
The affected phones were mostly sold in a 4-month period between September 2014 and January 2015, Apple said on its website.

The forecast overshadowed Apple's strong sales in China, which more than doubled to $13.23 billion from a year earlier.

Checks by Reuters on several Apple sites in Asia, Europe and North and South America all showed issues with the services.

IBM is deep in transition, and has been selling businesses such as low-end servers, cash registers, and semiconductors to focus on high-growth areas like security software, cloud services and data...

Maps.yahoo.com will shut down by the end of this month, Amotz Maimon, Yahoo's chief architect, said in a blog post, as the service faces intense competition from Google Inc's Maps service.

Users can tap or click a dollar icon in a new chat window to send money to their friends, after they link a Visa or MasterCard debit card issued by a US bank to their accounts.

Apple sold 74,832 smartphones to end users worldwide, ahead of the 73,032 phones sold by Samsung, according to Gartner's report.

Taiwan-based Quanta Computer is the main assembler of the Apple Watch, which is expected to be launched in April 2015.

Tweets will be visible in Google search results as soon as they are posted, starting during the first half of the year.

It is expected to create 600 engineering and construction jobs at the data center, Apple said, adding that the plant would be powered mostly by solar energy.





