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Apple and developers to raise money for Global Fund to Fight AIDS

People who open up their iOS devices this week may be seeing red, and for good reason: Apple and developers… Read More

Microsoft racks up 1.7M views for new Lumia ad that deems Apple’s Siri overweight, incompetent

Apparently, Siri can’t hold a conversation and has gained a bit of weight. That’s according to Microsoft’s new video advertisement… Read More

Microsoft, Apple and other tech titans get top marks in survey of LGBT inclusion policies

Major players in the tech industry earned top marks from the Human Rights Campaign for workplace policies relating to lesbian,… Read More

Apple launches iOS 8.1.1 to improve performance on older devices

Owners of the iPhone 4S, iPad 2 and 5th generation iPod Touch have good news coming their way, thanks to… Read More

Microsoft, Apple and 7 other tech giants call for NSA reform before year’s end

The year may be winding to a close, but a coalition of 9 tech companies want lawmakers in Washington, D.C.… Read More

Freaked out about the new iPhone vulnerability? Don’t worry, but be cautious

There’s a lot of discussion happening right now about a newly-disclosed iOS vulnerability called Masque Attack, and everyone seems to… Read More

Microsoft reclaims position as world’s second-most valuable company

Apple and Microsoft are again the world’s most valuable companies. Microsoft saw its market value increase to around $410 billion today,… Read More

Home Depot turns to Macs after hackers exploit Windows flaw in credit-card breach

Home Depot’s massive credit card breach is a huge problem for consumers, since criminals were able to steal 56 million… Read More

Office apps hit top 10 on iOS App Store after Microsoft allows free editing

There’s nothing quite like free as motivation. That’s one clear message after Microsoft began allowing users of its Office suite on… Read More

New stats: iPhone 6 launch gives boost to iOS in enterprise

By all accounts, Apple’s launch of its new smartphones has been a blockbuster. CEO Tim Cook says the company is… Read More

Apple finally offers iPhone users an escape from iMessage

Apple has begun offering ex-iPhone owners a way to escape its iMessage service, thanks to a new support page the… Read More

‘AppleCare for Enterprise’: Apple launches new business tech support program with IBM’s help

Apple is making a new move into the enterprise with the unveiling of AppleCare for Enterprise, a new service plan that’s designed… Read More

Discovered: Here’s where Apple’s temporary Seattle office is located

Apple is hiring engineers in Seattle, but it doesn’t have a permanent office quite yet. Instead, the company’s Seattle cohort… Read More

New scorecard knocks Skype and other messaging services for lacking security features

Looking for a secure messaging tool? The Electronic Frontier Foundation just released a new scorecard comparing a wide variety of… Read More

Apple’s arrival cements Seattle’s status as ‘cloud capital of the world’

This probably shouldn’t come as a surprise, but Apple is being extremely secretive about its new Seattle engineering center. The company… Read More

Tim Cook

Apple hiring for mysterious new engineering office in Seattle

Over the past few years, Silicon Valley-based companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Salesforce, Oracle, HP, eBay, and others have opened… Read More

Tunes in the sky: Apple teams with Southwest to offer free Beats Music streaming in flight

Southwest Airlines passengers on the lookout for fresh tunes will have a new option on the company’s wi-fi enabled flights.… Read More

Apple CEO Tim Cook: ‘I’m proud to be gay’

“So let me be clear: I’m proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has… Read More

Apple Pay rival led by Walmart has already been hacked

CurrentC, the mobile payment system being developed by a group of retailers — and a competitor to Apple Pay — has already… Read More

Microsoft adds new features to OneNote for Mac, iOS

Microsoft has updated its versions of OneNote on Apple’s mobile and desktop platforms today with a few new features designed… Read More

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Watch out Amazon: Apple may team up with Alibaba

Watch out, Amazon: Apple and Alibaba may be teaming up. Both Apple CEO Tim Cook and Alibaba CEO Jack Ma… Read More

Apple Pay saw 1M credit card activations in just 3 days

Apple Pay seems to be catching on — at least with consumers. Speaking at the WSJ.D conference on Monday, Apple CEO… Read More

Rite Aid and CVS spite their customers by blocking Apple Pay

In a move that’s tailor-made to spite consumers who want to give them money, Rite Aid and CVS have switched… Read More

Testing Apple Pay: Our quest to buy beer, gas, burgers and more with a smartphone

Apple CEO Tim Cook wants to replace our wallets, and on a rainy afternoon in Seattle, we found out why. Team GeekWire spent time on… Read More

Amazon’s Visa card will work with Apple Pay, just not right away

Amazon has confirmed it will support Apple Pay, putting to rest rumors it was rebuffing Apple’s entrance into the mobile payments… Read More

Apple is making iPhones as fast as it can, and it’s still not fast enough

If you’re having trouble finding an iPhone 6 to buy, you’re not alone – the demand for the new phones still… Read More

Apple revenue tops $42 billion thanks to strong iPhone 6 sales

Apple posted $42.1 billion in revenue for the September quarter this afternoon, up 12 percent from the year before, beating Wall… Read More

Why Apple fans will be lining up for lunch at McDonald’s today

If you see a line of people outside McDonald’s today, here’s why: Apple is launching iOS 8.1 today, an update… Read More

Microsoft smartwatch could beat Apple Watch to market

Microsoft plans to announce and release its own health-tracking smartwatch “within the next few weeks,” according to a Forbes report… Read More

Apple’s new iPads are here, but one of them is not a good buy

There were a number of great upgrades launched at Apple’s event yesterday – Apple Pay comes on Monday, OS X Yosemite… Read More

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