Month: October 2014

  • Nike CEO Hints at Continued Partnership With Apple to Develop Stylish Fitness Wearables

    Nike CEO Hints at Continued Partnership With Apple to Develop Stylish Fitness Wearables

    Nike CEO Mark Parker sat down with Bloomberg’s Stephanie Ruhle to discuss the company’s brand and product strategy (via The Guardian). During the 13-minute-long “Market Makers” segment, Parker confirmed that he is bullish on Apple and the wearables market, hinting at a continued partnership between the two companies at the 9:45 mark. Though Nike recently…

  • Microsoft sold a record 9.3 million Lumia smartphones last quarter

    Microsoft sold a record 9.3 million Lumia smartphones last quarter

    Microsoft released its earnings report for the first quarter of the fiscal 2015. The Redmond-based tech giant took home net income $4.5 billion from $23.2 billion of revenue.

  • Apple may pay Foxconn more for each iPhone 6 Plus

    Apple may pay Foxconn more for each iPhone 6 Plus

    A media report from Taiwan claims Apple could be ready to pay more to Foxconn for its manufacturing services for the iPhone 6 Plus. This would hopefully have the effect of encouraging the Taiwanese company to make more iPhone 6 Plus units. Those are needed because the market demand for Apple’s first phablet apparently exceeded…

  • GT Advanced and Apple terminate their partnership!

    GT Advanced and Apple terminate their partnership!

    GT Advanced Technologies, the company supplying Apple with sapphire for the Apple Watch, has announced the partnership between the two companies is over. Less than a year old, the deal drove GT Advanced to bankruptcy after the company didn’t stick to the agreed timelines for sapphire production and Apple had to abandon its plans for…

  • LG G3 should get Android 5.0 Lollipop update by the end of 2014

    LG G3 should get Android 5.0 Lollipop update by the end of 2014

    The LG G3 is going to sport Android 5.0 Lollipop by the end of the year, according to an LG representative for the Netherlands and Belgium cited by TechTastic. He didn’t give a more specific time frame, as we suspect the company is going to make an official announcement regarding its update plans.