Apple News users reach 100 million, App Store sales rise

Apple Inc’s news service has reached 100 million monthly active users and customers spent more than USD1.4 billion in the App Store between Christmas and New Year, the latest signs of growing revenue from the iPhone maker’s services business.

With demand for smart phones and other hardware peaking, Apple has been striving to boost sales from purchases of apps and subscription services like its newly launched Apple TV+ streaming service or Apple Care maintenance packages.