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February 20, 2012 Posted By:
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Nightline to air its special after the kids are asleep Tuesday at 11:35 p.m. ET and PT
Weir at Foxconn. Source: ABC
Four years ago, when I first starting writing about Foxconn, it was almost impossible to get a photo of the factory workers who assemble 40% of the world's electronic devices.
Now, 18 suicides, two fatal explosions, an...
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February 20, 2012 Posted By:
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Last week, it looked like Apple was gaining the upper hand in its ongoing trademark battle with Proview over the use of the name iPad, with a court ruling in Apple’s favor, and new documents that seemed to indicate Apple legitimately bought “iPad” from Proview. Today, however, a Guangdong province local court has apparently ruled against Apple, with the decision...
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February 20, 2012 Posted By:
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But 55- to 64-year olds who make more than $100,000 a year are big buyers too
"Whether or not you have a smartphone is closely related to both how old you are and how much money you make," finds a Nielsen survey of 20,000 Americans with mobile phones conducted in January. I quote:
While overall smartphone penetration stood at 48...
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February 19, 2012 Posted By:
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The timing may be suspicious, but the OS looks more to Google than to Microsoft
"Apple Speeds Mac 'Mountain Lion' to Take On Windows 8" Bloomberg Businessweek
"Steve Jobs is gone, Windows 8 is coming and Apple panics" betanews
As predicted, the tech press spent much of the rest of the week trying to make sense of last Tuesday's news...
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February 18, 2012 Posted By:
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Something jammed its blood funnel into Apple's share price last week
"Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression."
So wrote Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi in his 2010 takedown of Goldman Sachs -- the article that famously described the 143-year-old banking house as "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its...
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February 18, 2012 Posted By:
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Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Frank Barbieri, the SVP of Emerging Platforms at YuMe. You can follow him @frankba
I had dinner last week with a senior exec from a global advertising holding company who asked what I often get asked these days, “What’s going on with mobile advertising?” it’s a timely question as last week...
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February 18, 2012 Posted By:
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An analyst with a $270 target and "sell short" rating may have a credibility problem
I applaud my CNNMoney colleague Hibah Yousuf for trying to pin down which hedge funds have been dumping their Apple (AAPL) shares lately, but I'm not sure I would have used ACI Research's Edward Zabitsky as a source for a piece entitled Not...
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February 17, 2012 Posted By:
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A lesson in access journalism in the wake of the New York Times' Foxconn series
"An Apple spokesman said no executives were available to comment."
That sentence, appearing 12 paragraphs into a 14-graph story by Brian X. Chen in Thursday's New York Times, speaks volumes about how Apple (AAPL) deals with press coverage it doesn't like.
For more than a week, the...
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February 17, 2012 Posted By:
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Apple has an undeniably big opportunity in China, but it is still facing some big challenges. As the iPhone maker claimed the top spot as the world’s biggest smartphone vendor in the last quarter (October-December), it actually slipped in the rankings in China and is now in fifth position after ZTE.
But with Apple only kicking off sales of the iPhone...
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February 17, 2012 Posted By:
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It sometimes feels like an absurd story without an ending, trying to track who is attacking whom in the mobile patent game, and who is “winning.” But Google has now secured one patent that may just demonstrate that companies are figuring out ways of getting around would-be infringement issues — and possibly lead to producing more differentiated products in the...
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