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More iOS purchases over Christmas than on Android

Before we ring out 2013, we probably want to slip in that Apple did extremely well against Android over the holiday season. Regarding apps, it appears that the AppStore did quite a bit of business around Christmas as compared to Android. IBM’s latest Digital Analytics Benchmark Report found that purchases made from iOS devices accounted for […]

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Tim Cook takes self-inflicted pay cut

I remember the days of Gil Amelio (sorry to single you out Gil) and other CEOs of Apple who basically ‘took the money and ran’. In those days, the “golden parachute” was the norm for essentially kicking out CEOs who weren’t helping the company. Definitely a weird practice. Then Steve Jobs came back and famously […]

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Apple releases Q4 2013 numbers, shows $7.5 billion profit, but relatively flat year-over-year sales

A US$7.5 billion quarter is nothing to sneeze at, but the sales were a bit flat compared to a year ago. Per Macworld, Apple wrapped up its 2013 fiscal year Monday with a US$7.5 billion profit on US$37.5 billion in revenue, reporting accelerating growth buttressed by strong iPhone sales and growth in the Chinese market. […]

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AOL to discontinue iCloud account support for its Alto webmail service come December 2nd

If you weren’t enchanted with AOL before, then this won’t help win you over. According to 9to5Mac, AOL has informed applicable users that it will be dropping support for accessing email from Apple’s iCloud service from its recently launched Alto webmail client. Alto is a web-based mail client that intelligently sorts and integrates email from […]

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Apple to announce Q4 2013 earnings on October 28th

The financial results are coming. Per AppleInsider, Apple on Monday announced that it will release its fourth fiscal quarter results immediately following the close of the stock market on October 28. The results, which cover the company’s operations from July through September, will include the first full week of sales for the company’s sales record-breaking […]