Apple has signed a lease for a building in north San Jose, Calif. measuring 202,000 square feet, marking yet another expansion in that part of the city for reasons unknown, a local report said on Wednesday.

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The European Union has ruled that Fiat Chrysler and Starbucks must each pay up to 30 million euros, or about $34 million, in back taxes –?a decision that could foreshadow similar findings against Apple and Amazon.

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Yes, you can force close iOS apps by double pressing the home button and sliding the app window up, but you shouldn’t make a habit out of regularly doing it. Here’s why.

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Playing into social media trends, Apple on Wednesday updated its Siri voice assistant with a variety of responses to people wishing it “Happy Back to the Future Day.”

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Misfit on Tuesday introduced the Misfit Shine 2, the second generation of its flagship activity tracker, packing hardware upgrades, a vibration motor and more into a sleeker, more responsive design.

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Apple, one of the staunchest opponents of U.S. government efforts to conduct digital surveillance on its public, on Tuesday publicly denounced the efficacy of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, or CISA, just days before the bill goes up for vote in the Senate.

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As the result of an internal investigation, Apple Store employee in New York was arrested and charged with a number of crimes, including grand larceny, for purchasing $997,000 worth of gift cards using recoded credit and debit cards.

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Following the discovery — and subsequent fix — of yet another critical Adobe Flash vulnerability last week, Apple activated its Web plug-in blocking capability for OS X Safari to protect Mac users from what Adobe describes as “limited, targeted attacks.”

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Apple CDO Jony Ive recently sat down with Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour and Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Curator Andrew Bolton to discuss the interrelationships between fashion and modern technology, the focus of next year’s Apple-sponsored Met Gala.

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Swiss watch exports suffered their largest quarterly drop since 2009 during Q3, with “plummeting sales” in Hong Kong and China, as well as major declines Singapore, Taiwan, the Emirates and South Korea, all previously “robust Asian markets.”

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