Guess which metropolitan areas are the biggest users of Apple products?
Click to enlarge. Source: Experian Simmons
In a report issued Friday, Experian Simmons surveyed 206 so-called DMAs (designated market areas, or what we used to call "cities") and identified those that have the highest concentration of Apple (AAPL) users.
The idea was to anticipate in what parts of the continental U.S. consumers were most likely to line up for the new MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 16, 2010 2:24 PM ET
Fortune's Jessica Shambora and others are Tweeting about the Rice Business Plan Competition on Twitter, under the hashtag #RBPC. Click to follow the updates coming out of the competition.
Paul Smalera, Senior Editor - Apr 16, 2010 12:01 PM ET
Journalism organizations discover -- belatedly -- that Steve Jobs is a control freak
Cartoon: Mark Fiore
"It's time for the press to push back at Apple," reads the headline of Ryan Chittum's clarion call in Thursday's Columbia Journalism Review.
"Apple Wants to Own You," warns Slate's media critic Jack Shafer. "Welcome to our velvet prison, say the boys and girls from Cupertino."
"What's insane," Shafer continues, riffing on Apple's (AAPL) old "insanely great" MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 16, 2010 7:21 AM ET
Sun's former chief talks Oracle, Apple, Microsoft and how in his next company nepotism will be 'not a bug but a feature.'
Scott McNealy
The tech world has been a less interesting place since former Sun Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy stepped away from the company he co-founded. You will remember that Oracle (ORCL) boss Larry Ellison swooped in about a year ago and bought Sun from beneath IBM MORE
Apr 15, 2010 5:56 PM ET
The third in a series of previews of Apple's results for the second fiscal quarter of 2010
Click to enlarge. Source: Company reports, Piper Jaffray
Earlier this week we sampled the Street's expectations for Apple's (AAPL) iPhone and Mac sales in the fiscal quarter that ended on March 27.
Today we look at the analysts' Q2 2010 estimates for a product line in transition: from simple MP3 players like the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 15, 2010 7:55 AM ET
The demand for high value health care by big corporations is real
By Colin Evans & Jacob Sattelmair, Dossia
Employer health care spending has been rising at a rate of over 9% annually, according to PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
The health legislation recently passed will expand access to health insurance, but will leave the health care system unreformed. Not only that, but challenges faced by large employers remain largely unchanged.
Employer health care spending has been MORE
Apr 14, 2010 6:21 PM ET
Think on the bright side. Nine billion people is a lot of people to sell stuff too. But can the world handle it?
At Fortune's Brainstorm Green conference Wednesday, business and environmental leaders were cheery.
"I definitely vote for opportunity," said Glenn Prickett, chief external affairs officer for the Nature Conservancy. "I don't think you can be in the conservation community and not be an optimist."
"We all must think of it as MORE
Steve Hargreaves, staff writer - Apr 14, 2010 4:31 PM ET
You see them at the supermarket - plump, ripe red tomatoes that look so healthy and tasty. But then you realize they're organic, and likely to cost twice what the shabby slicing tomatoes do. So back on the shelf they go.
Yet buying organic is not only good for the body, it's good for the earth. So how to bring more organic food to more consumers at a cheaper price?
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Steve Hargreaves, staff writer - Apr 14, 2010 3:11 PM ET
Silicon Alley Insider peers into the future and sees nothing but conflict
Battling CEOs. Image: Silicon Alley Insider
Google and Apple have already butted heads, first in mobile phones with Google's (GOOG) release of the Nexus One, then in online advertising with Apple's (AAPL) announcement of the iAd platform.
But those conflicts are just a prelude to bigger brawls to come, says Silicon Alley Insider's Jay Yarow. In a slideshow posted Wednesday, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 14, 2010 11:50 AM ET
What's the Big Idea? Judge for Yourself
By Josh Hyatt, contributor
Call it April Madness. In just a few days, 42 teams of student entrepreneurs will compete in a grinding competition to win a record-busting $1 million in cash and prizes.
Meet the 42 teams who have been chosen – out of 420 entries – to face off in Rice University's Tenth Annual Rice Business Plan Competition, the country's largest and wealthiest graduate-level MORE
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