Think the popular game has peaked? These astonishing stats may make you think twice.
From left: Pandora's Tony Conrad, Rovio North America General Manager Andrew Stalbow. Photo: JP Mangalindan/Fortune
FORTUNE -- Angry Birds is the game franchise that just keeps on giving.
Some wonder whether the casual video game's popularity has peaked. Rovio's General Manager for North America, Andrew Stalbow, thinks otherwise. Today, Stalbow revealed that there have been 350 million Angry Birds downloads MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Sep 12, 2011 2:24 PM ET
Intel is prodding PC manufacturers to make better ultra-thin and light laptops like Apple's MacBook Air. But the concept faces strong headwinds -- and tough competition.
FORTUNE -- When Apple launched the MacBook Air, it got flack: not fast enough, not enough ports, too pricey, the optional external optical disc drive had as much portable appeal as a brick. Fast-forward three years, and the current version of the Air has become MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Sep 12, 2011 12:13 PM ET
ESPN's deal to pay $15 billion for Monday Night Football could incite a revolt against the cable industry's basic business model.
FORTUNE -- The idea that American television viewers should be free to buy just the TV channels they want has always proven a pipe dream. It's a silly idea, cable and satellite operators have convinced politicians and regulators: selling channels in packages funds a wider variety of programming, actually leaving MORE
Sep 12, 2011 9:53 AM ET
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* Amazon (AMZN) is reportedly planning a Netflix-like ebook rental service where users will be able to pay a fixed monthly fee to get access to a digital library. (The Wall Street Journal via The Next Web)
* CBS News severed its relationship with What's Trending and its blogger MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Sep 12, 2011 3:30 AM ET
The network has dropped the celebrity blogger whose site issued the erroneous report
Shira Lazar. Source: Facebook
Hours after a false report Friday that Apple's (AAPL) CEO had died set newsrooms around the world scrambling for confirmation, CBS News severed its relationship with both What's Trending, the site that issued the erroneous tweet, and the celebrity blogger who produced it, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Shira Lazar, 28, a Canadian-born actress and MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 10, 2011 9:40 PM ET
Ripe target, easy to spoof, smack in the middle of his demographic sweet spot
Source: The Conan O'Brian Show
The Conan O'Brian Show Thursday night aired yet another mock Apple (AAPL) video -- its fourth this year, by our count. (See here, here and here.)
This one picks up where news stories about the lost iPhone 5 left off, with Cupertino's crack engineers devising ever more fiendish punishments for whomever took the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 10, 2011 12:56 PM ET
The videogame retailer has started accepting trade-ins of used Apple products -- and that may mean a bigger change for their business.
By Daniel Roberts, reporter
FORTUNE -- The news that GameStop stores are buying used Apple devices alongside traditional consoles and video games hit the Web this week and went viral almost immediately. Many bloggers began stating outright that the chain will also sell new Apple devices, such as the iPod MORE
Sep 9, 2011 3:34 PM ET
Hasty revisions three weeks before the end of Apple's last fiscal quarter of the year
It happens every three months. As the end of Apple's (AAPL) fiscal quarter approaches, the small army of analysts that cover the stock dusts off its spreadsheets, finds them overly conservative and starts issuing revisions. If history is any guide, the numbers will be revised again -- upward -- when the company reports its Q4 2011 MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 9, 2011 10:03 AM ET
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* Ousted Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz had some choice words for the company's board -- "These people f---ed me over," she told colleague Pattie Sellers -- despite having a non-disparaging clause in her employee contract. (Fortune)
* Google (GOOG) bought restaurant and travel guide Zagat, presumably for less than $66 MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Sep 9, 2011 8:46 AM ET
FORTUNE -- When Steve Jobs stepped down in August as Apple's CEO for health reasons, it got us thinking about the arc of his spectacular career. His product presentations became rock star events that continually disrupted the industry. --Anne VanderMey
Photographs are culled from launches, expos, and Jobs' other appearances with new products. Sources: Apple; The Fortune Archive; The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif.
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| Bank of America Corp... | 7.24 | -0.06 | -0.89% |
| Ford Motor Co | 12.28 | -0.46 | -3.61% |
| Frontier Communicati... | 4.20 | -0.27 | -6.04% |
| Juniper Networks Inc... | 21.65 | -0.72 | -3.22% |
| Cisco Systems Inc | 19.58 | -0.25 | -1.26% |
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| Dow | 12,666.14 | -68.49 | -0.54% |
| Nasdaq | 2,813.49 | 8.21 | 0.29% |
| S&P 500 | 1,315.99 | -2.44 | -0.19% |
| Treasuries | 1.91 | -0.02 | -1.19% |
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