Wall Street Journal

WSJ: 8 of 10 of 2011's most-read stories were about Apple

Only the Paul Allen-Bill Gates feud and Borders' liquidation prevented a clean sweep 

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 nasty things MORE

Steve Jobs' disruptive best-of-television service, revisited

As rumors of a "real" Apple TV heat up, ideas that could upend the industry resurface

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 to these sources, MORE

Is Apple's answer to TV's big problem hiding in plain sight?

All this talk about an Apple-branded TV set may be missing the point

Reading between the lines of the Wall Street Journal's story Monday about Apple's "assault" on the TV business, you can almost hear the desperation of the media executives who asked Apple (AAPL) to brief them on exactly what the wizards of Cupertino are up to.

These media executive -- which included, presumably, Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corp. (NWS) owns MORE

Video: Meet the Apple press

Gruber, Mossberg, Om and more. Walking the media line at the iPhone 4S event

This 53-second YouTube video is what you might call media inside baseball.

It was shot outside Apple's (AAPL) Town Hall auditorium while the invited press cooled their heels in advance of Tuesday's iPhone 4S event.

That's the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg with the white Van Dyke at the 28-second mark. Daring Fireball's John Gruber is the tall guy in dark MORE

Apple vs. Samsung: Inside the Australian patent hearings

Blow-by-blow coverage in English and Korean courtesy of the Wall Street Journal

The headlines Friday morning were that Samsung had offered Apple (AAPL) a deal that would resolve the patent dispute that has prevented the Korean company from selling its Galaxy 10.1 tablet in Australia.

The excellent courtroom reporting that the Wall Street Journal's David Fickling and Ross Kelly have been providing for the past two days suggest that a deal is MORE

Sprint soars 10.12% on report that it's getting the iPhone

According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple will add a third U.S. carrier in mid-October

"Sprint Nextel Corp. will begin selling the iPhone 5 in mid-October, people familiar with the matter said, closing a huge hole in the No. 3 U.S. carrier's lineup and giving Apple Inc. another channel for selling its popular phone."

So begins the report in the Wall Street Journal -- Apple's (AAPL) current favorite backchannel outlet for releasing unofficial product news -- that MORE

D.A. disagrees with Steve Jobs about who's a journalist

Declines to bring charges against Gizmodo's Jason Chen in stolen iPhone case

From AppleInsider's transcript of an interview with Apple's (AAPL) Steve Jobs at All Things Digital's 2010 D8 conference:

Mossberg brought up the issue of Apple's missing prototype iPhone and asked Jobs about the police seizure of computers and other equipment belonging to the Gizmodo editor who broke the story, saying the police "go and don't issue a search warrant and […] they grab this MORE

Today in Tech: Should Microsoft sell Bing?

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* With just a 27% share of the U.S. search market, Reuters argues Microsoft should find a buyer for online search engine Bing. (Reuters via The New York Times)

* Google is revising its approach towards Google + users who for one reason or another don't use their full, real names MORE

What's going on with the Wall Street Journal and Apple?

The Rupert Murdoch-owned paper ran a couple of very odd stories this week

There's not much doubt, Rupert Murdoch declared on his Fox News cable network last year, that Steve Jobs is the best chief executive in the U.S.

"He's got such incredible focus," he told an interviewer. "He's got such power inspiring the people around him who work for him. And, you know, it's -- it's a highly, highly disciplined company... MORE

Don't be fooled by calls for Apple to declare a dividend

Apple's $76 billion cash stockpile is burning a hole in Wall Street's pockets

It happens every quarter. Apple (AAPL) reports blowout sales and earnings. Its holdings in cash and marketable securities swell by billions of dollars -- by $10.7 billion, to be specific, in the past 90 days. And analysts come out of the woodwork to demand that the company spend some of those billions buying back shares or issuing dividends MORE