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Bob Iger, Chairman and chief executive of The Walt Disney Company, has told Bloomberg BusinessWeek that after becoming a Disney board member and the company’s largest shareholder, Steve Jobs would sometimes call him to say his movies “sucked”, via Business Insider. The transaction gave Disney a new source of hit movies. Jobs also became a Disney board member and its...

Hot on the heels of Apple's meeting with Beats to talk about streaming music services, the New York Post claims record labels have rejected the terms proposed by the Cupertino company. (more…)

A London court has invalidated Samsung's assertion that some Apple products infringe on its patents, granting the Cupertino giant yet another patent win against its arch rival, ZDNet reports. The Judge ruled that Apple's products do not infringe Samsung's patents around the ability to send and receive information from a device over a 3G network. Judge...

Intel's move to make chips designed by chipmaker Altera spurred talks about a possible Apple deal, which could pave Intel's road into the mobile arena, Reuters suggests. (more…)

Apple this morning updated its Supplier Responsibility page to update how the company has been successful in tracking excessive work hours throughout its supply chain, which their Supplier Code of Conduct limits work weeks to 60 hours "except in unusual circumstances", with voluntary overtime. The company now tracks over 1 million employees as of January...

Apple grabbed the No. 1 US smartphone manufacturer position with 37.8% during the three-month average period ending January 2013, while Android maintained its lead as the No. 1 smartphone platform with 52.3% platform market share, comScore's recent report reveals. (more…)

Fortune is reporting that Barclays and Citi have both lowered their price targets for Apple's stock (AAPL), while Merrill Lynch is sticking with its $570 price target. However, Merill has found some "worrisome trends" while searching on Google Trends, which tracks the frequency of search terms. After meeting with two senior VPs at Apple, Phil Schiller and Peter Oppenheimer, Barclay's...

Apple attorney Ashlie Beringer has told U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul S. Grewal at a hearing in San Jose, California today that company's failure to produce e-mails from Steve Jobs and other senior executives in violation of a court order in a privacy lawsuit was a “mistake”, Bloomberg reports. The lawsuit regards alleged data collection by Apple on the geographical...

Turns out Apple cannot distance itself totally from Samsung when it comes to its supply chain. In the battle to raise funds, Apple's supplier Sharp has agreed to sell a 3% stake of its business for $110 million to Samsung Electronics Co., the Wall Street Journal reports. (more…)

The luxury carmaker Ferrari SpA will expand their partnership with Apple on in-car entertainment over the next few months, Chairman Luca Cordero Di Montezemolo said, as cited by Bloomberg. (more…)

Former Apple advertising lead Ken Segall has shared a bunch of other names Apple was considering for its legendary smartphone before finally calling it the "iPhone", while speaking at an event at the University of Arizona’s Department of Marketing (via 9to5Mac). He said that in addition to iPhone and iPad, Apple also considered names like “Telepod,” “Mobi,” and...

Apple was granted a patent on Thursday (via AppleInsider) in which the company imagines an electronic device that lacks any physical buttons, and is instead controlled by pressing, squeezing or otherwise deforming the device's housing to input commands. (more…)