Apple said on Monday that its new health records service, which lets patients store personal medical data on their phone, will soon be open to app developers and researchers. Consumers who choose to make their encrypted data available to third-party apps, will share that information with developers working on tools like medication tracking, disease management, […]
Read moreAsian markets were mixed on Tuesday, with Japan’s benchmark the only index edging higher in the morning. Japan’s Nikkei 225 gained 0.54 percent and the broader Topix edged up by 0.4 percent. Technology names traded higher in the morning, as did steelmakers, while the mining and oil sectors declined. Elsewhere, South Korea’s benchmark Kospi was […]
Read moreSorry, Apple’s not sorry. There has been a theme at the tech industry’s big conferences this year: Facebook and other tech giants keep telling us that they’ve learned from their mistakes and are going to be a lot more thoughtful about the far-out stuff they plan on doing in the future. Apple has been cool […]
Read moreCNBC’s Jim Cramer knows all too well that the market can’t be driven solely by FANG, his ubiquitous acronym for the stocks of Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, now Alphabet. “On a great day for the bulls where the Dow gained 178 points, the S&P advanced 0.45 percent, and the Nasdaq climbed 0.69 percent to […]
Read moreTimes are changing at Apple. When co-founder Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, he famously pruned the product line to refocus the company on its most beloved products in categories like “consumer,” “pro,” “desktop, and “portable.” Those pieces of hardware would become the pillars of Jobs’ famous speeches and product reveals. His focus is […]
Read moreWhen we first met Apple‘s Siri assistant years ago, we learned how to interact with it in a very specific way: we asked it questions and it tried to answer. Now Siri is changing pretty drastically from that original vision, based on how Apple talked about it at its WWDC developers’ conference on Monday. Instead […]
Read moreTwitter jumped as much as 5 percent in extended trading on Monday, after Dow Jones Indices announced the social media company would replace Monsanto in the S&P 500. Another tech company, Netflix will fill the agricultural giant’s place on the S&P 100. The gains pushed Twitter stock above $39 a share after hours, extending earlier […]
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The Nasdaq composite‘s record close Monday indicates more gains ahead, chart analysts said. The Nasdaq composite and Nasdaq 100 are “both trying to break above their highs from around March and once they do that there’s not a lot of resistance. They’ve got quite a lot of room to run,” said Sameer Samana, global quantitative […]
Read moreSee which stocks are posting big moves after the bell Monday: Shares of Starbucks dropped 1.4 percent in extended trading, after Executive Chairman Howard Schultz announced he would be stepping down effective June 26. Schultz has played an essential role in the success of the coffee company, serving as CEO from 1987 through 2000 and […]
Read moreApple is introducing more controls to allow Safari to control who gets their personal information online, including limiting data tracking across websites. The move helps Apple respond to increasing user concerns about privacy online, but could make it harder for websites and advertisers to target ads efficiently. This will have the most dramatic effect on […]
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