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* Netflix (NFLX) signed a deal with Dreamworks (DWA) that will allow the streaming service to exclusively serve up new movies as well as older content to users in 2013. The company reportedly outbid HBO -- Dreamsworks' previous home content supplier -- by paying an estimated $30 million per film. (GigaOm)
* Michael Arrington explains the MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Sep 26, 2011 3:30 AM ET
Between the company, the Street and the amateur analysts, a range of $9.4 billion
Click to enlarge. Data: Company reports, Thomson Financial, Apple 2.0
Apple's (AAPL) fourth fiscal quarter of 2011 ended Saturday, and depending whose estimates you believe, it was either a ho-hum quarter or a record-smasher.
The chart at right shows the actual revenue and earnings per share for the previous 11 quarters -- Q1 2009 through Q3 2011. In MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 25, 2011 5:18 PM ET
"Let me describe the world I live in"
Jobs at WWDC 1997
Steve Jobs got a lot off his chest in his Q&A session with developers at WWDC 1997 -- the first after he returned to Apple (AAPL) from his years in the desert at NeXT.
We've dipped once before into the 70-minute video (available here) to highlight his remarks about Wall Street and the press. (See The stock will take care MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 24, 2011 5:41 AM ETShe's a seasoned executive, but there's a big difference between running e-commerce firm eBay and one of the largest, trickiest technology companies in the world. Here's what she needs to do on Day One.
FORTUNE -- It's not easy being CEO. That's especially true if you run a massive company that doesn't quite know what to do with itself. HP's Leo Apotheker learned the hard way when he was ousted to MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Sep 23, 2011 11:37 AM ET
When did an All Things Digital become the keeper of Apple's event calendar?
We don't recall getting an invitation from Apple to an event on Oct. 4 or any other date, but that hasn't stopped analysts from alerting their clients exactly what to expect from the company that day. Jeffries' Peter Misek, for example, issued this note on Friday:
Apple holding press event on October 4.
Takeaway: We expect Apple (AAPL) to focus MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 23, 2011 11:16 AM ET
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg showed marked improvement at his keynote during this week's f8 conference. With Jobs retired, could this social networking confab take the spotlight away from Apple?
By Dan Mitchell, contributor
FORTUNE -- Just a couple of years ago, Mark Zuckerberg made few public appearances. When he did appear before a crowd, he often drew snarky criticism for his difficulty expressing himself. As an ubergeek, he's still an unlikely public speaker. MORE
Dan Mitchell, contributor - Sep 23, 2011 10:28 AM ET
It may actually reach its goal of opening 30 new stores in the last quarter of fiscal 2011
Source: MIC Gadget
This will be a big weekend for Apple (AAPL) retail, with seven grand openings scheduled on four continents over two days. The new stores, according to ifoAppleStore:
IFC Mall (Hong Kong)
Nanjing East (Shanghai)
Westfield Hornsby (Australia)
Centro Sicilia (Italy)
New Haven (Conn.)
Metrotown (Canada)
Le Chesnay (France)
Videos of huge crowds and over-excited staffers have already started to pop up on YouTube, including MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 23, 2011 7:25 AM ET
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Facebook's new "Timelines"-focused profile rolls out September 29.
* Facebook unveiled a flurry of new features at yesterday's f8 conference in San Francisco, including "Timelines," a radical re-imagining of the user profile that organizes your activity into a timeline-like format. The new profile (see above) starts rolling out September 29, but MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Sep 23, 2011 3:30 AM ET
Apple (AAPL) got clobbered Thursday, losing $10.32 (2.5%) to close at $401.82. But it got clobbered less than the rest of the market. Exxon Mobil (XOM), in particular, fell 3.79%.
Bottom line: Apple, whose market capitalization trailed Exxon's by $50 billion three months ago, and which first overtook Exxon six weeks later, is now the world's most valuable public company by $35.87 billion.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 22, 2011 5:37 PM ET
What began a few years back as a fringe festival for hackers — Facebook's f8 -- has turned into the de facto ground zero for anyone interested in helping build the infrastructure of tomorrow's internet.
By Jessi Hempel, senior writer
FORTUNE -- Mark Zuckerberg took the stage today at f8, Facebook's sort-of-annual developers' conference, to the screaming affirmation of thousands of laptop-toting fanboys (and also a few women) and a live-streaming audience MORE
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