EU watchdog investigating tax breaks from Apple to Starbucks
Tax breaks for Apple, Starbucks and Fiat are under investigation in a clampdown on special treatment for companies.
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Apple Watch: Hotel Tonight
Hotel Tonight is an app that tells you what hotels have rooms available close to you. While it sounds simple, there's far more to it.
How Apple wants all of you
There's a whole world of products out there, but Google and Apple are behind a lot of the ones we choose between every day. Neither company is happy about that fragmentation. They want everyone to use all of their products.
Apple pitch to programmers shows Google threat
Apple's pitch to developers at its annual conference this week shows how CEO Tim Cook is ramping up efforts to keep programmers from switching loyalties to Google and others.
What Apple-Beats union may mean for iTunes users
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Apple's streaming a worry
Musicians are worried that Apple's push into streaming music will pay far less in royalties and will turn music buyers into music listeners.
Apple Watch: WWDC dub-step
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Apple and Google drop lawsuits
Apple and Google have declared a cease-fire in their intellectual-property wars.
Dre boasts riches, Iovine to become billionaire from Apple buyout
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Hip-hop head with biz brain
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IBM veteran leads Apple-Samsung jury to mixed verdict
Apple and Samsung placed their trust in a retired IBM executive with patent litigation experience to give them a fair trial.
Google sued over claims tie-ins hurt competition
Google was sued for allegedly abusing its market power by forcing handheld device makers that use its Android operating system to also provide the search engine company's applications.
Google's stake in Apple-Samsung trial revealed
Google has a strong financial interest in helping Samsung defeat Apple at trial beyond its obligation to pay, it has been revealed.
Samsung says $2b Apple suit is attack on Android
Samsung has told jurors that Apple's patent case is really an attack on Google's Android and a ploy to stem competition that has overwhelmed iPhone sales.
'Transparent iPhones' patent
You are walking down a busy street, eyes down on a text message exchange, when bang - you collide phone - first with a tree, a lamppost or a fellow pedestrian.