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Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will reportedly buy Beats for $3.2 billion as early as next week according to the Financial Times. The big question is why? The answer, Re/Code said, comes in two-parts - headphones and streaming. For $3.2 billion, more than Apple has paid for any acquisition, the company...

Shares of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) rose more than eight percent after the company announced a surprise 7-for-1 stock split. As of this writing, Apple is hovering near $600 -- an achievement not seen since November 2012. Before earnings and the stock split were revealed, Creative Global predicted that...

Sony and Samsung may have been the first to market, but Trip Chowdhry thinks that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) will dominate as soon as it enters the wearable technology market. "When we go to these conferences and when we talk to the developers, developers are very excited with what Google is going to...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will report its second quarter results on Wednesday after market close. Apple is expected to earn $10.13 per share on revenue of $43.55 billion. Apple reported its first quarter results on January 27 when its earnings of $14.50 per share blew past the consensus estimate of $14...

The clock is ticking for Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) long-awaited smart watch. Rumors claim that it could arrive in September 2014, but investors shouldn't forget that Apple was also expected to release a wearable device last September. Unfortunately, it might be too late for Apple to enter the market...

The iPhone 6, iWatch and iPad Air 2 are months away from release, but the hype keeps getting bigger and bigger for all three devices. This helped give Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) a much-needed boost in media attention this week -- especially after losing the spotlight to Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) Fire TV...

Shipments of wearable computing, especially of the functional and stylish variety, will exceed 19 million units in 2014, according to research from International Data Corporation released Apr. 10. In addition, IDC reported that by 2018 the worldwide market would grow to nearly 112 million units...

As anybody who follows the Apple rumor mill knows, one or two random rumors usually means nothing -- but if the pace of these true or untrue stories picks up, there's a good chance something is in the company's pipeline. And recently, the pace of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iWatch rumors has quickened...

Could Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) benefit from another executive shuffle? Between Peter Oppenheimer's retirement, the removal of Scott Forstall and a handful of other execs coming and going, Apple is slowly becoming a different company. Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry -- one of the...

Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) finances are about to be placed in new hands. The Cupertino, California-based tech giant has announced that its Senior VP and Chief Financial Officer, Peter Oppenheimer, will retire at the end of September. Oppenheimer joined Apple in 1996 and became CFO in 2004. He...

This week Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) announced its plan to acquire Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) in what could be the largest merger of the year. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is rumored to have beefed up its iWatch development team even though the device itself has yet to be confirmed. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG...

U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday as the Federal Reserve's new Chief Janet Yellen reassured investors that she is the right person for the job. In her congressional testimony, Yellen promised to stay the course in regards to the Federal Open Market Committee's approach to monetary policy. Yellen also...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) made plenty of news Monday. Here are some stories you may have missed. Apple Faced 92 Patent Suits in the Past Three Years In a rare move for Apple, its lawyers were uncharacteristically candid with their comments. Over the past three years, Apple has faced 92 patent...

Another week of rumors, exec appointments and a surprise acquisition from Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN). Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) highly secretive (but continually rumored) smart watch received another publicity boost when a $299 price tag was thrown around the rumor mill. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT)...

Shares of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) ended the day 1.5 percent higher as it continues to hold the $500 level despite severe market pressure. But the strong price action in the stock isn’t all that making news. Here are some of the headlines from Tuesday that made news. Rumor: iPhone 4 Production...