• Google's Chromebook wins over classrooms; ousts Apple's iPad

    Google's Chromebook wins over classrooms; ousts Apple's iPad

    Dec 01, 2014 11:05 PM EDT

    Google has ousted Apple as the leading supplier of educational devices to schools, pushing Apple's popular iPad tablet into second place. The Financial Times reported statistics released from market research firm International Data Corporation, revealing that Google shipped 715,000 of their Chromebooks in the third quarter of 2014 ...

  • Apple’s CEO helps open the corporate closet

    Apple’s CEO helps open the corporate closet

    Oct 31, 2014 01:02 AM EDT

    ... GWEN IFILL: Celebrities, athletes and politicians have increasingly gone public about their sexual orientation. But the corporate closet has mostly remained closed. Today, Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, opened that door a but more, declaring in an essay for Bloomberg Businessweek he is gay. "While I have never denied ...

  • Will Apple Pay phase out the wallet?

    Will Apple Pay phase out the wallet?

    Oct 21, 2014 12:25 AM EDT

    ... something with your phone isn't necessarily a new idea. I have been using mine to pay for cabs for the past year. But, today, Apple launches its mobile payment platform called Apple Pay. And here to help us understand how the arrival of Apple into this arena changes the ...

  • Facebook and Apple will pay for employees to freeze their eggs

    Facebook and Apple will pay for employees to freeze their eggs

    Oct 14, 2014 09:46 PM EDT

    ... first foray into covering egg freezing, which costs at least $10,000 per round plus $500 to $800 per year for storage. Both Facebook and Apple will finance up to $20,000 in those costs; Facebook under its “surrogacy benefit” and Apple under its “fertility benefit.” The coverage went into ...

  • That time Apple broke into your music library and left you a Bono

    That time Apple broke into your music library and left you a Bono

    Sep 11, 2014 07:16 PM EDT

    Editor's Note: Apple unveiled a new, bigger iPhone this week, as well as the Apple Watch and a new payment system, Apple Pay. But that's not all they did. Hult Business School marketing professor and consultant Wahyd Vannoni, who writes for the Italian website Linkiesta, is concerned about ...

  • Apple offers new way to access your wallet with your phone

    Apple offers new way to access your wallet with your phone

    Sep 10, 2014 12:43 AM EDT

    ... can Apple continue to rely on that, on its ability to do that, with these three major advancements that were introduced today, the iPhone, the Apple Watch, and Apple Pay? GWEN IFILL: Boy, and we didn't even get to talking about the Apple Watch, because -- mostly because I can ...

  • Apple unveils iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, Apple Watch

    Apple unveils iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, Apple Watch

    Sep 09, 2014 08:49 PM EDT

    ... 128 GB of storage Apple Pay Leave your wallet at home, Apple says. The Apple Pay function -- available October 14 -- will offer wireless payment option. Apple Pay will work with American Express, MasterCard and Visa Using Touch ID security and Secure Element privacy, you can securely set up Apple Pay ...

  • In ‘Haunted Empire,’ a look at life at Apple after Steve Jobs

    In ‘Haunted Empire,’ a look at life at Apple after Steve Jobs

    May 21, 2014 01:34 AM EDT

    ... and outside the company. The upshot is her book, "Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs." Welcome to the program. YUKARI IWATANI KANE, Author, "Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs": Thank you. HARI SREENIVASAN: So, you set out to write kind of a different book about how Apple was going to ...

  • PHOTO: Sports car gets a bird's eye view of the Big Apple

    PHOTO: Sports car gets a bird's eye view of the Big Apple

    Apr 16, 2014 08:49 PM EDT

    A 2015 Ford Mustang sits atop the observation deck of New York's Empire State Building Wednesday in celebration of the sports car's 50th birthday. The automobile was brought up in separate parts and assembled atop the skyscraper, where it will stay on display for a couple of days.

  • Apple bug leaves devices vulnerable to hackers

    Apple bug leaves devices vulnerable to hackers

    Feb 22, 2014 11:39 PM EDT

    If you own an Apple device running on iOS 7, you may need to take a minute over the weekend to install an important security update released by the company on Friday. Vulnerable devices include the iPhone 4 and later, iPod touch, and iPad 2 and later. Security researchers found ...