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Blog Post Archive
Apple Submits Revised Campus 2 Plans, Delays Tantau Development to Cut Costs
Earlier this month, a report revealed that Apple's upcoming "spaceship" campus in Cupertino is both behind schedule and $2 billion over budget. Apple was said to be looking to cut costs on the project, which is apparent in the revised...Show More Summary
Tim Cook Coffee Meeting Charity Auction Hits $100,000
Charity auction site CharityBuzz kicked off a charity auction for a cup of coffee with Tim Cook this morning and the listing, which has an estimated value of $50,000, went from $5,250 to $100,000 in a matter of hours. Here are our best...Show More Summary
Former Apple Intern and iPhone Hacker Comex to Work for Google
Former Apple employee and JailbreakMe.com hacker Nicholas Allegra, better known as Comex, will be interning at Google, reports Forbes. Comex, who tweeted the news on Tuesday night, was hired by Apple as an intern in 2011. News brokeShow More Summary
Apple Offering 150 Free WWDC Tickets to Student Developers
Apple announced its 2013 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) this morning, with plans to put tickets up for sale tomorrow at 10am.
Tickets for WWDC can be hard to come by and sold out within two hours last year, but current students...Show More Summary
Tim Cook Offering Coffee Meeting at Apple HQ in Charity Auction
Charity auction site CharityBuzz is hosting a listing to have coffee with Apple CEO Tim Cook at Apple's Cupertino headquarters (via The Next Web).
The proceeds from the auction will benefit the RFK Center for Justice & Human Rights, a fitting charity as Cook said at the D10 conference that Bobby Kennedy was one of his heroes. Show More Summary
Amazon Developing Competitor to Apple TV Set-Top Box
Amazon is developing a set-top box to stream video over the Internet via its Amazon Prime and Instant Video services, according to Bloomberg Businessweek. The box will compete with similar offerings like the Apple TV and the Roku, though...Show More Summary
Apple Celebrates 'A Decade of iTunes' With New Milestone Feature
With the 10th anniversary of the iTunes Store coming up on Sunday, April 28, Apple has posted a new iTunes Store feature honoring the event. The feature is an expanded version of the iPod + iTunes Timeline that has long been available...Show More Summary
Apple Announces WWDC 2013 Scheduled for June 10-14, Tickets on Sale Tomorrow
Apple today announced that its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) will take place June 10-14 at the Moscone West convention center in San Francisco. The company also announced that tickets for the event will go on sale tomorrow...Show More Summary
Tim Cook on Mobile Payments: 'It's In Its Infancy'
Tim Cook was asked during today's earnings call about his feelings regarding the mobile payments market. While he didn't address the topic directly, he did note that the mobile payments were "just getting started" and still "in its infancy." In...Show More Summary
Tim Cook Would Have Preferred to Announce the New iMac in January
During the Q&A portion of today's earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked about the number of product releases in the fall of 2012 and whether he wished Apple had done things differently.
His answer was somewhat revealing, as Apple...Show More Summary
Tim Cook Comments on 5-Inch Phone Market, Reiterates Commitment to Quality Over Size
There have been several rumors stating that Apple is working on a larger iPhone to compete with the large screen phones from competitors like Samsung, but Tim Cook’s comments during today’s Q2 financial results call indicate that the...Show More Summary
Apple Continues to see Significant Growth in Greater China
Today's second quarter earnings release revealed that Apple continues to see high revenue growth in China, with an increase to $8.2 billion or 8 percent year-over year. Greater China represented 18.8% of Apple's total overall revenue,...Show More Summary
Apple Optimistic About Future, Lots of 'Surprises' in the Works for Fall
During today's second quarter financial results call, Apple reiterated its commitment to creating innovative products.Work we do to produce truly innovative products is very hard. Challenges that we'll face in the future, but we're working...Show More Summary
Apple More Than Doubles Capital Return Program to $100 Billion
Alongside today's earnings release, Apple also announced a major increase in its capital return program, boosting the previous $55 billion program to $100 program. Alongside a modest 15% increase in dividend payments, Apple is making...Show More Summary
Apple Reports Q2 2013 Quarterly Results: $9.5 Billion Profit on $43.6 Billion in Revenue
Apple today announced financial results for the first calendar quarter of 2013 and second fiscal quarter of 2013. For the quarter, Apple posted revenue of $43.6 billion and net quarterly profit of $9.5 billion, or $10.09 per dilutedShow More Summary
Google Buying Wavii After Bidding War With Apple
Google has bought aggregation and summarization startup Wavii for more than $30 million, winning a bidding war with Apple over the firm. TechCrunch is reporting that Apple wanted to integrate the company with its Siri division.
Both Apple and Google were competing for the Seattle-based startup, and Google eventually won. Show More Summary
Roundup of Analyst Expectations Ahead of Q2 2013 Earnings Call
Philip Elmer-Dewitt has assembled his quarterly list of analyst predictions ahead of Apple's earnings report this afternoon. The list includes estimates from 67 analysts: 26 "independent" and 41 "institutional" who work for large investment...Show More Summary
Refurbished 7th Generation iPod Nano Now Available in Apple Online Store
Apple today began offering refurbished models of the seventh-generation iPod nano in its online store, more than six months after the redesigned device was released. The addition comes roughly a week after Apple began offering refurbished...Show More Summary
Apple Continues to Dominate U.S. Online Video Purchase and Rental Markets
NPD today released a new report highlighting the U.S. online digital video market for 2012, finding that Apple continues to dominate both purchases and rentals.
In looking at purchased content, Apple holds a commanding 67% of the TVShow More Summary
Apple's Services Suffering Another Outage as iCloud Sign-In and iTunes Store Go Down
Users of Apple's online services may be experiencing yet another outage today, with the company's system status page showing issues with both iCloud account sign-in and the iTunes Store over the past several hours. Apple's status page...Show More Summary