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The iPad event by the numbers
A round-up of Apple's latest milestones
No company is better at telling its story with nice round numbers than Apple (AAPL). Here, in the order they arrived, are the numbers it trotted out at Wednesday's iPad event:
362 Apple Stores
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 7, 2012 3:17 PM ET
110 million customers in Q4
315 million iOS devices sold
62 million in Q4 alone
25 billion iOS apps downloaded
100+ million iCloud customers
15.4 million iPads sold in Q4
200,000+ apps designed for iPad
100+ competing tablets came to MORE -
Personal tech gets down to business
After seeing executives jury-rig consumer gadgets and software for work, companies like Google and Apple are suiting up for success in the office.
By Richard Nieva, contributor
FORTUNE -- In recent years employees have been bringing their personal smartphones and tablets to work and tricking out their gadgets (sometimes without the tech department's okay) with productivity-enhancing apps and software. Now, instead of standing by as savvy individuals co-opt their technology for the MORE
Dec 28, 2011 5:00 AM ET -
Piper Jaffray: Android app revenue is 7% of iPhone's
Apple to retain a 70%+ share of mobile app dollars, despite Android's 50%+ market share
Using data from Apple's public announcements and AndroLib (an Android app discovery tool), Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster has analyzed the mobile app market and determined that:
Since its inception, Google's (GOOG) Android Market Place has generated about 7% of the gross revenue of Apple's App Store.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 21, 2011 11:43 AM ET
Apple (AAPL) has about 85% to 90% market share of the total MOREPosted in: Android, Android Market, AndroLib, App Store, Apple, apps, Gene Munster, Google, iPhone, Mobile, Piper Jaffray -
Tablets storm the corner office
For Edmunds.com and its President, Avi Steinlauf, the Apple iPad is transforming the workplace.
By Alex Konrad, reporter
FORTUNE -- Avi Steinlauf doesn't sleep with his iPad, but otherwise the Apple (AAPL) tablet is almost always by his side. Like a growing number of senior executives, Steinlauf, president of car-guide publisher Edmunds.com, views his iPad as a crucial business tool -- and not just for sending e-mail, reading documents, or looking up information MORE
Oct 13, 2011 5:00 AM ET -
What Apple's like in bed
A new sleep-tracking app for the iPhone from Lark offers a peek into life inside a retailing partnership with Apple.
FORTUNE -- Julia Hu got into bed with Apple (AAPL) so she could sell gadgets that get people out of bed. Hu is the CEO of Lark, a startup making a wristband that tracks your sleep until the moment it interrupts it. That's when it starts vibrating, a silent alarm that MORE
Chadwick Matlin - Jul 6, 2011 1:11 PM ET -
Your company's own app store
Private "storefronts" let corporations outfit employees with homegrown business apps.
FORTUNE -- Want to develop a small-molecule-based drug? There's an app for that. But you won't find it in Apple's App Store -- it's available only through a private storefront run by biotech giant Genentech.
The company, based in South San Francisco, Calif., has created some 20 mobile apps for its employees -- and a dozen more are in the works. In MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Jun 28, 2011 5:00 AM ETPosted in: App Store, Apple, apps, corporate apps, GE, Genentech, IBM, iOS, Medtronic, private apps, Standard Chartered -
Google responds to Microsoft's FISMA certification accusations
Earlier this morning Microsoft accused Google of false advertising. Google responds.
This morning, David Howard, Corporate Vice President & Deputy General Counsel at Microsoft (MSFT) took the opportunity to look at unsealed documents to point out something, that if true or genuine, would seem to be a pretty big deal.
Last Friday afternoon, I learned that a batch of court documents had been unsealed and had revealed one particularly striking development: the United States MORE
Seth Weintraub - Apr 11, 2011 5:32 PM ET -
Google Docs get discussions and email integration
The collaborative abilities of Google's office products keep getting more robust.
In a Blog post today, Google (GOOG) announced that Docs will now have fullly integrated discussions ability.
Today, we're updating comments in Google Docs to facilitate rapid and seamless discussions and integrate with email in an intuitive way. Since there are a number of significant improvements, this update is only available for newly created documents for now.
Think of it as annotations on steroids. MORE
Seth Weintraub - Mar 16, 2011 12:27 PM ET -
Google's Admob turns to Adsense
Keeping it all in the Google ad family...
Today, Google (GOOG) is sending some of its Admob mobile app developers some good news. The search giant will start placing Adsense ads inside of apps that use Google's Admob advertising. That means fill rate will skyrocket toward 100% and developers will get paid much more, across the board.
The move may also pull some of Apple's (AAPL) iAds user-developers away, especially those who MORE
Seth Weintraub - Mar 11, 2011 3:57 PM ET -
Gmail outage passes 24 hours for some (updated)
A small percentage of people have been without their Gmail accounts since Sunday.
Imagine if you lost your entire email inbox, sent box, folders –everything.
A small number of Gmail users logged into their accounts over the weekend to find just that.
Immediately, Google (GOOG) support forums started filling up and Google's App Status dashboard issued the ominous warning, "We're investigating reports of an issue with Google Mail. We will provide more information MORE
Seth Weintraub - Feb 28, 2011 1:01 PM ET
