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April 29, 2013 Posted By:
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SEC filing suggests that its $60 billion stock buyback has not yet begun in earnest.
FORTUNE -- Apple (AAPL) on Monday set in motion the financial mechanisms necessary to initiate the $100 billion cash management plan announced last week.
By 11 a.m., according to an SEC Form S-3 filing, the company will have deposited the cash necessary to pay accrued dividends. According to...
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April 29, 2013 Posted By:
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Ten years later, it's the sprawling digital mall known as the Apple iTunes Store
FORTUNE -- Asymco's Horace Dediu contributed to the bouquet of articles celebrating the iTunes Store's 10th anniversary with a story for Billboard magazine and the bar chart above, posted with a score of eye-popping data points in Happy Birthday iTunes Store.
What struck me, looking at Apple's most recent...
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April 28, 2013 Posted By:
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"Explosive" interest in buying Samsung smartphones approaches iPhone levels in U.S.
FORTUNE -- When the Galaxy S4 arrives in the U.S. next week, Samsung is likely to experience its fourth and biggest wave yet of smartphone buying, according to a proprietary ChangeWave poll of early-adopter types conducted between March 21 and April 2.
The results from the survey of 4,011 ChangeWave members, which we...
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April 28, 2013 Posted By:
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We didn't see customers queuing up, but we did spot some entertaining YouTubes.
FORTUNE -- Samsung doesn't have Apple's (AAPL) network of company-owned stores to draw lines of customers, but it's found others ways to attract crowds for the launch of its latest Galaxy smartphone.
Below: Highlights from the Galaxy S4 Worldtour.
Seoul:
Johannesburg:
Mumbai:
New Delhi:
Vancouver:
New York City:
See also: Samsung's event marketing makes Apple's hype look tame.
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April 27, 2013 Posted By:
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The Yankee Group has seen the future of the smartphone and it belongs to Apple's iOS
FORTUNE -- "Samsung's Radio City Music Hall launch of its Galaxy S IV smartphone made good headlines, but consumer buying data shows that at the checkout counter, Apple continues to eat Samsung's lunch."
So writes the Yankee Group's Carl Howe, in defiance of conventional wisdom, summarizing...
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April 27, 2013 Posted By:
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At $605,000, bidding for a meeting with Apple's CEO approaches a CharityBuzz record
FORTUNE -- It's not Eric Clapton's platinum wristwatch, which fetched $3.6 million for his Crossroads rehab center, or Warren Buffett's $3.5 million lunch for the Glide Foundation for the homeless. But it seems likely that bidding for a chance to have coffee with Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook is...
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April 26, 2013 Posted By:
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For the first time, says IDC, more smartphones were shipped than feature phones
FORTUNE -- The headline of IDC's quarterly report on the state of the global mobile phone market Friday was that for the first time, smartphone shipments overtook feature phones on the strength of their 41.6% year over year growth. The overall cellphone market, by contrast, grew an anemic 4%.
"Phone users...
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April 26, 2013 Posted By:
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Hon Hai is planning to diversify its business away from producing Apple devices by signing an agreement with Indonesia to make and sell handsets in that country, reports Reuters.
A Hon Hai spokesman said that the company, which derives about 60 to 70 percent of its revenue from manufacturing work for Apple, hopes to sign the agreement next...
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April 26, 2013 Posted By:
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April 26, 2013 Posted By:
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"Every day, more photos are taken with the iPhone than any other camera."
FORTUNE -- It's not every day that John Gruber's Daring Fireball and Henry Blodget's Business Insider agree on anything having to do with Apple (AAPL). But on Friday, they both agreed that Every Day is one of the company's best TV ads in a long time.
Could it have...
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