If you’re like me, you aspired to leap into January bright-eyed and ready to break all sorts of personal productivity records. But instead, here we are, scrambling as usual and digging through backlogs of emails that have sat unchecked since the Friday before Christmas. Here’s a quick, painless briefing of the top stories in business and tech, plus what to look for in the week ahead. The company attributed its $5 billion shortfall to the sharp decline in iPhone sales in China. That spurred larger fears about the lagging Chinese economy — and whether it’s pulling American companies down with it.

Source: New York Times January 06, 2019 12:00 UTC