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All three major US stock indexes were up in late-morning trading Friday despite long-dated Treasury

Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi and Tech Editor Dan Howley look back at Tim Cook’s tenure as Apple (AAPL) CEO, a period that saw the company generate roughly $32 million in growth per hour. They also look ahead to incoming CEO John Ternus and what it will take to keep Apple’s growth engine firing.

AAPL's 33.54X forward P/E tops its sector and peers, even as iPhone, Services and AI momentum support growth amid supply and currency headwinds.

Apple paid Ireland $17.1 billion in taxes last year, ‌representing around 40% of its worldwide ‌total, according to a company filing that detailed ​the iPhone maker's global tax liabilities country-by-country. Apple said the amount paid to Ireland was "significantly higher" than income taxes accrued as ‌it included €13 billion ($15.18 ⁠billion) in back taxes that it was ordered to pay ⁠Ireland by European Union's top court in 2024. Ireland fought the EU back-tax bill alongside ​Apple for ​eight years, ​seeking to defend its ‌position as the location of choice for U.S. multinationals in Europe - and the billions of euros in direct and indirect taxes they bring in each year.

Tim Cook has grown Apple's market capitalization by $32 million an hour, according to Bank of America analyst Wamsi Mohan.

Google may be turning Pixel into a much bigger hardware strategy

Suddenly the Nasdaq couldn’t hold onto early gains, and you can probably guess which stocks are to blame. The Nasdaq Composite was hovering around breakeven after a wave of selling hit chips and AI infrastructure stocks. The S&P 500 was still up 0.3%.

Wall Street just upgraded three of the biggest names in tech, but bullish consensus and the best investment are two very different things. One of these giants trades at a fraction of its peers' multiples while growing faster than either of them.

Fidelity's so-called high dividend ETF hides a portfolio that would surprise most income investors, and understanding who it actually benefits requires looking past the yield altogether.

Apple appears to be shifting more resources toward its mixed-reality glasses, which it reportedly plans to unveil next year, while scaling back its focus on the Vision Pro.

Foldable phones have flopped for years. Analysts bet Apple can finally break the spell.

Here is a way to collect an attractive income on DELL now, which you keep whatever the stock does, in exchange for agreeing to sell your shares if the stock climbs above a higher price.

On August 12, 2026, the Wall Street Journal reported that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is discussing new, multiyear deals with publishers to license their content for an AI-upgraded Siri expected to launch later this year. Why This Matters Siri has been criticized for years for lacking real utility. Apple’s fix depends partly on paying outside publishers […]

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is the world’s largest chipmaker. Here’s how it grew into the semiconductor behemoth it is today.

John Ternus will take over as CEO from Tim Cook on Sept. 1. The age of AI could trigger some changes to how the iPhone maker invests in its future.

OpenAI rolled out support on Thursday for controlling Apple Inc.’s iMessage service via ChatGPT, a move with the potential to raise privacy concerns for the iPhone maker.

Warren Buffett may have stepped down as Berkshire Hathaway’s CEO, but he says the Alphabet investment was his idea. That bet has now become quite enormous. Berkshire Hathaway disclosed on August 14 that it increased its stake in Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) by 83% during the second quarter to nearly 106 million shares worth about $37.8 […]

Broadcom Inc. is in talks with a group of lenders to raise more than $60 billion in debt for an AI chip financing deal that will benefit Anthropic PBC and other companies, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Kelly Apple will lead Kestra’s wealth division as it looks to bolster the services it offers to financial advisors.

Autonomous rideshare operator — which is owned by Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) — has begun building its own AI chips to better optimize sensor data, according to Bloomberg. Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley examines Waymo's move to bring more of its technology in-house.

Despite the conservative push to end diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in corporate America, new research shows that companies that did not heed the “go woke, go broke” warning...

Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL, XETRA:APC)'s real test under incoming CEO John Ternus will be restoring a sense of technological surprise to a company too large for incremental excellence alone to redefine it, according to analysts at Bank of America. The bank made the observation in a research note...

We were wrong about SCHD, and the margin of error is impossible to ignore. Here is what actually flipped the script and what it means for every portfolio that followed our advice.

The camera-equipped earbuds could bring Visual Intelligence to AirPods.

The evidence that search advertising was getting more valuable, not less, sat in Alphabet's own numbers weeks before the price started to move.

John Ternus will take over as CEO from Tim Cook on Sept. 1. The age of AI could trigger some changes to how the iPhone maker invests in its future.

Apple's lower dependence on AI infrastructure spending helped it resist Thursday's bond-yield pressure.

Micron unveils Micron Research Labs, a new research institution. Its stock has soared more than 700% over the last year, and was up again Thursday.

BRK.B boosts Alphabet, Delta and Lennar stakes while trimming several holdings as it reshapes its equity portfolio.

Early in its life as a publicly traded company, SpaceX stock has shown little correlation with other large tech stocks.