Someone’s about to win $10,000 in App Store cash
Sometime very soon, probably Wednesday, somebody will download the 50 billionth app on iTunes. Apple will give the lucky downloader a $10,000 App Store gift card. The next 50 people to download an app after that will each receive a $500 gift card. If you’re curious to see when this might happen so you can [...]
An anonymous bidder paid $610,000 to chat over coffee with Apple’s chief executive, according to online-auction site Charity Buzz, which began accepting bids about three weeks ago. Tuesday’s winning bid came only several minutes before the auction closed at 4 pm ET. The auction site had valued the meeting with Cook at $50,000. Proceeds from [...]
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After the South Korean firm is fined more than $1bn for breaching Apple’s patents, shares in the firm fall. Samsung suffers after a court rules it infringed Apple patents Shares in Samsung have tumbled after the company was ordered to pay rival Apple more than $1bn for breaching patents. They dropped by 7.5% – the [...]
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A jury at a court in California reaches a decision on whether Samsung copied Apple’s smartphone. Samsung has been ordered to pay Apple $1.05bn (£664m) after a court in California found it had infringed patents. The decision in the complex case came after the nine-member jury began deliberations on Wednesday. Apple said it may now [...]
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Apple Inc. reported a strong jump in earnings for its third fiscal quarter on Tuesday, but the company missed Wall Street’s expectations for the period on lower-than-expected sales of the iPhone. For the quarter ended June 30, Apple AAPL -5.16% reported net income of $8.8 billion, or $9.32 per share, compared [...]
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(Mashable) Apple has agreed to pay Chinese Company Shenzhen Proview Technology $60 million for the name “iPad,” The New York Times reports. Apple has bought the iPad name in various countries from a Proview affiliate in Taiwan for $55,000 in 2009. However, a Chinese court ruled in December that Proview, which registered the iPad trademark in China back in [...]
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Ashton Kutcher seen on the set of his new movie ‘Jobs’, a biopic of the late Steve Jobs. The film’s producer Mark Hulme has stated that Kutcher believes the role of Jobs “was meant for him”. Written by Matt Whiteley and directed by Joshua Michael Stern, the film will also feature Josh Gad as Wozniak, Dermot Mulroney as [...]
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