French producer Charles Gillibert, right, and French-Turkish director Deniz Gamze Erguven celebrate on stage with their trophy after they won the Best First Feature Film award for "Mustang" Friday, Feb. 26, 2016 at the ceremony of the 41th Cesar Film Awards at Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
PARIS (AP) --
France's Culture minister has wished success in Hollywood's Academy Awards to "Mustang," a French-produced Turkish drama that took four awards at a ceremony in Paris.
Audrey Azoulay said Saturday the 41st annual Cesar awards -the country's equivalent of the Oscars'- has honored "the French cinema in all its diversity."
"Mustang," whose director Deniz Gamze Erguven was born in Turkey and raised mainly in France, won four prizes including best first film at the Cesar ceremony Friday night.
The Turkish-language film is competing in Hollywood Sunday amid controversy caused by the lack of diversity in the Oscar nominations.
The French film industry has also honored "Fatima," the story of an Algerian immigrant woman struggling to raise her two daughters in France, with three awards including "best film."
This is a display of iPhone 16s in an Apple Store in Pittsburgh on Jan. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
Apple on Thursday disclosed its iPhone sales dipped slightly during the holiday-season quarter, signaling a sluggish start to the trendsetting company's effort to catch up to the rest of Big Tech in the race to bring artificial intelligence to the masses.
The iPhone's roughly 1% drop in revenue from the previous year's October-December period wasn't entirely unexpected, given the first software update enabling the device's AI features didn't arrive until just before Halloween, and the technology still isn't available in many markets outside the U.S.
The countries still awaiting Apple's AI suite include China, a key market where the company continued to lose ground. Although he didn't mention China, Apple CEO Tim Cook told investors on a conference call that a software upgrade enabling the AI features in more European markets, as well as Japan and Korea will be rolling out in April.
But in the past quarter Apple also was only able to eke out a modest revenue gain across its entire business, although the results came in ahead of the analyst projections that guide investors. The Cupertino, California, company earned $36.3 billion, or $2.40 per share, a 7% increase from the previous year. Revenue edged up from the previous year by 4% to $124.3 billion.
Those numbers included iPhone revenue of $69.1 billion. In China, Apple's total revenue registered $18.5 billion, an 11% decrease from the previous year.
Part of that erosion in China reflected the iPhone's shrinking market share in that country, where homegrown companies have been making more headway. Apple's iPhone year-over-year shipments in China declined nearly 10% in the most recent quarter, while native companies Huawei and Xiaomi posted year-over-year increases of more than... Read More
