By one estimate, pre-orders were coming in Friday morning at the rate of 25,000 per hour
The folks who hang out at Investor Village's AAPL Sanity Board are too impatient to wait for Apple (AAPL) to announce sales figures; they much prefer to work them out on their own -- in real time.
Entering the order numbers associated with their own purchases on a Google spreadsheet, they think they've cracked the code. MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 12, 2010 12:58 PM ET
Shares surge on iPad pre-orders, making Apple America's third most valuable company
UPDATE: That was short-lived. By March 15, Apple's market cap had fallen below Wal-Mart's once again.
Ninety minutes after Apple (AAPL) opened its online store for iPad pre-orders Friday morning, a burst of trading -- roughly 2 million shares in 30 minutes -- pushed its stock price to $227.73 and its market cap to $206.5 billion.
That, and a dip in MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 12, 2010 10:43 AM ET
Foursquare and Gowalla are squaring off for the title of top tagger at Austin's annual tech-fest.
By Caroline Waxler, contributor
The annual South By Southwest Interactive conference kicks off Friday and the advance buzz is all about a fierce competition between two location-tagging social networking companies: Foursquare and Gowalla. (Disclosure: I know the Foursquare co-founders.)
These services help you locate where your friends and contacts are at any given moment -- perfect MORE
Mar 12, 2010 9:24 AM ET
Once again, Steve Jobs has stirred his customers into a frenzy
Photos: Apple Inc.
Even before Apple (AAPL) opened its online store for pre-orders Friday morning the company's fanbase -- and the press that feeds it -- had worked themselves into a lather.
A one-sentence e-mail from Apple PR Thursday afternoon confirming the hour on Friday that buyers in the U.S. can start ordering the company's latest creation -- 8:30 a.m. ET, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 12, 2010 6:36 AM ET
The NCAA and digital video partner Thought Equity Motion are testing whether March Madness fans will want to watch old highlights on the web.
The NCAA and Thought Equity Motion partnered to create the NCAA Vault, a fan-friendly archive of video highlights from past March Madness tournaments.
Most people are glad to see March arrive. For some it's the start of spring and warmer weather; for others, it's the month-long MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Mar 11, 2010 2:14 PM ET
They're lean, clean, power-generating machines. But would a town really bury a mini nuclear reactor under its streets?
By Brian Dumaine, assistant managing editor
Long left for dead, the U.S. nuclear power industry appears poised for a comeback.
President Barack Obama earlier this year announced an $8.3 billion loan guarantee to help the Georgia utility Southern Co. build two large reactors, and he wants to triple the amount of federal loan guarantees for MORE
Mar 11, 2010 8:00 AM ET
Google CEO Eric Schmidt answered questions from attendees at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit. Photo: Jon Fortt
ABU DHABI – Google CEO Eric Schmidt's speech and Q&A here was probably the most popular event at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit; there was standing room only on Wednesday as he extolled the virtues of the Internet and the goodness of Google (GOOG). His audience, mostly a mix of tech-savvy locals, international media MORE
Jon Fortt - Mar 11, 2010 7:00 AM ET
His net worth is a rapidly moving target, thanks to his holdings in Apple and Disney
Photo: UPI/Jim Ruyman
Forbes' list of The World's Billionaires, published Thursday, estimated Steve Jobs' net worth at $5.5 billion, which made him the 136th richest person in the world.
But by their own admission, the list -- the work, they say, of more than 40 reporters in 13 countries toiling for the better part of a MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 11, 2010 6:27 AM ET
Google's U.S. smartphone market share has more than doubled, while Apple's has stalled
Source: comScore
Wonder why Google's (GOOG) Android makes Steve Jobs nervous? Check out the chart at right.
It's from the comScore mobile subscriber report issued Tuesday and it shows Android registering the largest market share gains of the U.S.'s five leading smartphone operating systems.
Over the past three months, Google's share of the U.S. smartphone market grew to 7.1% from MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 10, 2010 4:13 PM ET
Steve Jobs, with his tux and his iPad, is a force to contend with in Hollywood
Photo: Zadi Diaz. Click to enlarge.
At the end of his amusing Infoworld post Monday about the 82nd Academy Awards, the writer who calls himself Robert X. Cringely asks a series of rhetorical questions:
"Who was the richest person in attendance? Who has the most influence and commands the biggest audience? Who's the least bound to MORE
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