Apr. 1—In the spring of 1977, Pete Carey walked into Apple's new office expecting to see the future. Instead, he saw filing cabinets. "There were filing cabinets everywhere," recalled Carey, a ...

The maker of the iPhone, iPad and other popular consumer gadgets hits a milestone this week, reaching its 50th anniversary.

Stepping into the padded vault felt like entering some kind of portal. The sterile white room was lined with jagged, pyramid-shaped foam spires; a cross between a recording studio and some kind of ...

A hippie and a nerd who became prank-playing friends vowed to change the world when they founded a Silicon Valley startup on ...