TBWAMedia Arts Lab creative director Arnau Bosch Verg?s, who worked on Apple’s award-winning “Welcome Home” commercial for HomePod, is leaving the ad agency to start a social media platform catering to musicians.

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Apple is once again facing down a patent lawsuit over integral iPhone technology, as low power GPS specialist Location Based Technologies on Monday leveled claims that the tech giant infringes on a clutch of inventions used by the relatively popular PocketFinder series of products.

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Apple will announce quarterly earnings for its third fiscal quarter of 2019 on July 30, with company CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri expected to share details regarding specific segment performance in an investor conference call.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook on Monday flatly refuted the a recent Wall Street Journal report detailing CDO Jony Ive’s departure from the company, with the chief executive saying allegations, including claims that he is disinterested in design, are “absurd.”

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Hoping to sell people on the Apple Watch’s fitness uses, Apple on Monday highlighted the Australian Women’s Cricket Team, which is using the wearable to its players.

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The updated 2019 Mac Pro brings back Apple’s Expansion Slot Utility app to customize PCIe bandwidth between the eight available PCI-express slots on the professional machine.

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Apple on Monday unloaded a burst of short “message” ads on YouTube, continuing its ongoing focus on user privacy and security.

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Apple’s Project Catalyst will help developers create software for macOS Catalina by migrating iOS apps, and in a discussion one month after its unveiling and initial availability post-WWDC, developers seem to find the experience to be positive though with some challenges, while Apple suggests developers will be driven by public opinion to refine their macOS app variants, in a similar way to the iOS App Store’s reviews.

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CapMetro — the public transit system for Austin, Texas — is reportedly adding Apple Pay and Google Pay to its mobile apps later in July.

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Samsung Electronics’ CEO, D.J. Koh, has claimed responsibility for the premature launch of the Galaxy Fold, which is still awaiting a new release date.

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