Steve's back from vacation, so we start off the year with news on an Apple acquisition, conflicting Wall Street forecasts for Apple, a long-awaited iPhone X app update, and Google's most popular searches for last year:

• Apple purchases Buddybuild, which makes continuous integration and debugging tools that will be built into Xcode
• One pair of Wall Street analysts is forecasting low production and sales of iPhone X for the first fiscal quarter of 2018, others think the company is on its way to a $200 share price
• DJI updates its drone app for the iPhone X
• Slime, unicorns, memes and acronyms that defined 2017, as brought to you by Google