Latest Apple Headlines

All the headlines from our Apple Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Apple’s China-Centric Supply Chain Braces for Disruption From Coronavirus

Jan 28 2020 // Apple Inc.’s China-centric manufacturing base is at risk of disruption after the Lunar New Year holiday as the company’s partners confront the coronavirus outbreak that has gripped the country and caused more...

Apple Lawsuit in California Tests if Employees Can Plan Startup While on Payroll

Jan 21 2020 // Attorneys for a former Apple Inc executive on Tuesday will try to convince a skeptical judge of a core tenet of tech startup culture – that employees can plan a competing venture while still in a job.Apple’s...

Doctor Claims Apple Watch Infringes His Heart Monitoring Technology Patent

Dec 30 2019 // A New York University cardiologist claims Apple Inc.’s Watch uses his patented heartbeat-monitoring invention and he wants compensation.Dr. Joseph Wiesel, who teaches at NYU School of Medicine, filed a suit Friday...

U.S. Supreme Court Rejects U. of Wisconsin Appeal in Patent Fight with Apple

Oct 7 2019 // The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a bid by the University of Wisconsin’s patent licensing arm to reinstate its legal victory against Apple Inc. in a fight over computer processor technology that the school...

Recalled Apple MacBook Laptops Banned from Flights Due to Batteries

Aug 14 2019 // U.S. airline safety regulators banned select MacBook Pro laptops on flights after Apple Inc. recently said that some units had batteries that posed a fire risk.In a statement, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said...

Apple Faces Privacy Lawsuit Over Listening to Siri Users’ Recordings

Aug 8 2019 // Apple Inc. was sued over claims that the privacy of Siri users was violated when human reviewers listened to customer recordings.The lawsuit was filed as a class action Wednesday, just days after Apple said it would pause...

The Hilb Group Acquires Massachusetts’ Handy-Apple Valley

Aug 1 2019 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG) has acquired Massachusetts-based Handy-Apple Valley LLC (HAV). The transaction became effective July 1, 2019. Located in Worcester, Mass., HAV provides personal and commercial insurance. As a part...

Supreme Court Apple Ruling May Increase Liability Exposure for Digital Platforms

May 14 2019 // Consumers can press ahead with a lawsuit that accuses Apple Inc. of using its market dominance to artificially inflate prices at its App Store, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled.The 5-4 decision Monday could add to pressure the...

Student Sues Apple for $1 Billion, Blames Face-Recognition Tech for False Arrest

Apr 23 2019 // Apple is being sued for $1 billion in damages by an 18-year-old college student who blames the company’s facial recognition software for his false arrest and for wrongly tying him to thefts at Apple stores in several...

Lawyer Suit Says FaceTime Eavesdropped on Talks with Client

Jan 30 2019 // Apple Inc. was sued by a Houston lawyer who claims his iPhone inadvertently allowed an unknown person to eavesdrop on his private conversation with a client.Apple has come under fire for a bug in its iOS 12.1 iPhone...

Court Upholds $440 Million Patent Infringement Judgment Against Apple

Jan 16 2019 // A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld a judgment worth $440 million that was won by intellectual property licensing firm VirnetX Inc. against Apple Inc. in a patent infringement case.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the...

Apple CEO Calls for U.S. Privacy Law to Protect User Data

Oct 24 2018 // Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said on Wednesday customer data was being “weaponised with military efficiency” by companies to increase profit.Cook, speaking at the International Conference of Data Protection...

Stolen Apple IDs Used by Hackers to Steal Cash, Warn Chinese Digital Payments Firms

Oct 11 2018 // Ant Financial’s Alipay and Tencent Holdings Ltd. warned that cyber attackers employed stolen Apple IDs to break into customers’ accounts and made off with an unknown amount of cash, in a rare security breach...

Court Tosses $234M Award Against Apple in U. Wisconsin Patent Lawsuit

Oct 1 2018 // Apple Inc. persuaded a federal appeals court on Sept. 28 to throw out a $234 million damages award in favor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s patent licensing arm for infringing a patent on computer processing...

Big High Tech Is Big on Reimagining Health Care

Sep 17 2018 // Apple Inc.’s new watch is the latest proof: Big Tech is trying to remake health care in its own image.The device, introduced at a splashy launch event this week, can call for help after a fall. It can monitor...

Accident Report Confirms Apple Still in Autonomous Car Race

Sep 4 2018 // An Apple Inc. self-driving car was rear-ended while merging onto an expressway near the company’s Silicon Valley headquarters this month, the company said in an accident report posted on Friday that confirmed the...

Taiwan iPhone Chipmaker Scrambles to Recover After Debilitating Computer Virus

Aug 6 2018 // Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), which makes chips for the iPhone and other devices, is recovering from a debilitating computer virus but warned of delayed shipments and reduced revenue because of the impact...

Apple, Samsung Finally Settle Long-Running Patent Dispute

Jun 28 2018 // The biggest patent battle of the modern technology world has finally come to an end after seven years.Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. told a judge Wednesday they’d resolved the first filed but last remaining...

Apple Awarded $540M in Big Patent Win Over Smartphone Rival Samsung

May 24 2018 // After nearly five days of deliberations, a U.S. jury on Thursday said Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd should pay $539 million to Apple Inc. for copying patented smartphone features, according to court documents, bringing a...

Why It’s Important to Find the Agency’s ‘Why’

May 21 2018 // A new book, “Start with Why” by Simon Sinek covered this topic and gave us inspiration for this article.“When you fill an organization with ‘good fits,’ those who believe what you believe;...