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Apple still top global brand as value jumps: survey

Posted by admin under Apple News on Wednesday May 23, 2012

NEW YORK (AFP) – Apple has extended its lead as the world’s most valuable corporate name with a strong 19 percent increase in its so-called brand value, a survey showed Tuesday.

The research firm Millward Brown Optimor, a unit of advertising and communications giant WPP, found that Apple’s brand value increased 19 percent to $182.9 billion, holding the top spot for the second straight year.
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Apple to drop Google Maps from iOS 6

Posted by admin under Apple News on Friday May 11, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO – Apple will drop Google Maps from its upcoming mobile platform iOS 6 in favor of its own mapping system, it was reported on Friday.
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iPad dominates due to Apple’s supply deals

Posted by admin under iPad, iPad News on Saturday Mar 10, 2012

NEW YORK (AP) — Apple certainly has lots of buzz and corporate cache behind its products, but there’s a hidden — almost mundane — reason its newest iPad is likely to dominate the competition: the advantageous deals the company cuts with components manufacturers.
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Google sells digital music in iTunes challenge

Posted by admin under Apple News on Thursday Nov 17, 2011

Google has opened a digital music store in a direct challenge to Apple’s iTunes and Amazon’s online shop.

“Today we are happy to announce you can buy millions of songs right from Android Market,” Google product manager Paul Joyce said at a press event in Los Angeles.
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Eric Schmidt defends Google, mourns Jobs’ death

Posted by gracelim under Apple News on Tuesday Nov 8, 2011

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt on Tuesday defended his company as a great innovator, contradicting an unflattering portrait drawn by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs before he died last month. Read More

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If you own an electric vehicle, you want to know where all the charging stations are. Thanks to the new iPhone and Android app CarStations, you can do that easily with the help of your smartphone. Read More

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Yahoo hopes to reach readers with iPad magazine

Posted by gracelim under iPad on Wednesday Nov 2, 2011

SUNNYVALE, California (AP) — Yahoo has begun to distribute an iPad magazine that illuminates the Internet company‘s ambitions and the chronic troubles that have thrown its fate into doubt. Read More

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Is the iPhone’s Siri a threat to Google?

Posted by admin under Apple News, iPhone News on Tuesday Nov 1, 2011

Some say Apple’s vocal virtual assistant — a big step forward in voice-recognition technology — could threaten Google’s stranglehold on search
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Andy Goldberg, dpa

San Francisco (dpa) – Apple’s legendary co-founder Steve Jobs has a posthumous hit on his hands with the launch of the iPhone 4S, which was unveiled one day before his death on October 5.

Perhaps inspired by the passing of the peerless tech visionary, customers have been streaming to Apple stores to buy the company’s latest smartphone. In the first weekend alone, they snapped up more than 4 million of the devices.
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iPod godfather builds new Nest in Silicon Valley

Posted by gracelim under iPods on Tuesday Oct 25, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Tony Fadell, known as the godfather of the iPod, has made a new gadget with the help of a small army of engineers and designers from Apple Inc and other tech giants including Google Inc and Microsoft Corp.

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