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Here’s why Apple spent $1-billion on Chinese cab service Didi

Apple has made headlines this morning after it announced a US$1-billion investment in smart cab service Didi. The investment thus pits Apple directly against current cab…

Apple loses exclusive rights to ‘iPhone’ name in China

This has to be one of the strangest legal battles of the year, but Apple has now lost a case against a company in…

Special Podcast #19: Analysis of everything Apple launched on 21 March 2016

In our latest Special Podcast, Senior Reporter Stuart Thomas talks to Gearburn Editor Andy Walker and Reporter Graham van der Made about the latest…

Sacha Baron Cohen previews new movie, Apple product launch style

Sacha Baron Cohen knows how to troll. Even his movies can be viewed as one long troll. At the Oscars, for example, he was…

Tim Cook takes the worst photo with an iPhone, faces Twitter ridicule

Apple has long promoted the iPhone camera capabilities, in fact it is one of the selling features of the iPhone. The company has a…

Weekly Round Up #50: Alphabet beats Apple, Travelstart’s $40m, Uber’s new logo, smartphone rumours

Welcome to Weekly Roundup, our podcast discussing the latest tech trends, innovation and news from the last few days. This week on BurnCast, Senior…

IDC: people are still buying smartphones in their billions

The rate at which smartphones ship is incredible. And with more and more people joining the list of smartphone owners, the shipment of phones…

Um, what now? Apple buys Twitter analytics service Topsy for $200m

Headlines beginning with the words “Apple acquires” are nothing new in the tech space — after all, the tech giant bought 15 smaller companies…

Amazon pokes fun at Apple, Jony Ive in its new Kindle Fire HDX ad

Used to a nice soothing voice with a British accent telling you why the latest iDevice is oh so ‘magical’? You’ve probably been watching…

Want to play with a bit of geek history? Apple II OS now open to public

Retro tech lovers, you have our full permission to geek out after reading this: the operating system that ran the iconic Apple II is…

4 major components to finding success in a digital world: mobile [part one]

It’s a fair statement to make that we are not living in the digital revolution. We are living and breathing the history that many…

5 amazing examples of iPhoneography

If you’ve been anywhere near Instagram, you’ve probably seen the hashtag. Android may be dominating the smartphone market, but when it comes to mobile…

Samsung grabs top spot in Chinese mobile race, beating out local players

Those tireless number crunchers at Canalys have come out with a new report on the global smartphone market in August to September (Q3) this…

Apple iPad Air vs. Microsoft Surface 2: battle of the bulge

Apple and Microsoft are renowned for being rivals in the personal computer realm and as both companies introduce new products to the market, the…

With 5 billion from China, Apple’s slump is over (but it wants ‘to do better’)

Yesterday, while Asia was asleep, Tim Cook announced Apple’s earnings for the fourth quarter 2013 and revealed that sales in China had bounced back…

Less tech, more Louis Vuitton: welcome to the new Apple Inc

The new Apple Inc. fully emerged at the October product announcement event, and a fascinating company it is too. Apple is looking more and…

Apple freebies, #Music killed and Capt America back: #StuffToKnow this week

So Apple is giving away its desktop operating system for free, but you’ll still have to fork out for a thinner, lighter iPad. The…

5 graphs that show exactly what Twitter thought of the iAnnouncement

In the run up to Apple’s latest iPad event, sentiment among the press seemed to be mixed. Some suggested that Apple had clearly lost…

Forget the fashion: Apple hiring Burberry’s Angela Ahrendts has nothing to do with wearables

Finally the curious Burberry fashion show shot entirely on the iPhone 5s four days before the phone was actually available makes sense. The original…

Apple’s gold iPhone TV spot feels more meh than goldelicious

What do you get when you melt some gold and make it dance around a screen to pun-filled music? An iPhone commercial of course….

Obama won, Wolverine fired, Google Watch coming: #StuffToKnow this week

Well, the US government shut down (because of old men acting like children who didn’t get the toys they wanted), and after 16 day…

BlackBerry, HTC squeezed tightest in consolidating mobile market

Announcements by BlackBerry and HTC show the two companies are feeling the pressure and are likely to be increasingly marginalised into the future as…

Ireland re-examines its status as tech tax haven

Over the past few years Ireland’s managed to attract serious investment from international companies, especially in the tech sector, thanks to its relaxed tax…

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