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Report: Apple 'clicking on all cylinders'

A Barclays analyst leaves a meeting with top executives more bullish than ever

You wouldn't know it from Apple's (AAPL) share price -- which at one point Friday morning was down another $20, having closed Thursday off nearly $10 (see here) -- but there's nothing wrong with the company that some well-crafted Wall Street reform couldn't cure.

Analysts who pay attention to Apple's fundamentals have been issuing one positive note after another. MORE

AdAge: Apple's iAd is 'double dipping'

Madison Avenue casts a wary eye on Steve Jobs' new iPhone/iPad advertising platform

Most mobile ad networks charge either a set rate per 1,000 impressions -- the so-called CPM. Or they charge a rate for each time a customer clicks on an ad -- the CPC.

Apple's (AAPL) new iAd advertising platform, according to a report in Monday's AdvertisingAge, is charging for both. Marketers who want to reach iPhone, iPad and iPod MORE

10 Apple vs. Google battles to watch for

Silicon Alley Insider peers into the future and sees nothing but conflict

Google and Apple have already butted heads, first in mobile phones with Google's (GOOG) release of the Nexus One, then in online advertising with Apple's (AAPL) announcement of the iAd platform.

But those conflicts are just a prelude to bigger brawls to come, says Silicon Alley Insider's Jay Yarow. In a slideshow posted Wednesday, he ticks off what he sees MORE

Steve Jobs missed his calling

Forget Silicon Valley. He would have killed on Madison Avenue.

"I had forgotten," a colleague said recently, after an off-the-record meeting with Apple's (AAPL) CEO, "what an interesting and dedicated student Steve Jobs is of other people's businesses."

Take, for example, the advertising business.

If you are in the ad trade, or care about it, or just want to see a first-rate sales pitch, you could find worse ways to spend 15 minutes MORE

Techmate: Apple's new iPhone OS is ad friendly

In this episode of Techmate, Jon explains why Apple's (AAPL) new iPhone 4.0 operating system, with its beefed up advertising features, is a direct attack on Google (GOOG).

In Apple news: iPad, iAd and iPhone 4.0

Three things to watch for this week from Steve Jobs and company

While it has the media's attention -- having dazzled it last week with the launch of the iPad -- Apple (AAPL) may have a few more tricks up its sleeve in the days ahead.

iPhone 4.0: Apple has summoned the press to its Cupertino campus Thursday, April 8 for a "sneak peek of the next generation of iPhone OS software." MORE