Videos: Customers queue for the new iPad around the world

• Richard Branson has deep-sea ambitions, launches Virgin Oceanic

  The intrepid Branson launches Virgin Oceanic, a quest to explore the deepest parts of the aquatic world.

  FORTUNE -- Yesterday at the Brainstorm GREEN conference in Laguna Niguel, Calif., Richard Branson sat down with Fortune Managing Editor Andy Serwer for a conversation where he unveiled his latest venture, Virgin Oceanic, through which he will explore the deepest underwater areas of the world.

  "Virgin Oceanic will expand the reach of human exploration on our planet. MORE

  Paul Smalera - Apr 5, 2011 2:58 PM ET
  Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Al Gore, Carbon War Room, climate change, environment, Inconvenient Truth, London, Richard Branson, United States, Virgin Green Fund, Virgin Group

• iPad 2: Out of stock by Saturday

  A launch perfectly timed to coincide with the end of Apple's second fiscal quarter

  Reports are still drifting in, but it seems likely that most of the 25 countries where Apple (AAPL) launched the iPad 2 on Friday had run out of product by Saturday afternoon.

  Pocket-lint reported Saturday that the two flagship Apple Stores in London -- Regent Street and Covent Garden -- were completely out of stock and wouldn't be MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 27, 2011 7:36 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Canada, France, iPad, iPad 2, Launch, London, Quarterly earnings, Tablets, U.K.

• Apple's biggest store opens Saturday

  Its 300th retail outlet, in London's Covent Garden, is its most ambitious yet

  Londoners were already starting to queue up Friday outside Apple's (AAPL) newest retail outlet -- in Covent Garden -- its fourth in the city and its 300th worldwide. The grand opening is set for Saturday at 10 a.m. GMT.

  This is an Apple Store for the record books. Largest and most expensive. Longest Genius Bar. Biggest staff (300 employees). MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 6, 2010 8:15 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Apple Store, Covent Garden, London

• iPad madness in Munich

  Plus videos from the launch in Frankfurt, Milan, Tokyo, Paris, Sydney, London and Zurich

  Apple's (AAPL) international fan base greeted the iPad in nine countries Friday morning with the usual hoopla -- albeit in different accents and with various degrees of self control. The Germans, for some reason, seem to have the most fun at these events.

  Munich:

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 28, 2010 6:21 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Frankfurt, iPad, London, Munich, Paris, Rome, Stephen Fry, Tokyo, Zurich

• iPad camp outs hit Tokyo, Sydney, London

  Customers camped out overnight in cities around the world to buy Apple's tablet computer

  [UPDATE: About 1,200 customers had lined up outside Apple's flagship store in Tokyo's Ginza district when the doors finally opened at 8 a.m., according to Reuters.]

  Rahul Koduri, 22, had been sitting in front of an Apple Store in Sydney, Australia, since 2 a.m. Thursday.

  In Tokyo, Takechiyo Yamanaka planted his folding camp chair outside Apple's Ginza store on MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 27, 2010 3:36 PM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Australia, iPad, London, Sydney, Tokyo

• Video: Apple's PR machinery caught on tape (updated)

  Managing public opinion is an important factor in the success of any big consumer electronics enterprise, and Apple (AAPL) does it better than most -- largely by staying out of the picture and letting Steve Jobs speak for the company.

  But every once and a while the machinery with which Apple keeps a firm grip on the media shows through, and this is one of those occasions.

  Under the heading Great Moments MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 17, 2007 11:26 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Apple PR, iPhone, iTunes, London, Phil Schiller, Steve Jobs