In the latest court filing in the ongoing Justice Department e-books price-fixing suit, Apple says it did not conspire to fix the prices of digital books to hurt competitors and its business strategy around pricing was “perfectly proper,” according to a Reuters report. Read More »
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In addition to honoring the best of the Web in 2012, Monday night’s Webby Awards included a tribute to Steve Jobs. The segment honoring Apple’s co-founder included appearances from President Barack Obama, President Bill Clinton, Buzz Aldrin, George Lucas, Vint Cerf and more. Here’s the video. Read More »
Here’s our daily pick of stories about Apple from around the web. Today’s installment: Possible peace in the European SIM card standard battle, Steve Jobs’ dream of the iCar, state of the App Store near its fourth birthday, and more details about Jobs’ biopic. Read More »
Here’s our daily pick of stories about Apple from around the web that you shouldn’t miss. Today’s installment: The other Steve Jobs movie (without Ashton Kutcher), China Mobile and Apple keep talking, Sprint looks longterm with the iPhone, and Tim Cook goes to Washington. Read More »
Is Apple Tim Cook finally weary of the stress and financial toll of maintaining mobile patent suits in courtrooms around the world? In perhaps his strongest public comments yet on the mobile patent disputes, Cook made his distate for litigation clear. Read More »
Brent Schlender, a veteran journalist who wrote for Fortune and the Wall Street Journal found some interview tapes that shed new light on Steve Jobs’ life. The highlight of these tapes for me was Pixar and the role it played in shaping Jobs & Apple’s future. Read More »
Nine days after monologist Mike Daisey was exposed as a fabulist, a man who manufactured personal stories about Apple’s supply chain in China in hopes of selling a message and theater tickets, he finally apologized for his actions. He once again left out a key detail. Read More »
Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer will host a conference call Monday with investors and discuss company’s position on its massive pile of cash — nearly $100 billion — and what it intends to do with it. Read More »
It is easy to get caught up in the drama around iPad sales, the death of the laptop or Apple’s tussle with Google’s Android. However, once I handed an iPad to my mom, and after her FaceTime-ing with her grandkids, none of the drama mattered. Read More »
At Goldman Sachs’ investor conference Tuesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook gave some rare color on how he views not only his own job as Steve Jobs’ successor, but also his views on the company’s $98 billion cash pile. Read More »
In 1991, when Steve Jobs was still at NeXT, the FBI opened a file on him. He was up for a presidential appointment, so the bureau was charged with clearing him via a thorough background check. The heavily redacted document is now online. Read More »
With $100B in cash, there have been quite a few whispers about an Apple dividend, starting when Tim Cook officially become CEO. But after years of wishful thinking on the part of longtime investors in Apple, it’s starting to look like it could actually happen soon. Read More »