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Apple
Apple designs and sells consumer electronics and personal computers, and also operates retail stores and streaming service Apple TV+. It is one of the world’s biggest companies and the second-largest mobile phone-maker after Samsung.
Chairman / President
Arthur D. Levinson
CEO / Managing Director
Tim Cook
Tim Cook
CFO / Finance Director
Luca Maestri
Industry
Computer hardware. Computer software. Consumer electronics. Digital distribution
Website
apple.com
Headquarters address
Apple Campus, Cupertino, California, U.S.
Stock Code
NASDAQ: AAPL
Year founded
1976
last updated:
27 August, 2024
A view from inside the Apple Store at the IFC Mall in Shanghai’s Lujiazui financial district. Photo: Shutterstock
Artificial intelligence

Apple forms Shanghai data-processing venture as AI push in China still in limbo

The Shanghai unit of Apple will focus on software development, big data services, storage services and data processing.

Climate change

Opinion | How AI giants can help Asian suppliers make a clean energy transition

Alibaba

Alibaba studio pulls top mobile game from Vivo’s app store

Huawei

Huawei’s Android rival scores major win as WeChat gets on board

The US-sanctioned Chinese company hopes to have 100,000 apps in its self-developed mobile operating system this year.

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Huawei’s French headquarters in Boulogne-Billancourt near Paris. Photo: Reuters
TSMC

Apple and Nvidia chip supplier TSMC’s sales top estimates, boosting AI in 2025

The world’s largest contract chipmaker reported a 39 per cent rise in October-December revenue to US$26.3 billion.

Smartphones

Apple’s pricey iPhones ineligible under China’s new subsidy scheme

China’s latest stimulus measure offers a 15 per cent subsidy for purchases of smartphones, tablets and smartwatches.

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Artificial intelligence

Alibaba powers AI drive of Transsion, top Chinese smartphone vendor in Africa

Alibaba’s Tongyi Qianwen model will enable the GenAI features of the Phantom V Fold2, Transsion’s latest 5G smartphone under its Tecno brand.

Alibaba Cloud’s partnership with Transsion will enable generative artificial intelligence services in the Phantom V Fold2 5G smartphone. Photo: Phantom
Indonesia

Apple’s US$1 billion investment in Indonesia fails to lift iPhone 16 sales ban

Apple’s iPhone 16 remains banned in Indonesia because it has failed to meet local content rules.

Honor

China’s Honor targets Indonesia’s growing appetite for premium smartphones

Honor expects to initially launch more than 30 products this year in Indonesia, where it plans to open over 10 ‘experience’ stores.

iPhone

iPhone supplier TDK rolls out new batteries to keep pace with AI

Hong Kong-based subsidiary Amperex first introduced lithium-ion cells with silicon anodes in 2023 after years of research and fine-tuning.

A man checks an iPhone 16 Pro Max at an Apple store in Beijing, China September 20, 2024. Photo: Reuters
Smartphones

Apple, smartphone peers lose ground in China amid Huawei comeback

Shipments by overseas handset makers in China plunged 47.3 per cent year on year in November, according to a state-run agency.

Men check out an iPhone 16 Pro at an Apple store in Beijing on September 20, 2024. Photo: Reuters
Fame and celebrity

Meet Rose Zhang, the ‘Mozart of golf’ who’s also a Rolex brand ambassador

The 21-year-old rising star has already won 2 pro tournaments and banked US$2.5 million in career earnings, and has lucrative endorsement deals to boot – including a workout series on Apple Fitness+.

Smartphones

Apple agrees to pay US$95m to settle Siri eavesdropping lawsuit

The class-action lawsuit accuses Apple of recording private conversations after Siri was unintentionally activated.

Technology

Opinion | Asia’s embrace of refurbished smartphones is a trend to dial into in 2025

It’s great for the environment, for brands looking to seduce customers into switching and for consumers hunting for a bargain.

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A worker repairs a mobile phone in a shop in Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong, in 2017. Photo: AFP
Smartphones

Apple offers fresh price cuts on iPhones in China as Huawei competition heats up

A promotion running from January 4 to 7 will provide Chinese consumers a US$68 discount on Apple’s top-of-the-line iPhone 16 Pro models.

Apple’s latest sales promotion in China, covering iPhones and other products, will also be available at its bricks-and-mortar stores on the mainland. Photo: Shutterstock
Asean

Opinion | In a Trump 2.0 trade war against China, Vietnam stands to benefit again

With its growing hi-tech manufacturing and US partnership in trade and security, Vietnam will be a critical beneficiary of the economic fallout.

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US-China tech war

US-sanctioned Wingtech shifts focus to chips, citing geopolitics

The Shanghai-listed company says it will sell its consumer-electronics contract manufacturing business to focus on semiconductors.

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Huawei

Huawei slashes prices in fight for China’s smartphone market share

The company is offering a markdown of up to 20 per cent for its premium handsets in its official online store.

Customers look at Huawei’s Pura 70 series smartphones at a flagship store in Beijing. Photo: Reuters
Year in Review

Gadget stories you read most in 2024, about the iPhone 16 Pro Max and more

We look back at our 5 most-read gadgets stories of 2024, from one about a world-first handheld device for ear surgery to an iPhone 16 review.

Indonesia

What Apple’s US$1 billion investment pledge means for Indonesia’s tech sector

Apple’s offer shows Indonesia’s push for local content rules is starting to pay off, but new entrants to its tech sector could be deterred, analysts note.

Tencent

Tencent and smartphone maker Honor team up on AI while Apple lags behind

Tencent is providing cloud computing resources to strengthen Honor’s AI offerings while Apple Intelligence is still absent in China.

An Honor retail store seen in Shanghai on July 31, 2022. Photo: Shutterstock
Baidu

Apple in talks with Tencent, ByteDance to launch AI in China, report says

The iPhone maker is reportedly in early talks with the tech giants to launch Apple Intelligence on the mainland after talks stalled with Baidu.

Apple has faced challenges in launching Apple Intelligence on its iPhones in mainland China owing to the country’s strict regulation of the technology. Photo: AP
Mobile gaming

New Pokémon mobile game downloaded over 60 million times in 6 weeks

Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket ranks second among mobile games measured by their first-month revenue, surpassed only by 2016’s Pokémon Go.

Technology

Opinion | From TikTok to Apple, companies must tread carefully amid digital nationalism

Restrictive policies could hinder innovation, limit consumer choice and fragment the global digital economy.

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Smartphones

Apple nears switch to in-house Bluetooth, Wi-fi chips for iPhone

The chip, code-named Proxima, has been in development for several years and is now slated to go into the first products in 2025.

An iPhone display seen inside India’s first Apple retail store in Mumbai on April 17, 2023. Photo: Reuters
Christmas

Christmas 2024 gift guide: level up your man’s accessories game

With a jacket from Italian tailor Rubinacci, Purdey trousers and a Montblanc pen, any man will look and feel like a million dollars.

Gifts to make a man the very picture of elegance, like this look from Dunhill shows. Photo: Dunhill
Artificial intelligence

Apple continues AI roll-out to iPhones with customised emojis

The iPhone’s upgraded operating system, iOS 18.2, extends Apple’s expansion into AI as it chases Samsung and Google.

Smartphones

Huawei premium smartphone shipments surge, as Apple leads segment in China

Mainland shipments of Huawei’s premium-priced smartphones – handsets that cost more than US$600 – rose 34 per cent in the third quarter.

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