — Thu, 30 May 2013 16:04:00 GMT

"Why do businessmen get to write off lunches and cars? If normal people did they would have more savings. That is really not fair, that businesses are not treated the same as people," asks Woz.