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It looks like Apple may not be able to patent the "pinch-to-zoom" functionality after all. Today the United States Patent Office (USPTO) rejected the "US 7,844,915" patent, otherwise known as the "pinch-to-zoom" patent. This is significant because this particular patent was a key piece of the pie in Apple's $1.049 billion infringement win over Samsung...

According to Doug Freedman, an RBC Capital Markets analyst, the production of the second-generation iPad mini with Retina Display is practically on the assembly line. (more…)

A couple of days back, Citi's Apple analysts radically cut the price target for Apple Stock to $575, rating it neutral down from buy. The same team had previously given clients a 20-day one-two punch, issuing a buy at $571 just before the stock fell to $509, before eventually downgrading it to neutral. Looks like CNBC's Jim Cramer...

Credit Card Compare has published a concept for an Apple branded credit card, the iCard (via Business Insider). What's really interesting about it is not the idea of an Apple card, but is actually the mockup Apple marketing materials Credit Card Compare has made for it. With features like Passbook integration, Siri voice control, Notifications and Find...

Bloomberg reports the bankrupt Kodak finally agreed to secure its route out of bankruptcy by selling some of its digital-imaging patents for $525 million to a group led by Intellectual Ventures and RPX Corp. (more…)

The rumour mill informed the Wall Street Journal last week about the Apple television set, claiming it is in the early stages of testing. Today we got more news about the eagerly awaited Apple product, courtesy of the Taiwanese news agency Focus Taiwan (via 9to5Mac). (more…)

TIME Magazine revealed this morning its short listed candidates for their 2012 Person of the Year Award. Apple CEO Tim Cook made the final list of eight total famous candidates from business, politics and science. The reveal will take place tomorrow morning--here are the final eight: Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani activist who was shot...

A Brazilian company, IGB Electronica SA, claims it owns the iPhone trademark, and it recently announced the launch of a new line of Android phones under the IPHONE brand Macrumors reports. (more…)

Samsung, the company that went to court with Apple in the fight for mobile market share, has become the leading cellphone manufacturer on a global scale at the end of 2012, ending Nokia's 14-year reign and pushing Apple into third place. (more…)

Apple is now tracking the working hours for a million employees in its supply chain, the updated supplier responsibility page shows (Via MacRumors). This number is up from 900,000, highlighted at its previous update. (more…)

For Apple, 2007 was the year of a new, revolutionary device, the iPhone. Anybody, who watched the Steve Jobs keynote will remember the launch of the iPhone set the change for the whole mobile phone industry. And it did. (more…)

In an unexpected move, Samsung announced today that it will withdraw its patent lawsuits seeking to block Apple's iDevices in European countries, Bloomberg reports. The decision comes, in just hours after Judge Lucy Koh rejected Apple's request to block 26 Samsung products in the US. (more…)