Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing is moving toward a 2018 initial public offering in the United States. Didi, valued at US$25 billion, would be the most high-profile Chinese listing in the US ...More
EJ Insight2016-05-17
There is a saying that a bad apple spoils the barrel. Now, what if there is only one good apple in a barrel of bad apples? Well, this is the dilemma being faced by Apple Inc. The US tech giant has se ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-28
Apple Inc. sold twice as many of its Apple Watches in the device's first year as iPhones in the smartphone's debut year. Yet the smartwatch is dogged by a perception of disappointment that seems prema ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-25
Andy Grove, one of the architects of Silicon Valley’s growth into the world’s center of technology creation, died on Monday. He was 79. “We are deeply saddened by the passing of former Intel chairman ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-22
Apple Inc. has launched its lowest-priced iPhone and slashed the price of its smart watch. The new four-inch iPhone SE will start at US$399, or US$50 less than the iPhone 5S where it is based on, but ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-22
Apple Inc. said it will contest a court order to help the FBI unlock an iPhone used by one of the shooters involved in a December terror attack in San Bernardino, California. In a statement Wednesday, ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-18
With the global smartphone market slowing, gadget makers such as Apple, Samsung and HTC are seeking the next growth engine for their businesses. Amid these efforts, consensus seems to be emerging that ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-09
Apple Inc.'s long winning streak appears to be coming to an end. The US technology giant forecast a decline in revenue for the current fiscal quarter, citing weak sales of its best-selling gadget iPho ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-08
There is no better place to gauge the prospects of iPhone, whose maker warned this week of the smartphone's first-ever sales decline, than in Sin Tat Plaza in Hong Kong's Mong Kok district. The buildi ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-28
Apple Inc. said revenue in the first three months of 2016 will be between US$50 billion and US$53 billion, the first time since 2003 that the company has forecast a sales decline. The technology giant ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-27
Apple Inc. chief executive Tim Cook says the notion that the tech giant is avoiding taxes is "political crap". "Apple pays every tax dollar we owe," Cook told 60 Minutes' Charlie Rose, Reuters reports ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-21
Apple Inc. defeated a US class-action lawsuit brought by its retail workers over bag search practices at the firm's California stores, Reuters reported. A US district court in San Francisco ruled Satu ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-09
Apple Pay, Apple Inc.’s mobile payment system, is set to land in Hong Kong next year, but executives at local banks don't expect it to have much of an impact, Apple Daily reported Thursday. When Apple ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-29
Apple Inc. posted a profit of US$11.1 billion for its fiscal fourth quarter, up 31 percent from a year ago, fueled by sales of the iPhone, The New York Times reported. Revenue was US$51.5 billion, up ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-28
President Xi Jinping landed in Seattle on Tuesday to start a week-long US visit, Reuters reported. He will meet US business leaders, be hosted by President Barack Obama at a state dinner at the White ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-23
China is in talks with the United States to reduce the scope of so-called negative lists of sectors closed to each other's investors. The two sides have exchanged revised offers regarding such restric ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-16
Apple Inc. unveiled on Wednesday a larger-screen iPad and a revamped TV set-top box along with upgraded versions of its smartphones, hoping to breathe new momentum into the company's sales ahead of th ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-10
Apple Inc. sent invitations to an event on Sept. 9 in San Francisco, where it’s expected to unveil the latest iPhone, a new Apple TV set-top box and other updated products, Bloomberg reported. The rel ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-28
Investors stung by a freefall in China's stock market sent US equities tumbling 4 percent on Monday in a rout that enmeshed major indices worldwide. The Dow Jones industrial average briefly slumped mo ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-25
Chinese media are once again feasting on smartphone maker Apple Inc., which has has come out squarely on top of a "list of shame" that details how some of the best-selling brands quietly steal data mi ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-07