Apple

War of the TV boxes heats up

Old-school DVRs are fighting to stay relevant in an era of add-on devices from the likes of Apple, Roku, and others.

By Peter Suciu

FORTUNE -- It used to be that families would gather around the living room TV during prime time to watch their favorite shows together. Even as the living room set has gotten bigger, the audience in front of it continues to shrink. Moreover families aren't watching together MORE

Last chance to buy Apple before it goes ex-dividend

Shares purchased before the markets close Wednesday May 8 can collect $3.05 apiece.

FORTUNE -- Apple (AAPL) announced April 23 that it was increasing its stock repurchase plan five-fold and raising its annual dividend 15%.

The first dividend pay date under the new formula is May 16 for shares on record as of May 13. Which means the stock goes ex-dividend on May 9.

All that is a long, complicated and unnecessarily obscure MORE

Katy Huberty is back from China with Apple news

Morgan Stanley's chief Apple watcher was visiting Hong Kong and Taiwan.

FORTUNE -- In a note to clients Wednesday, Morgan Stanley's Katy Huberty, just back from China, reports on "feedback" from Asian carriers and suppliers that she views as positive for Apple (AAPL).

She makes several points: (I quote)

After a slow start, iPhone 5 is now on track to meet carrier volume expectations.
iPhone 4 price cuts could stimulate incremental demand near-term.
Carriers see MORE

Brief of the day: Apple on Google as a 'friend of the court'

Apple to Google: If you've got something to say about Samsung, join the damned suit.

FORTUNE -- Following its $1.05 billion patent infringement victory last summer, Apple (AAPL) appealed the district court judge's decision not to ban the sale of the Samsung devices that the jury determined had infringed multiple Apple patents.

Google (GOOG) and several other companies now want to file an amicus curiae ("friend of the court") brief to the MORE

Samsung-Apple patent war: The Journal misses the point

Note to editor: Not all patents are the same.

FORTUNE -- Under the headline Samsung-Apple Patent Fight: Is It Worth It?, Wednesday's Wall Street Journal takes a long look at three years of smartphone litigation and concludes that the answer is no.

"A string of rulings in big cases has left litigants with little to show for all the trouble," writes the Journal's Ashby Jones in the "nut" paragraph that states the MORE

Apple had 57% of mobile profits in Q1, Samsung 43%

This quarter, according to Canaccord Genuity, their positions may be reversed.

FORTUNE -- To simplify the chart at right -- drawn from data sent to clients Tuesday by Canaccord Genuity's T. Michael Walkley -- I've left out Nokia (NOK), Research in Motion (BBRY), Motorola (GOOG), Sony (SNE), LG and HTC.

That's because between them, Apple (AAPL) and Samsung shared virtually all the profits made selling mobile phones -- smart and not-so-smart -- over MORE

Transcript: What David Einhorn told his shareholders about Apple

The hedge-fund billionaire who sued Apple in February was buying shares again in March.

FORTUNE -- Greenlight Capital's David Einhorn, the poker-playing hedge fund manager who made his billions shorting Lehman Bros. and Allied Capital, never really fell out of love with Apple (AAPL). He sued the company last February not because he had lost faith, but because he wanted Apple management to increase the value of his million or so MORE

Watch MarketWatch shift its Apple colors from red to green

Editorial sentiment is changing, but it may take some time to turn the ship around.

FORTUNE -- Although it was never in quite the same boat as The Motley Fool, Insider Monkey or ValueWalk, there's been a predictable cast to the Apple (AAPL) coverage on the Wall Street Journal's MarketWatch site these last few months. Typical headlines:

A New York Times anti-Apple article swallows its own premise

Once again, the paper twists itself into a pretzel to find the Apple-is-doomed angle.

FORTUNE -- Readers who remember the New York Times' 2012 investigation of conditions in the Chinese factories that build iPads and iPhones for Apple (AAPL) -- the article that described Apple as "reprehensible" and "morally repugnant" -- may be surprised if they open Tuesday's business section and read this lead paragraph:

"Terry Gou did almost everything that Apple could ask MORE

Apple cracks the Fortune 10

Jumped to No. 6 from No. 17 on Fortune's annual list of the largest U.S. companies.

FORTUNE -- On its way to the No. 6 spot in this year's Fortune 500, Apple (AAPL) passed two banks (J.P. Morgan and Bank of America), two car manufacturers (Ford and GM), two carriers (AT&T and Verizon), one PC maker (Hewlett-Packard), one petrochemical company (Valero), one health-care giant (McKesson), one mortgage re-seller (Fannie Mae) and Thomas Edison's MORE