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December 24, 2012 Posted By:
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Only a few years in, and already the mobile application ecosystem has become an unfathomable jungle of applications – some 700,000-plus in the two top mobile app stores, Apple’s App Store and Google Play. And yet, we’re still waiting for the Google of the mobile app era to come in and save us from the mess that is today’s app...
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December 24, 2012 Posted By:
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The story rose and sank in less than a week
FORTUNE -- It was, in many ways, the perfect Apple-in-the-post-Steve-Jobs-era yarn, although in truth it had nothing to do with Apple (AAPL) and not much to do with Jobs.
On Friday, Reuters reported that the 260-foot aluminum yacht that Jobs commissioned before he died had been seized by Dutch authorities in a...
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December 24, 2012 Posted By:
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Which is more than you can say for most of Apple's competitors -- or the S&P 500
FORTUNE -- Despite the three-month-long drubbing that lopped $248 billion (26%) off Apple's market cap, its shares are still up 28.39% for the year.
In fact, many analysts believe those gains are the primary reason the stock fell from its all-time intraday high of $705.07 in...
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December 23, 2012 Posted By:
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Someone with an axe to grind has been messing with Lucy Koh's page
FORTUNE -- At 8:07 p.m. Friday a Wikipedia user identified only by his or her IP address -- 173.63.98.107 -- added the following paragraph to the Wikipedia entry for Judgy Lucy H. Koh, who oversaw the Apple v. Samsung patent infringement trial last August:
It has been discussed extensively in...
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December 23, 2012 Posted By:
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What better way to celebrate failures than to serenade loved ones, iPad to iPad mini?
FORTUNE -- More than one TV viewer tuning in to CNN Friday morning for House Speaker John Boehner's grim press conference was surprised to see it punctuated with a new, cheery, Christmas-themed Apple (AAPL) ad.
The spot, which has since gone into prime-time rotation, features a young...
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December 22, 2012 Posted By:
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"Technical issues" that scuttled a $140,000 Kickstarter project may have been resolved
FORTUNE -- It's a story familiar to any third-party developer who's tried to bend Apple's (AAPL) inflexible technical guidelines.
Start-up comes up with a novel idea -- in this case a portable charging device called Pop that can simultaneously recharge up to four devices: iPhones (new and old), iPads (mini...
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December 22, 2012 Posted By:
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Remember all of this excitement hoopla over Facebook’s latest standalone app, Poke, just yesterday? You aren’t the only one that is interested, apparently. As The Next Web reports, Poke by Facebook has hit the #1 free app spot on Apple’s App Store, just a day after being released.
Make no mistake about it, the big companies like...
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December 21, 2012 Posted By:
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Apple, Microsoft and Google may all be vying for the attention of a single startup, according to a new report yesterday from The Wall Street Journal. That startup is id8 Group R2 Studios Inc., a company with a rather obtuse name that flies primarily under the radar, tackling home automation software for mobile devices. So why are the...
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December 21, 2012 Posted By:
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Both now boast more than 700,000 apps, but Apple's store generates 4.3 times more cash
FORTUNE -- Manufacturers on Google's (GOOG) Android platform may be selling more devices, but Apple's (AAPL) App Store is still the best place to be for developers trying to make a living.
That's the bottom line in the year-end review published Friday by Distimo, a Dutch analytics company:
"On...
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December 21, 2012 Posted By:
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Apple hit highest-ever 53.3% share by Nov. 25, up from 38.8% in 2011, Kantar reports
FORTUNE -- It's been exactly three months since Apple (AAPL) launched the iPhone 5, and the effect on the data released Friday by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech couldn't be clearer -- at least in the U.S.
In the 12 weeks ending Nov. 25 -- including Black Friday, but not...
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