Apple (AAPL) reportedly yanked “a few” applications from its App Store on Thursday that could be used to install certificates that would allow developers to spy on their users’ encrypted data, according to TechCrunch . It wasn’t clear how many applications were deleted nor when they might return. TechCrunch quoted an Apple spokesperson as saying, “We’ve removed a few apps from the App Store that install root certificates which enable the
Apple Pay is finally coming to Starbucks’ U.S. stores by year-end, more than a year after Apple (AAPL) launched its mobile wallet. But coffee drinkers might stick with Starbucks’ own app to earn points and perks through a loyalty program. Starbucks (SBUX) says its mobile-wallet app, introduced in 2010, has 16 million active users. Starbucks says it garners more than 19% of U.S. revenue from mobile payments. Apple’s mobile-payments service will be
Netflix (NFLX) has 10 billion reasons to hike subscriber prices, something bears on the stock know and bulls tend to gloss over. That’s more than $10 billion in streaming content obligations over the next five years — cash Netflix must fork over to programmers for rights to TV shows. That doesn’t include its own growing expenses for developing original content. And that $10 billion could be table stakes if Apple (AAPL) enters the video streaming