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The China Daily reports (via ZDNet) that Apple has been ordered to pay $118,000 to three Chinese writers for a breach of copyright when it sold their books online without their permission. (more…)

According to Glassdoor, a website that allows employees of various corporations to rate how they think their management is doing while remaining anonymous, Apple employees seem to love their CEO Tim Cook. The site shared some information with TUAW, revealing that current approval rating for Tim Cook sits at 93% among employees leaving reviews on Glassdoor. Cook has never...

After reporting its amazing 2013 Q2 results and adding another $9.5 billion net profit to its already huge cash pile, Apple officially announced that its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) will take place at Moscone West in San Francisco on June 10-14, 2013. (more…)

Google has become the winner in a bidding war for Wavii, a natural language processing startup. The search giant agreed to pay $30 million (seems like a number preferred my startup owners -- see Summly), TechCrunch reports. (more…)

While we are waiting for Apple's quarterly earnings report, Wall Street analysts are preparing themselves and investors for the worst-case scenario: Apple will report the first year-over-year quarterly earnings decline in a decade. (more…)

Apple customers purchasing movies, TV episodes, Season Pass and Music box set using iTunes 11, iOS 6 or later can opt to download later as of Friday, which is handy in the case of large video files, Macworld reports. (more…)

Steve Jobs, the late co-founder and CEO of Apple, was known for being a very difficult person to work with, due to his highly demanding, exacting and at times irrational behaviour. Though it was part of his charm and therefore, majority of his employees loved him. Erin Caton, being an exception, who worked on MobileMe service, however believes that...

Apple's quarterly profit, which is expected to fall for the first time in ten years, is likely hurt by slower growth in iPhone sales as well as newer products having lower profit margins, according to Bloomberg. The report notes that 14 analysts have reduced their estimates for Apple's stock (AAPL) in the last one month, which has put...

Why did Apple hire two of AMD’s GPU CTOs, Raja Koduri and Bob Drebin, one after another back in 2009? Well, all you need to do is consider the impact of the work of these people. For Steve Jobs it was important to know that he has the best guys in the business. (more…)

Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple with Steve Jobs, has said that Apple’s current share price may be “disappointing” but he's confident that the Cupertino giant will come out with products which would “surprise and shock us all” and the company's stock price will eventually bounce back. Having previously broken the $700 barrier, Apple stock (AAPL) dipped below the $400 mark a couple...

The American Civil Liberties Union appealed to Wired yesterday to express their concern over how long Siri, Apple's voice-controlled digital assistant, remembers what you tell or ask her. From their perspective, Siri's Privacy Agreement is vague, as there is no clear information on when data is deleted – for instance when you turn Siri off,...

2013 marks the 10th year TIME has compiled the 100 most influential people in the world. But this year the list contains Apple's head of industrial design Jonathan Ive, alongside 99 other influencers, such as Barack Obama or Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo!. Each influencer is accompanied by several paragraphs to emphasize why the person...