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Apple today emailed several Brazilian outlets to confirm the news that it would open an Apple retail store in the city. Translated: The news comes after it was recently discovered that Apple was hiring retail employees for both Rio and Istanbul, Turkey. . Per Apple’s financials, the company plans to open 30 to 35 new stores in the coming year with 75 percent of those being outside of the United States....

Apple is continuing to expand its testing of autonomous vehicles. According to new details from macReports, the company now has upwards of 65 autonomous vehicles on the road in California, continuing the gradual increase that has been taking place over recent months… This information comes from records filed with the California Department of Motor Vehicles. Apple is still not the most prolific tester of autonomous vehicles in the state, with GM Cruise leading the way at 117 cars with 333 drivers....

The iPhone 4 officially landed in the 1.2 billion people market of India on May 27, beginning at 34,500 Indian rupees (about $760) for the 16GB version after a two-year service agreement. But pricing the phone at $760 (which also raised red flags with the government) meant putting the iconic product out of reach for the 41.6 percent of the total population that lives below the international poverty line of $1....

Apple has announced a new $50 million “Supplier Employee Development Fund,” which it says will help “support expanded initiatives for people across its supply chain. As part of this announcement, Apple says it is teaming up with the International Labor Organization, the International Organization for Migration, and education experts. Apple made the announcement in a press release on Wednesday morning. The company explains that the $50 million fund will “expand access to learning opportunities and skills development” for members of its supply chain....

Apple Card will start to change by 2027. Mastercard announced it’s “swiping left” on magnetic stripes after decades of supporting this technology. “The shift away from the magnetic stripe points to both consumers changing habits for payments and the development of newer technologies,” says the company in a blog post. According to Mastercard, newly issued credit and debit cards will not be required to have a stripe starting in 2024 in Europe, 2027 in the US, and by 2033, no Mastercard cards will have magnetic stripes....

Apple CEO Tim Cook is speaking live at the Goldman Sachs Technology conference, where he just called Greenlight Capital’s suit a “silly sideshow.” Cook started his comments by announcing Apple looked last year at things it could do to improve governance, and, in the review, thought it should eliminate a blank check from the charter. “So, it doesn’t mean Apple won’t release preferred share. It means we need to go to common shareholders to get their approval,” he explained....

Update: Apple crosses $700B market cap… Apple’s stock today closed at a record high of $118.62 per share (post 7-1 split) with a market cap of nearly $700 billion at $695.7 billion. Earlier this month, Apple reached its highest market capitalization in history reaching two-thirds of $1 trillion; the company’s stock has continued to climb as it prepares to debut the Apple Watch next spring and enters the holiday quarter....

As was the case with the iPhone 12 last year, Apple is selling the iPhone 13 with EarPods in France. While Apple stopped including EarPods with the iPhone starting with the iPhone 12, a legal requirement related to radio-frequency energy requires headphones to be included in the box with smartphones. This situation centers around potential harm caused to the brain when absorbing radio-frequency energy. You can debate the legitimacy or impact of this, but many countries have set a legal limit on the radio-frequency power output....

Apple and government officials have been publicly sparring over how to handle privacy and encryption for months, and new rules expected to be proposed in the UK on Wednesday might make Apple’s position much harder to maintain. The issue boils down to Apple allowing iPhone users to encrypt data behind a password — encryption that Apple can’t break through — and government officials wanting access in instances where de-encrypting smartphones could help law enforcement and security efforts....

During its Spring Forward event in San Francisco today, Apple officially took the wraps off the ultra-thin 12″ MacBook we exclusively profiled in January. With an all-new 2304×1440 resolution 12″ screen, and reengineered keyboard that runs nearly the entire width of the machine, the new MacBook has a tiny footprint, yet the thinnest screen housing ever on a Mac. A 1.1GHz version with 256GB will sell for $1,299 starting on April 10, with a $1,599 model bumping the processor to 1....

Apple today has debuted two new TV ads for the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. These ads come just a week after the company unveiled its new holiday ad featuring Stevie Wonder and Andra Day. The two new iPhone ads are entitled “Hey Siri” and “Ridiculously Powerful,” and focus on exactly what you would expect them to. “Hey Siri” centers around the iPhone’s support for always-listening support for Siri. The ad shows a variety of different use cases for the feature, including asking Siri for restaurant recommendations, trivia questions, to play a song, and much more....

Apple has announced today that it is teaming up with (RED) to donate to the Global Fund to help fight AIDS. For select Apple Pay purchases made over the next week, Apple will donate $1 to the fund. Apple says that from November 25 through December 2, it will make that $1 donation for every purchase made with Apple Pay by customers at Apple Stores, on Apple․com, and in the Apple Store application on iOS....

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Following Apple’s win of an injunction on Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1, the court has granted Apple with a preliminary injunction on Google and Samsung’s high-profile Galaxy Nexus smartphone. This is according to a tweet from inside the courtroom by Reuters reporter Dan Levine. Additionally, the court says that Apple must pay a $96 million bond to secure this preliminary injunction. As Google and Samsung’s flagship smartphone, expect this injunction to be fought heavily....

Apple’s 12th September mega event happened last week. We saw iPhone XS, XS Max and XR unveil in their full avatar. However, it was later revealed that the ‘budget’ device iPhone XR has not received FCC approval. Now more than after a week of its release, iPhone XR Gets FCC Certification. Below you can see the approval document. iPhone XR goes by the id E3220A. An FCC ID is the unique product ID FCC assigns to identify the wireless products in the market....

For the fourth year in a row, Apple is Fortune’s “Most-Admired” company. “The company’s blistering pace of new product releases,” writes Shelley DuBois, “has continued to set the bar high for tech companies across the board.” This follows winning the past three years: Apple is Fortune’s ‘most admired’ – for the third year in a row Apple tops Fortune’s ‘most admired’ list – again Apple tops Fortunes Most Admired Companies Fun Fact: I also have an interesting book review in the upcoming issue:...

Coherent Navigation brings High Integrity GPS system to the table, something which as the company describes, is accurate within a few centimeters — compared to three to five meters in a vast majority of consumer-grade global positioning systems. Apple could tap on Coherent’s technologies and expertise to improve its mapping product though as you would imagine, Apple isn’t telling exactly what it plans to do with its new acquisition. Interestingly enough, Paul Lego, former Coherent CEO had joined Apple Maps team earlier this year....

If you ordered new AirPods on the same day they were announced, then it looks like Apple Store has just started shipping the orders with delivery from Tuesday 26th March, the day after Apple’s special event. I ordered my AirPods in the same minute as them going on sale and just received my shipment notification from the Apple Store that my items have now dispatched (the UK-localized term for ‘shipped’ status)....

Apple-owned music recognition service Shazam today announced that users have recognized more than 1 billion songs using the Music Recognition feature from Control Center in iOS. 1 billion uses for something that was only introduced with iOS 14.2 last fall is an impressive figure. Apple said the most Shazamed track was “Talking to the Moon” by Bruno Mars, followed by “Astronaut in the Ocean” by Masked Wolf. Music Recognition allows users to easily Shazam music they are listening to on their iPhone, listening to audio from any app....

CEOs and political leaders in Davos are talking a lot about companies focusing on more than just profits by being responsible for their employees, their suppliers, and their communities. One company that has come under some particularly harsh criticism for failing to live up to this ideal is Apple. Famed US economist Joseph Stiglitz said Apple has failed to do the most basic job of a responsible company, which is to pay its fair share in tax by leaving much of its profits in Ireland....