{"id":290170,"date":"2017-02-01T04:58:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T04:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=290170"},"modified":"2017-02-01T04:58:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T04:58:30","slug":"apple-iphone-7-helps-us-giant-return-to-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=290170","title":{"rendered":"Apple: iPhone 7 helps US giant return to growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Apple reported its highest ever quarterly revenue, as the iPhone 7 helped it return to a growth in sales in the final three months of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>In its first full quarter since the iPhone 7&#8217;s release, Apple reported net sales of $78.4bn (\u00a362.3bn), up 3% on the same period a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Chief executive Tim Cook said Apple had sold &#8220;more iPhones than ever before&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It had also set new records for revenues from its Mac, Apple Watch and services divisions, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Apple shares rose 3% in after-hours trading following the results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__crosshead\"><strong>iPhone recovery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re thrilled to report that our holiday quarter results generated Apple&#8217;s highest quarterly revenue ever, and broke multiple records along the way,&#8221; Mr Cook said.<\/p>\n<p>Apple had suffered three quarters in a row of falling revenue as mounting competition, particularly from Chinese rivals, hit sales of its flagship iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>In April, the firm reported its first fall in quarterly revenue since 2003, hurt by slowing business in China.<\/p>\n<p>A continued slowdown in iPhone sales &#8211; which account for two thirds of income &#8211; led to Apple reporting a drop in annual revenue in October, the first such fall in 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple reported its highest ever quarterly revenue, as the iPhone 7 helped it return to a growth in sales in the final three months of 2016. In its first full quarter since the iPhone 7&#8217;s release, Apple reported net sales of $78.4bn (\u00a362.3bn), up 3% on the same period a year ago. Chief executive Tim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}