{"id":26722,"date":"2015-04-28T03:03:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T01:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=26722"},"modified":"2015-04-28T17:29:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T15:29:45","slug":"26722","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/26722\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple once again beat Wall Street\u2019s forecasts for revenues, earnings and iPhone sales with its results for the second quarter, as it said it would return another $70 billion to shareholders.\u00a0 The world\u2019s most valuable company by market capitalisation posted revenue growth of 27% to $58 billion, ahead of analysts\u2019 expectations of around $56 billion, thanks to stronger-than-anticipated iPhone sales, up 40% to 61.2 million units. Apple said that it would expand its dividends and buyback scheme to return a total of $200 billion to shareholders by the end of March 2017, up from the $130 billionn programme of a year ago. That includes a 11% dividend increase and a further $50 billion in share repurchases.\u00a0 <a id=\"KonaLink0\" class=\"kLink\" href=\"http:\/\/econintersect.com\/wall\/wall.php?post=2015\/10000530&amp;title=What_We_Read_Today_27_April_2015&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daily+Global+Economic+Intersection+Newsletter+Feed&amp;utm_content=Daily+Global+Economic+Intersection+Newsletter+Feed+CID_d26f64f70e3c6137a450830b5ead1cb5&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_term=What_We_Read_Today_27_April_2015#\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple is an interesting lesson for entrepreneurs.\u00a0 Give the market what they don&#8217;t know they want but discover that they do.\u00a0 Is the watch going to work?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/26722\/apple-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26730\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26730\" src=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Apple-Watch.jpg\" alt=\"Apple Watch\" width=\"478\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Apple-Watch.jpg 478w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Apple-Watch-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Apple-Watch-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Apple-Watch-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple once again beat Wall Street\u2019s forecasts for revenues, earnings and iPhone sales with its results for the second quarter, as it said it would return another $70 billion to shareholders.\u00a0 The world\u2019s most valuable company by market capitalisation posted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/26722\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurs","category-finance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - 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