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As part of Apple’s earnings releases, Apple has announced an extension to its buyback plans. The company will now buyback an additional $30 billion of Apple stock, totalling $90 billion, significantly accelerating its original plans. The board has also announced a seven-for-one stock split beginning June 2nd 2014. Apple last split its stock in 2005, nine years ago. Apple will also increase the dividend by about 8 percent to $3....

Reuter’s reports today that Apple will expand its current five-store presence in China to the industrial cities of Chengdu and Shenzhen. Interestingly, both of those cities are where Foxconn produces iPhones and iPads (or have in the past). The Chengdu plant is where Want China Times (via MCV) reports a riot broke out late last night with male workers “taking advantage of a minor disturbance to address prior grievances.” The pessimist would say: Now those hundreds of thousands of factory workers can save a few months wage and head across town to buy something they make hundreds of every day....

Apple today announced it has ordered a new thriller series for Apple TV+ called ‘Shining Girls’. The show will star Elisabeth Moss, who you might recognize as the actress who plays the lead role in popular drama series The Handmaids Tale. The series is based off a best-selling novel of the same name. The drama follows Moss’s character as a Chicago reporter, who was badly assaulted in the past. She tries to trace down her attacker....

The Environmental Law Institute has today announced that Apple’s VP of environment, policy and social initiatives, Lisa Jackson, has won its distinguished 2018 Environmental Achievement Award. In a press release, ELI shared that the award was “in recognition of her visionary leadership and outstanding environmental stewardship over a most distinguished career.” Before starting her current role at Apple in 2013, Jackson was an administrator at the EPA and dealt with events such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill....

Apple Watch is a great device for tracking health and fitness goals, and one important aspect of that is how much energy you’re burning. Follow along for how to see your calories burned on Apple Watch for active and passive metrics plus your daily total. Apple Watch keeps track of your active calories burned, and your Move ring shows that progress compared to your daily goal. But Apple Watch also tracks your total calories burned which is your active plus passive calories....

Apple unveiled its 2018 iPhone and Apple Watch lineup yesterday at Steve Jobs Theater, and preorders for the iPhone Xs, iPhone Xs Max, and Apple Watch Series 4 are slated to begin at 12:01AM PT tonight. What do you plan on ordering tonight? The Apple Watch Series 4 includes a handful of new features and changes, perhaps most notably of which is a 30 percent larger display. The device also offers new health features, a thinner body, a new Digital Crown, and much more....

Following the try-on appointments that allowed 15 minutes hands-on time with an Apple Watch (or an hour for the Edition), Apple is offering Apple Watch Basics workshops at selected retail stores. Appointments can be booked now, and the earliest workshops take place on the official (or perhaps now unofficial) launch date of 24th April. It’s unlikely many people will have received their Apple Watch by this date, and you won’t be able to buy one in-store before June, but if the tutorial videos or unofficial cheat-sheet still leave you wanting more, the workshops seem a good opportunity to get to grips with the new device … So far, the stores offering the workshop appear fairly random, and there’s no obvious way to find out which stores offer them other than trial-and-error....

Apple has released an update to its Podcasts app on the App Store today that introduces a few new features and fixes. The update brings a pull to refresh function for subscriptions in the My Podcasts section, improvements to overall stability, and a few fixes for bugs related to playback and subscriptions: • You can now pull to refresh subscriptions in My Podcasts • Resolved an issue that may cause playback to stop unexpectedly • Fixed a problem where subscriptions may stop updating with new episodes • Includes additional improvements to overall stability...

Apple has dramatically increased the number of self driving vehicles it is testing, Bloomberg reports. The company first received approval from state officials last spring to test three self driving cars on the road, but new inquiries to the California DMW show Apple has since expanded its test fleet to 27 vehicles total. Like other companies testing self-driving car technology, Apple specifically deploys Lexus RX450h model SUVs equipped with loads of data collecting sensors....

Each publisher had different counterproposals, Apple said in a filing that described tough negotiations in detail. “Early — and constant — points of negotiation and contention were over Apple’s price caps and 30 percent commission. After Apple sent draft agency agreements to each publisher CEO on January 11, each immediately opposed Apple’s price tiers and caps,” Apple said in its 81-page proposed findings of fact. Apple is now the only defendant in the case filed in April 2012 as the 4 other publishers originally accused in the lawsuit, including Pearson, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, and HarperCollins, have already reached settlements and agreed to return to their old pricing scheme for a certain period of time....

Apple today published its annual meeting of shareholders notice and proxy statement. Filed with the SEC, the document confirms that Apple will hold its annual meeting of shareholders on March 4, 2022. The meeting, which is usually held at Steve Jobs Theater, will take place completely virtually this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Apple says that the annual meeting of shareholders will be virtual this year to “provide a safe experience for our shareholders and employees....

Apple announced this week that it will release its earnings report for the third quarter of fiscal 2022 on Thursday, October 27. Just like in the previous announcements, the company will release its Q4 2022 earnings report, then hold a conference call with investors and analysts to provide more detail. Apple’s Q3 2022 results and what’s next for Q4 2022 Apple’s Q4 2022 covers the months of July, August, and September....

On the heels of releasing iOS 11 today, Apple has published a few new how-to videos to its YouTube channel promoting what’s now possible with its latest mobile OS and iPad. About a month ago, Apple released 6 videos showcasing iPad + iOS 11 features and new ways to make the tablet more capable than ever. Today’s videos include 3 new one-minute long how-to shorts as part of the same series released last month and one video that has been updated....

Apple Stores in Germany will be among the next to reopen after extended closures in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Following reopenings across South Korea, Austria, and Australia in recent weeks, Germany’s 15 Apple Stores will all reopen on May 11 at 11:00 A.M. Germany hasn’t mitigated coronavirus infections to the extent of other regions where Apple Stores have reopened, but the country has seen a steady decline in daily new cases for over a month....

Apple is reclosing all of its stores in the greater Melbourne area of Australia as portions of the state of Victoria prepare to enforce new lockdown measures. Australia has reported a growing number of COVID-19 infections over the past several weeks and is reimposing travel and business restrictions as a preventative measure. Apple Highpoint in the Melbourne suburb of Maribyrnong was the first store in Australia to reclose on July 2 as the public health situation began to deteriorate....

Apple has yet another court case on their hands with Bloomberg reporting that Seattle-based Cequint Inc. is seeking unspecified damages related to claims Apple products infringe on caller ID related patents. The company also wants the court in Wilmington, Delaware, where the complaint was filed yesterday, to issue a court order preventing Apple from using the technology in dispute. While we don’t have many more details regarding the case and Cequint’s claims, it’s important to note the company has close ties with major U....

Apple’s television advertisements have earned three places on Adweek’s 25 Best Ads of 2018 annual list, which highlights the best media ads ranging from print to film. Apple’s highest spot ranking on the list, #2, was for its Spike Jonze directed-critically acclaimed ‘Welcome Home’ ad. This isn’t the first time the company has seen massive celebration over the HomePod advert, with Adweek previously conducting a highly featured behind-the-scenes video. The company took 19th place for its ‘Unlock’ advertisement, which featured a high school girl yielding special ‘unlock’ powers with just a glance....

Researchers at three universities have accused Apple of taking an ‘immense risk’ with the security of user data thanks to what they say is a poor implementation of differential privacy. Differential privacy is a method of allowing Apple and other companies to analyse user data in a way intended to be completely anonymous. Enough noise is injected into the data that it is supposed to be impossible to match any of that data to a specific individual....

We have kept you updated on Apple’s warranty situation in Italy with the company forced to pay a $1.2 million fine imposed by Italian antitrust authorities after losing an appeal to the fine in March. Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato claimed Apple mislead consumers by selling its one-year AppleCare warranties without properly informing its customers of a two-year warranty mandatory by European Union law. Today, Reuters reported Apple is facing further fines and “temporary closure of its operations in Italy” if it doe not make changes to its warranty policies:...

Apple announced some major changes coming to iPadOS 16, with a particular emphasis on multitasking upgrades powered by the new Stage Manager feature. To the dismay of some iPad users, however, these new multitasking tasking features are exclusive to the newest M1 iPad Pro and iPad Air. Why is that the case? Apple has attempted to give us an explanation of sorts… The two major upgrades to multitasking with iPadOS 16 are Stage Manager and better support for external displays....