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Philip Elmer-DeWitt Notes Change in Wall Street Journal Attitude on Apple

Cannacord Genuity: Apple and Samsung Take 100-Percent of Cellphone Industry Profits in First Quarter of 2013

Google, HTC, Red Hat and Rackspace File Friend of the Court Briefs in Apple v. Samsung v. Apple Appeal 

WSJ: Legal Battles Between Apple and Samsung Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing (So Far)

Munster Sees Vast Majority of Mobile Web Traffic Originating on iOS Devices (from Significant Minority of Top Sites)

UBS Analyst Likens State of Apple to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs (in a Good Way (Maybe))

German Court Says Apple Violates Consumer Data Protection Laws

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Barclays Raises Apple Target from $465 to $525; First Target Price Elevation of 2013

Fortune: Apple Widens Lead on Exxon Mobil as Most Valuable Publicly Traded Company

Apple Lands Atop Barron’s 500

Apple Takes Sixth Spot on Fortune 500; First Time in Top 10

Bids on Coffee with Cook Back Up to $605,000

EC Investigating Possible Abuse of Standards-Essential by Motorola Against Apple in Germany

Taiwanese University Sues Apple Over Video Compression Technology in FaceTime and QuickTime

Amazon Opens Appstore to China in Apparent Lead-Up to Kindle Hardware Sales

Acer Shelves Plans for Windows RT Tablet Until Next Version of Software at the Earliest

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comScore: iOS Gains on Android in Q1; iPhone Widens Lead on Samsung Smartphones

US Cellular to Start Sales of Apple Products (aka iPhones) Later This Year

MetroPCS Not Getting iPhone Anytime Soon Despite T-Mobile Acquisition

Business Insider: Customer Service a Key iPhone Feature

Magazine Giant Hearst Hits One-Million Digital Subscribers One Quarter Later Than Expected

Barnes and Noble Adds Access to Google Play to Color Editions of Nook  Tablets

Google: Tell Us if Google Now on iOS is Draining Battery (And We’ll Tell You You’re Wrong)

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IDC: iPad Sales Grow as Market Share Shrinks

Apple Adds 256GB and 512GB Flash Options for iMac Line

Apple Releases iPhone 5-Specific iOS 6.1.4 Update to Update Audio Profile for Speakerphone

WSJ: Apple Devices Running iOS 6 and Samsung Galaxy Smartphones Expected to Receive USDoD Security Approval Soon

T3: Less Than Half of 16GB Samsung Galaxy S4 Capacity Available to Users

Trend Micro: Over 100 Legitimate Sites Compromised in Apple ID Phishing Expedition

App Store Approaches 50-Billionth App Download 

Updated Qantas App for iOS Adds Passbook Support

Blockbuster Launches Streaming Video Rental App for iOS

McDonalds Lands Kids Promotional App in the App Store: McPlay

Rolling Stones Guitarist Keith Richards Can’t Get No Satisfaction from an iPod

Wired: Why Apple is Borrowing Billions When It Already Has Billions More

Bloomberg: iOS 7 May Or May Not Be Late

Speculative Fiction Writer Peter Misek Says Large Screen iPhone Due in June of 2014

Apple Loses State of Maine Education Contract to HP

Apple Scores Low in EFF Report on Government and User Data Protection

Amazon Kindle Update for iOS Brings Improvements for Blind and Visually Impaired Users

Path: Sort of Spamming for Friends

American Airlines: iPad as Flight Bag Saves the Backs of Pilots

Tim Cook to Open 11th Annual D: All Things Digital Conference

9 to 5 Mac: OS X 10.9 to Cater to Power Users and Borrow Some Core Functionality from iOS

9 to 5 Mac on the Rumored New Look for iOS: In a Word, Flat

9 to 5 Mac: Apple Looking to Deeply Imbed iOS in Cars

Apple Seeds Fifth OS X 10.8.4 beat to Developers

Apple Scores Highest in Latest Computer Technical Support Survey from Consumer Reports

Next Round of Apple v. Samsung v. Apple Trial 2012 Set for November

Apple and Other Tech Companies Take Possession of Kodak Patents

Shaw Wu Out at Sterne Agee

BlackBerry CEO Sees No Need for Tablets in Five-Years

Report: Apple to Deem Original iPhone Obsolete by Mid-June

KGI Analyst Predicts Lower Price for iPad mini

“Allegedly Authentic” iPhone 5S Leak Helps Boost Apple Shares

Apple Back to Being the Most Valuable Publicly Traded Company (for Now)

KGI Analyst Expects Refreshed MacBook Air Sans Retina Display at or Around WWDC

Bernstein Analyst Reiterates $600 Price Target and Outperform Rating on Apple Shares Despite iPhone Market Share Shrinkage

ISI Analyst and Donald Trump Call for Larger Screen for iPhone

SFPD Sting Poses Cops as iPhone Fences to Try to Deter iTheft

Google Now Lands on iOS as Part of App Update for Google Search

Updates to Square Register Make it More Restaurant Friendly

Apple Wins Case Against Patent Troll Golden Bridge Technology

Coffee with Cook Still Stands at $600,000

Yankee Group: iPhone Will Win Over Android-Powered Smartphones in U.S. Beginning in 2016

IDC: As Worldwide Smartphone Pie Gets Bigger, iPhone Slice Gets Smaller

Bloomberg: One-Year-Old iPhone Deal Starts Bearing Fruit for China Telecom

Apple Adds “Learn More About In-App Purchases” Section to App Store

Apple Not Changing Behavior of VPN on Demand on Previously Shipped iOS 6.1 Devices

Apple Contesting November 2012 VirnetX Verdict

KGI Securities Analyst Expects MacBook Pros with Intel Haswell Processors at or Near WWDC

Apple Promises “Week-of” WWDC Videos for Registered Apple Developers Not in Attendance

Apple Announces the Return of Developer-Focused Tech Talks for Fall of 2013

Apple Submits Minor Revisions to Spaceship Campus Plans to City of Cupertino

Apple Sends Out Mailer Updating Neighbors on Spaceship Campus Plans

HP Begins Sales of Android-Based Slate 7 for $169.99

Coffee with Cook Bid Up to $600,000 (for Charity)

WWDC 2013 Tickets: Gone in 90 Seconds

Apple Offers a Number of Developers a Second Chance at WWDC 2013 Tickets

WWDC Alternative - AltWWDC - to Run at Same Time as WWDC in San Francisco

iPad Takes Top Spot in Latest JD Power Customer Satisfaction Survey for Tablets

Sprint Sells 1.5-Million iPhones in 1Q CY2013

AT&T Activates 4.8-Million iPhones in 1Q CY2013; iPhone Accounts for 80-Percent of Smartphones Sold in 1Q

Apple Store Berlin to Open on Friday 3 May

Apple Ordered to Pay $118,000 to Three Chinese Authors for Copyright Infringement

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Apple Announces Dates for WWDC - June 10-14 at Moscone West in SF; Tickets Go On Sale Thursday 25 April at 10AM PDT

Apple Offers 150 Student Scholarships for WWDC (But You Have to Build an App to Qualify)

9 to 5 Mac: WWDC Will Likely Mark 230-Days Between Apple Keynotes

Apple R&D Spending Up 33-Percent So Far in FY2013

Apple Opens “A Decade of iTunes” Section on Store to Celebrate Its First Ten Years

NPD Group: iTunes Leader By Far in Online Video Sales and Rental Downloads

Analysts Lower Targets But Remain Positive in Wake of Apple 2Q FY2013 Earnings Call

Coffee with Cook: Current Bid for Charity Stands at $175,000

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