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May 28, 2012 Posted By:
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By sleight of hand, Simon Pierro pours beer from an 10-inch tablet
FORTUNE -- The 2002 Magician of the Year has rebooted his career entertaining crowds with a tricked-up Apple (AAPL) iPad. For more of Simon Pierro's performance art, see here.
Thanks to The Loop's Jim Dalrymple for the tip.
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May 26, 2012 Posted By:
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The Justice Department may regret trying to make its e-book antitrust suit stick to Apple
FORTUNE -- I haven't had so much fun reading legal documents since the Watergate trials.
I loved U.S. v. Apple et al. for the juicy details: the 56 phone calls, the clandestine meetings in swank Manhattan eateries, the secret e-mails "double erased" to ensure...
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May 26, 2012 Posted By:
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The auction house Sotheby’s is selling an official memo from Steve Jobs to Atari about improving the World Cup Football game. The pages – stamped and signed by Jobs himself – describe circuit diagrams and paddle layouts. Delightfully, the stamp says “All-One Farm Design” and features a Buddhist mantra, “gate gate paragate parasangate bodhi svahdl.” As you do.
If you’re...
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May 25, 2012 Posted By:
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Asks the board not to issue dividends on his 1.125 million restricted stock units
FORTUNE -- It's not everybody who can afford to turn down $75 million. But given the way he's been treated in the press lately, it may be that Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook couldn't afford not to.
In an amendment filed with the SEC Friday, the company's...
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May 25, 2012 Posted By:
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Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice accused Apple and a number of other large U.S. publishers of conspiring to fix eBook prices and filed an antitrust lawsuit. While most of the publishers quickly settled the lawsuit, Apple decided to fight. Earlier this week, as Ars Technica reports today, Apple responded (PDF) to the government’s accusations. Apple...
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May 25, 2012 Posted By:
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One of the company's biggest boosters on Wall Street hasn't lost the faith
Munster, posing for a Bloomberg Businessweek profile
FORTUNE -- Borrowing one of the oldest devices in print and online journalism, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster has boiled his thoughts about Apple (AAPL) into something like a top 10 list.
Munster is on record predicting that the company's share...
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May 25, 2012 Posted By:
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In an apparent effort to help its users find more interesting apps in its cavernous digital stores, Apple today made an interesting tweak to its iOS and Mac app stores. Both now feature a “free app of the week” and an “editor’s choice” section. As Apple’s official App Store Twitter account announced yesterday, Cut the Rope: Experiments is...
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May 25, 2012 Posted By:
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The company managed, however, to stay off Goldman's list of the funds' favorite shorts
FORTUNE -- Goldman Sachs (GS) on Thursday issued its Q1 2012 Hedge Fund Trend Monitor report, which lists both the 50 stocks most important to hedge funds as well the 50 "Very Important Short Positions For Hedge Funds."
Apple (AAPL) doesn't appear on the second...
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May 24, 2012 Posted By:
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The traditional personal computer business is shrinking. The tablet is just taking off
FORTUNE -- Asymco's Horace Dediu put this chart together Wednesday after Dell's (DELL) earnings miss -- the first in which management acknowledged the competition from Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG). Dediu writes:
"And so, two years later, the impact of the iPad is...
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May 24, 2012 Posted By:
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How the company is changing in the post-Steve Jobs era
FORTUNE -- Adam Lashinsky, whose 240-page book Inside Apple taught us more about how Apple (AAPL) works as a company than 656 pages of the Steve Jobs biography, has the cover of the current issue of Fortune: How Tim Cook Is Changing Apple.
He touches all the bases that had...
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