Friday, May 2, 2014



Corporate bio of the day: Apple's Angela Ahrendts

The baroness of Burberry has landed at Apple. Let the media blitz begin.





It's an alphabetical coincidence that she's next to Tim Cook, but she posed for the head shot wearing her Burberry trench coat, a company where she was the CEO.


Angela Ahrendts officially starts role as Apple's new Senior VP of Retail and Online Stores






Microsoft stole Apple's Macintosh operating system for Windows and opened it to generic, cheap hardware.

Microsoft had not been successful designing an OS on its own.

John Sculley, then CEO of Apple who fired Steve Jobs, naively gave them the source code.

Jury's verdict in Apple vs Samsung case threatens far reaching consequences


This would be similar to the 1992 decision that, based on a technicality, dismissed Apple's "Look and Feel" case against Microsoft and cleared the way for Microsoft to take everything Apple had created for its own use, for free.

Microsoft subsequently felt so liberated from intellectual property claims that it turned around and also appropriated every element it cared to from Steve Jobs' NeXT Software as well, then signed its own name on the resulting artwork: Windows 95





How iPhone 5c helps Apple move toward larger new iPhones in the future





Google on the other hand opens-up their servers to the NSA (Washington Post)

Apple, Facebook, others defy authorities, notify users of secret data demands









Prepaid US carrier MetroPCS 'very interested' in carrying Apple's iPhone






Apple's email service reportedly auto-deleting messages from bulk 'mail mergers'






Real or manufactured by shorts?

Apple's $600 barrier





Apple Inc. Bond trading volume surges on April 30




OS X 10.10 emphasis planned for WWDC, iOS 8 features pushed to iOS 8.1, new  tv still in the works






Apple Is Hiring A 'Buzz Marketing Manager' To Get iPhones In The Hands Of More Famous People






Android Stinks and Apple's About to Prove It




Google slapped with antitrust suit, accused of stagnating competition with Android MADA contracts







Samsung hoping to upstage Apple with health-related event 5 days before WWDC


Samsung has begun hyping a health-related event to be held in San Francisco on May 28 — five days before Apple's own Worldwide Developers Conference is slated to begin in the same city.

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