Apple World Today

Apple comes in at 16th place on Fortune’s “Change the World” list, which highlights companies that leverage their businesses to drive profit and to create societal good.

If you don’t have a USB hub by now, you’re probably suffering from the inability to charge up more than one device at a time. That’s why we have this stealthy Nomad 3-port USB Hub on sale today for just $19.99 - we don’t like for our readers to suffer!

For the first time, Apple Korea revealed on Monday figures for its local employment in South Korea, reports The Korea Herald.

Hopefully, future Macs will add support for 802.11ad, also known as WiGig (although it will almost certainly come to the iPhone and iPad first) Its name makes it sound like the follow-up to 802.11ad, but that's not the case.

Impossible Foods has hired Ravi Thakkar, a former product manager at Apple, in the new position of vice president of Product Management.

Global sales of smart speakers continued to soar in the second quarter (Q2) of 2019, reaching 30.3 million units, nearly double the same period in 2018, according to the latest research from Strategy Analytics. 

From Aug.17-25, Apple is donating $10 to the National Park Foundation for every purchase made with Apple Pay at any Apple Store, on apple.com, or in the Apple Store app.

On a regular basis, Apple World Today posts a list of notable new apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be new, but they're popular and deserve mention. Here are this week’s picks.

Apple says upcoming changes to iOS will better protect the privacy of…

Another day, another lawsuit. As noted by AppleInsider, a lawsuit leveled by the non-practicing entity of Post Media alleges Apple Music infringes on four patents covering methods of broadcasting audio files over shared networks. 

Apple says the HomePod will launch in Japan and Taiwan on Friday, Aug. 23. Pre-orders are being taken.

In a note to clients — as noted by MacRumors, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says the Apple Watch Series 5 will launch this fall with OLED displays supplied by Japan Display.

In an article on its Newsroom web page, Apple says it open a collective $60 billion dollars with 9,000 American suppliers in 2018, supporting 450,000 jobs.

Apple has sued virtualization software company Corellium with a copyright infringement suit ripping into the developer's "illegal replication" of "everything" that makes up Apple's copyrighted operating system and applications, according to Law 360.

Love games? We have two critically-acclaimed Star Wars games on sale today. The Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic Bundle gives you two powerful games based on the Star Wars mythology for $4.99 - that’s 75% off the usual price.

I’m still dubious that we’ll ever see an Apple-branded car, but, if we do,…

Word sometimes gets around that I’m avid runner, softball/basketball…

Apple is looking around Manhattan for somewhere between 200,000 and 500,000 square feet for a new office, sources told The Real Deal. One source said the tech giant could take as much as 750,000 square feet.

Cloud storage is a great concept; you have a place away from your computer…

Apple has activated a "dormant software lock" on its latest iPhones to discourage battery replacements that aren't undertaken by Apple, according to a report last week by iFixit.