A group of Apple’s (AAPL) chip suppliers are trading lower in the stock market today, ahead of the consumer tech giant’s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings after the close on Tuesday. Is this a bad omen for Apple? Cirrus Logic (CRUS) , which reports its quarterly figures after the close on Wednesday, dropped 11% in heavy volume. The gap-down puts the stock back below its 200-day line, a level that Cirrus Logic just regained last week. Shares are
Good news for Alphabet’s (GOOGL) Google Android Pay and Apple (AAPL) Pay — the number of smartphone owners using mobile payment systems is on the rise and soon the companies’ mobile pay fortunes could take off, too. The news comes as microblog Twitter (TWTR) and leading social network Facebook (FB) have launched “buy now” buttons on their websites. The year 2016 will be one of significant acceleration in the use of mobile phones to pay for goods
It took Apple (AAPL) years to warm up to Wi-Fi calling, finally enabling the feature with the iPhone 6 last year and enriching it with an iOS 9 update in September. How long it’ll take Apple to warm up to LTE technologies that, like Wi-Fi, work in unlicensed spectrum is anybody’s guess — especially amid a festering dispute. Verizon Communications (VZ), AT&T (T) and T-Mobile US (TMUS) plan to use unlicensed spectrum for voice and data services. The