In today’s Bulldog wrapup of technology and life science news:

  • Apple snaps out of iPhone slump
  • Bezos, Microsoft, Expedia vs. Trump order
  • Pfizer swings to 4Q profit after rough year, hikes 2017 view
  • Nintendo promises more smartphone games at 2 to 3 a year

The details:

  • Apple snaps out of iPhone slump

Apple has snapped out of the first sales slump in the iPhone’s decade-long history, but the upturn doesn’t mean that the pioneering company has broken out of its innovation funk. If anything, the numbers released Tuesday in Apple’s fiscal first-quarter report served as the latest reminder of the company’s growing dependence on the iPhone while fruitlessly trying to come up with another breakthrough product since its chief visionary, Steve Jobs, died in 2011.

  • CEO Jeff Bezos says Amazon backs suit opposing Trump order

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos says the Seattle-based company supports a lawsuit filed by Washington state’s attorney general against President Donald Trump and the administration over Trump’s executive order on immigration and refugees. Fellow Washington state-based companies Microsoft and Expedia are also supporting the suit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle on Monday.

  • Pfizer swings to 4Q profit after rough year, hikes 2017 view

Drugmaker Pfizer Inc. is forecasting slightly higher sales and profit this year after a difficult 2016, though reduced spending on overhead and lawsuits helped it swing to a fourth-quarter profit, following a loss a year earlier. The biggest U.S. drugmaker still missed analysts’ profit expectations, but it edged past revenue expectations.

  • Nintendo promises more smartphone games at 2 to 3 a year

Nintendo Co. President Tatsumi Kimishima told reporters Wednesday the company is committed to delivering more content for smartphones, noting that the success of “Pokemon Go,” a smartphone augmented-reality game, boosted sales of other Pokemon games and of 3DS machines.

That helped Kyoto-based Nintendo, which creates Super Mario games, report a better-than-expected October-December profit of 64.7 billion yen ($569 million), more than twice its same-period profit in the previous year.

Investors were unimpressed, sending Nintendo stock sinking 2 percent in Tokyo trading. The stock had already slipped when the price for the Switch was announced earlier this month.

The Japanese video game maker also kept unchanged its original target of selling 2 million Switch consoles in the first month after its launch, despite speculation it might aim higher because of brisk pre-orders.