Two reasons: Jobs' birthplace and, reportedly, a speaking invitation he blew off in 2009
Ive and Jobs in 2002
The news that Jonathan Ive, Apple's (AAPL) chief wizard of industrial design, has been made a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) and should henceforth be addressed as Sir Jony, raises once again the question of why his boss and closest collaborator was never so honored.
According to a story that surfaced in MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 31, 2011 8:24 AM ET
A stock-market anomaly, a new iPhone, a second iPad, two new wireless carriers, a swarm of lawsuits and a malware false alarm
What the hell happened to AAPL on Feb. 10? Image: Andy Zaky
Out of the 793 items about Apple (AAPL) filed in this space over the past 12 months, these were the 10 that -- for good or ill -- interested the most readers:
Snapshot of an Apple flash crash: What triggered MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 31, 2011 7:00 AM ET
Google's U.S. market share continues to grow against Apple, but at a much slower pace
Data: ComScore. Charts: PED
"In case you needed more proof that Android is walloping iOS," writes Steve Kovach in Thursday's Business Insider, "ComScore's three-month report on mobile subscribers (ending in November) is out."
He points out, as others have, that Apple's (AAPL) smartphone market share grew a bit, from 27.3% to 28.7% over the past three months. But, he writes, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 30, 2011 6:42 AM ET
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* Verizon Wireless (VZ) ruffled some feathers after users of its high-speed 4G network experienced the fourth outage of the year and the third this month alone. Also, news of a $2 surcharge fee for one-time credit or debit card payments conducted via phone or online spread, somewhat inaccurately, causing customers MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Dec 30, 2011 6:00 AM ET
Three out of four U.S. firms with fewer than 1,000 employees, that's who
Source: The NPD Group
Small and medium businesses (SMBs) have caught tablet fever, according to the results of an NPD survey fielded in September and released Thursday.
Among these SMBs (defined as firms with fewer than 1,000 employees), 73% plan to purchase tablets in 2012, up from 68% three months earlier. And over the next 12 months they plan MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 29, 2011 10:56 AM ET
Even for a stock as volatile as Apple, Wednesday was a weird one
According to Terry Gregory, who keeps track of such things at AAPLInvestors.net, Apple (AAPL) was set to register its 8th highest close of all time -- $408.25 -- Wednesday before the selling started. By 4 p.m., it had fallen to $402.64 a share, its 19th highest close.
Gregory's one-word comment on Investor Village's AAPL Sanity board: "Ugh."
Subscribers to the theory of MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 29, 2011 8:24 AM ET
Only the Paul Allen-Bill Gates feud and Borders' liquidation prevented a clean sweep
Source: WSJ.com
If you ever wondered why there are so many reporters -- like this one -- covering Apple (AAPL), here's a clue:
According to Thursday's Wall Street Journal, eight out of 10 of the most-read corporate news stories on WSJ.com in 2011 were about Steve Jobs or the company he brought back from the brink of bankruptcy.
Only the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 29, 2011 7:15 AM ET
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Yelp, led by co-founder and CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, is poised to go public next year.
* With both Facebook and Yelp poised to go public next year, the tech industry may raise $11 billion next year, making 2012 the biggest year for U.S. Internet IPOs since 1999 -- a year MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Dec 29, 2011 6:00 AM ET
As rumors of a "real" Apple TV heat up, ideas that could upend the industry resurface
Photo: Michael Copeland
In late 2009, the Wall Street Journal ran a story that sent shivers through the television industry.
Quoting unnamed sources familiar with Apple's (AAPL) negotiations, the Journal reported that CBS (CBS) and ABC (DIS) were seriously considering Steve Jobs' plan to offer TV subscriptions over the Internet.
One form those subscriptions might take, according MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 28, 2011 4:23 PM ET
If you count the iPad and iPod touch, it looks like iOS by about 1.6 million units
Estimates based on Flurry Analytics and Google tweets
Without a press release from Apple (AAPL) crowing about their Christmas sales, we're forced to rely on data from a mobile analytics firm and tweets from a Google (GOOG) senior vice president to make some rough guesses.
Here's what we know:
According to Flurry Analytics -- which claims it can detect MORE
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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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