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What Apple’s Billions Can Accomplish: An Infographic

What Apple’s Billions Can Accomplish: An Infographic

Apple is one of the most profitable, most valuable and most rapidly progressing companies around the world. It is bringing back huge profits year after year ever since Steve Jobs brought the ‘i’ revolution. We now know that Apple’s total reserves stand at $400 billion right now and this is only rapidly increasing. So what can $400 billion do? For a start, this amount of money can pay the total debt of eight European countries. If converted into dollar bills and spread across US, these notes alone would cover 42% of US. Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO ranked in about $378 million last year, which now makes him the highest-paid CEO.

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Steve Jobs Emailed Google To Stop Poaching Apple Workers

Steve Jobs Emailed Google To Stop Poaching Apple Workers

Worker poaching is a norm in nearly every field around the globe. And as a matter of fact, it is very legal because it keeps the competition high and makes companies compensate workers with salaries they deserve. However, a suit has been filed against Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe, Intuit and Pixar. This has been filed by five engineers who accuse these companies of clandestine compromises over not poaching each other’s workers. Now, an email has surfaced during the proceedings of this suit which is from Steve Jobs to Google’s former CEO asking to stop poaching Apple’s workers.

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Apple Beats Samsung In Q4 2011 Smartphone Sales

Apple Beats Samsung In Q4 2011 Smartphone Sales

Apple and Samsung are two of the largest smartphone manufacturers in the world. Apple prizes it’s iPhone while Samsung has pretty much succeeded with it’s Android smartphones in the Samsung S series. Last year, Samsung momentarily overtook Apple in smartphone sales but with the results of the final quarter out, Apple is back in the game and leading. Samsung’s quarterly reports tell that it sold 36.5 million smartphones in Q4 whereas Apple has sold about 37 million, clearly on the first position, again.

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Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, Responds To Allegations Against Apple

Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, Responds To Allegations Against Apple

Apple has been accused recently of ignoring the abysmal condition of the labourers at the factories that produce Apple components at China and Taiwan. About to a New York Times article published recently, some sources have claimed that Apple has been in full knowledge of these things and yet have chose to ignore them. And now, we have an official response from Apple. Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, has categorically rejected these claims and has stated that Apple is working hard to bring all off-shore companies under the rules and regulations which Apple enacts for all Apple workers.

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Apple Files Patent For Universal Remote Concept

Apple Files Patent For Universal Remote Concept

Apple has been filing patents for a number of very innovative concepts. Access of these patents is possible only when US Patents office makes them public. One such patent that has been made public now is ‘Apparatus And Method To Facilitate Universal Remote Control.’ As the name suggests, the patent is about developing a universal remote control that can automatically detect the devices present within it’s range and then can wirelessly get a user interface from these devices to display on a touch-screen.

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Chinese Demand For iPhone 4S Is Extra-ordinary, Says Apple CEO

Chinese Demand For iPhone 4S Is Extra-ordinary, Says Apple CEO

Apple recently announced it’s quarterly report and outdid all estimates in it’s total profits. However, Apple hadn’t launched iPhone 4S in China last quarter or we could have seen a huge spike in the present figures. Now as Apple gears up the sales of iPhone 4S in China, launched there only in January this year, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook says that the demand that is totally off-the-charts! He says that iPhone 4S sales are doing an excellent business there. This means a huge quarterly profit for Apple this year who plans to partner with China Telecom, another major Chinese carrier, in the coming days.

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Apple Earnings (AAPL): Apple Reports A Monster Quarter, Record Profits Due To Blockbuster iPhone Sales

Apple Earnings (AAPL): Apple Reports A Monster Quarter, Record Profits Due To Blockbuster iPhone Sales

Analysts had been waiting for Apple to release it’s quarterly report very eagerly. This was because Apple did an incredibly good business in the last quarter of 2011 and analysts have expecting some huge number. The estimates by everyone was very high. As it turns out, when Apple released the report now, it reported profits which were much more than what anyone expected! Apple made a huge $13.87 billion in profits against the expected figure of $10.08 billion. And overall sales peaked at $46.33 billion against the expected $39.04 billion.

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Gartner: Apple Becomes The Top Buyer Of Semiconductors Worldwide

Gartner: Apple Becomes The Top Buyer Of Semiconductors Worldwide

Apple has seen a major surge in it’s growth even since the inception of iPhone and iPad series. Millions of units have been shipped and millions more are expected to ship out in the coming days. Alongside, Apple’s MacBook series is also doing a very good job on the sales. All this has made Apple the largest buyer of semiconductors worldwide, spending about $17 billion on them in 2011. Second in the list is Samsung followed by HP, Dell, Nokia and Sony respectively. It’s surprising to note that Apple manufactures limited products while Samsung deals with a greater range of electronics – yet Apple has taken the lead on this front too.

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