"iCon" has run into contractual problems, say sources close to the negotiations
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It's only an Apple (AAPL) satire, but already the lawyers are playing Steve Jobs' kind of hardball.
Less than two weeks after the studio Media Rights Capital announced that it had struck a deal with the Epix channel to make a TV comedy series pilot called "iCon" -- "a scabrous satire of Silicon Valley and its MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 28, 2010 4:10 PM ET
The author of Newsweek's glowing iPad cover story sang a different tune at the unveiling
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"Some say the iPad heralds a new era of computing, and I'm inclined to believe them," writes Dan Lyons in the lead story of Newsweek's April 5 cover story. "The interface is so intuitive — navigating with your fingers rather than a keyboard and mouse — that it will change what we expect from MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 27, 2010 2:31 PM ET
Barron's estimates a healthy Jobs accounts for $25 billion of Apple's market value
Click to enlarge. Source: Barron's
Apple's (AAPL) Steve Jobs has once again made Barron's list of the 30 "most respected CEOs" in the world -- this time with a few more superlatives and a dollar figure attached.
To quote Andrew Bary's introduction (subscription required):
Probably the world's most valuable CEO is Steve Jobs of Apple, as shown by stock dips MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 27, 2010 12:09 PM ET
Shipping for pre-orders has been pushed back more than a week, to April 12
The demand curve for Apple's (AAPL) new tablet computer crossed the supply curve sometime overnight Friday.
By Saturday morning, the ship date for iPad pre-orders, originally set to guarantee delivery by April 3, had been pushed back to Tuesday April 12.
Customers who had already pre-ordered are still scheduled to get their iPads next Saturday.
Meanwhile, the option to reserve MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 27, 2010 11:32 AM ET
Assigned by Fujitsu -- which had claimed ownership -- in the nick of time
According to records received by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on March 17, 2010, Fujitsu Frontech North America has formally assigned whatever interest it had in the name IPAD to Apple Inc. (AAPL).
And not a moment too soon, given that Apple started taking pre-orders for a tablet computer by the same name five days earlier. The MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 26, 2010 5:37 PM ETMason Cohn, Producer - Mar 26, 2010 12:16 PM ET
A week before its release, online orders for the iPad averaged about 7,000 a day
Click to enlarge. Source: Daniel Tello
Pre-orders for Apple's (AAPL) tablet computer held steady a week before its April 3 release.
According to an update posted Friday morning -- two weeks to the day after Apple began accepting online orders -- an estimated 240,000 iPads had been pre-ordered for delivery.
Daniel Tello, who has been tracking order numbers MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 26, 2010 11:25 AM ET
COO Tim Cook clears $68 million before taxes; CFO Peter Oppenheimer, $46 million
Apple's senior staff had a busy -- and profitable -- trading day Thursday.
More than a million restricted shares of Apple (AAPL) stock that seven of them were granted on Dec. 14, 2005 became fully vested Wednesday. The next day, with Apple opening at an all-time record high, four of them sold off all those shares pursuant, as the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 26, 2010 7:31 AM ET
In this episode of Techmate, Jon and Michael quiz LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner about his company's competitors, when the online network may go public, and its mission of reaching half-a-billion members.
Mason Cohn, Producer - Mar 25, 2010 7:16 PM ET
Analyst sees Apple taking 35% to 40% of the tablet and e-reader market in 2010
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In a note to clients issued Thursday, BMO Capital's Keith Bachman offers several reasons for raising his price target on Apple (AAPL) to $265 a share from $250, including a 17% increase in Mac sales and the likelihood that the company will release a new iPhone in June.
But the biggest change in his MORE
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