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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
Apple and Google have restored TikTok to their respective US app stores. Photo: Reuters
TikTok

Apple, Google restore TikTok app in US after assurances from Trump

The Chinese video app briefly went dark last month to comply with a federal ban.

Donald Trump

Trump unveils reciprocal blanket tariffs review of all major US trading partners

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Smartphones

Apple partners with Alibaba in AI as Chinese rivals embrace DeepSeek

Alibaba

Alibaba’s Joe Tsai hails DeepSeek as open-source inspiration for AI developers

‘Let’s find out what are the actual problems in the world and use AI to solve them’, Tsai says at the World Governments Summit.

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Media entrepreneur Jeffrey Katzenberg (left) talks to Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai about artificial intelligence at the World Governments Summit in Dubai on February 13, 2025. Photo: Alibaba
US-China trade war

China’s ‘iPhone City’ eerily quiet as Foxconn moves production amid trade war

The giant iPhone assembly plant in Zhengzhou has cut back on hiring as Apple loses market share in China and Foxconn shifts production overseas.

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Artificial intelligence

Apple’s AI partnership with Alibaba excites Chinese iOS developers

App developers called Alibaba’s open-source Qwen models the ‘ideal’ choice, as news of the deal lifted sentiment about Apple’s China prospects.

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Alibaba

Alibaba’s AI deal with Apple lifts Hong Kong shares by most in 2 years

The deal, which leverages Alibaba’s Qwen AI model, could boost iPhone sales in China and solidify Alibaba’s position as a leading AI player.

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Alibaba’s Qwen AI model currently powers the world’s top 10 open-source large language models. Photo: Reuters
Alibaba

Alibaba pairs with Apple to develop AI features for China iPhones

The US tech giant wants Alibaba’s Qwen AI model to make up for loss of Apple Intelligence on its iPhones in China.

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European Union

Europe forced Apple to allow other app stores. Porn quickly followed

Marketed as the ‘first Apple-approved porn app’, the software has been made available to iPhone users in the EU under new digital rules.

Alibaba

Alibaba named most admired Chinese internet company by Fortune

The e-commerce giant trails only Amazon and Alphabet in the internet service and retailing category.

Alibaba’s office in Nanjing, eastern Jiangsu province. Photo: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images
DeepSeek

DeepSeek’s AI breakthrough could alter China’s ‘national fate’ in US tech war

‘We should have confidence that China will eventually win the AI war with the US,’ Qihoo 360’s Zhou Hongyi said in a Weibo post.

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Artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek was spun off from Chinese hedge-fund manager High-Flyer Quant. Photo: Reuters
Parenting: teens

How Apple’s parental control features are child’s play to override

Security measures on Apple iPhones, iPads and Macs to protect children from unsuitable content don’t work, recent software tests show.

US-China relations

Trump tells Davos he is hopeful about US-China ties as he warns on tariffs

American leader touts ‘very good’ relationship with Xi Jinping amid ‘massive’ trade deficits with Beijing.

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Smartphones

Samsung unveils AI-powered Galaxy S25 smartphones running only Qualcomm chips

Samsung unveiled new AI features in its latest handsets, which do not use any of the company’s Exynos processors, in a setback for its chip business.

People try the latest Galaxy smartphones, including the Galaxy S25, the Galaxy S25 Plus, and the Galaxy S25 Ultra AI during the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2025 winter event in San Jose, California, on January 22. Photo: Reuters
Video gaming

Tencent’s Honor of Kings spin-off gets green light from Chinese gaming regulator

While the launch date is unclear, there is hope it will be rolled out this year as it was featured in the iPhone 16 release last September.

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A screenshot from the trailer for Honour of Kings: World. Image: TiMi Studio Group
US-China relations

Opinion | With deal-maker Trump, business cooperation could reset US-China ties

China can take a lesson from 1980s Japan, which defused bilateral frictions by strategically pivoting towards direct investment in US manufacturing.

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TSMC

TSMC’s US plant unlikely to get latest chip technology ahead of Taiwan, CEO says

Apple and Nvidia chip supplier TSMC is spending US$65 billion on three giant factories in the state of Arizona.

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Semiconductors

Nvidia CEO skips Trump’s inauguration for Lunar New Year Asia visit

Jensen Huang is expected to miss the ceremony, while Apple’s Tim Cook, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Tesla’s Elon Musk are attending.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends the opening ceremony of a plant of Siliconware Precision Industries in Taiwan on Thursday. Photo: Reuters
United States

How a TikTok ban in the US would work – and why user workarounds won’t

Users could try to access a web-based version of TikTok via a browser while using a VPN, but the web version lacks many features of the app.

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Smartphones

Apple trails Huawei, Vivo in China smartphone market in 2024

iPhone shipments plummeted 25 per cent in China last quarter, pushing Apple to third place for the year amid rising competition.

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TSMC

TSMC logs record quarterly profit as AI demand surges

Stock price of the world’s largest contract chipmaker has leapt despite uncertainty posed by Donald Trump.

A TSMC facility at a science park in Tainan. Photo: Reuters
United States

Biden’s semiconductor law will boost US chip production at high cost: report

Subsidies behind the expected chipmaking boom mean that each job created will cost taxpayers about US$185,000 a year.

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US President Joe Biden announces a preliminary agreement with Intel for a major Chips and Science Act award in Arizona in 2024. Photo: Reuters
Semiconductors

UBTech Robotics aims to revolutionise Foxconn’s iPhone factories in China

UBTech and Foxconn have signed a ‘comprehensive long-term partnership’ to deploy more robots in the iPhone maker’s factories.

TikTok

China’s TikTok sellers eye Amazon and Shein as US ban looms

Cross-border merchants in China are bracing for an impending ban on TikTok in the US.

Smartphones

Apple leads smartphone market in fourth quarter, overcoming China decline

iPhone shipments surged to grab 23 per cent of the market in the final quarter of 2024, as a rebounding market saw growth start to slow.

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Women check out the iPhone 16 at an Apple Store in London on October 6, 2024. Sales of the company’s latest handset helped push to the top of the market in the fourth quarter. Photo: Reuters
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.

A view from inside the Apple Store at the IFC Mall in Shanghai’s Lujiazui financial district. Photo: Shutterstock
Climate change

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

The likes of Microsoft, Google and Nvidia can invest in clean energy, boost suppliers’ renewables capacity and advocate for better policies.

Alibaba

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

The move comes amid ongoing disputes between Chinese video game companies and smartphone brands over app-store commission rates.

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