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For fun: Apple’s ‘magical’ iPad
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 … Continue reading
Apple to DOJ: Bite me
The Justice Department may regret trying to make its e-book antitrust suit stick to Apple Click to enlarge. FORTUNE — I haven’t had so much fun reading legal documents since the Watergate trials. I loved U.S. v. Apple et al. … Continue reading
Sweating The Small Stuff: Sotheby’s Selling Original Steve Jobs Note About Atari Circuit Improvements
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 … Continue reading
Apple CEO Tim Cook to forgo a $75 million dividend payout
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 … Continue reading
Apple Responds To DOJ eBook Lawsuit, Calls it “Fundamentally Flawed” and “Absurd”
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 … Continue reading
Gene Munster: 10 thoughts about how Apple gets to $1,000
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 … Continue reading
Apple’s iOS and Mac App Stores Now Feature “Free App Of The Week” And “Editor’s Choice” Promotions
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 … Continue reading
Apple tops Goldman Sachs’ VIP list of hedge fund stocks
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 … Continue reading
Chart of the day: Apple’s iPad as the PC market’s cutting edge
The traditional personal computer business is shrinking. The tablet is just taking off Source: Asymco.com 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 … Continue reading
Tim Cook’s Apple: More MBAs, more emphasis on execution
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 … Continue reading
