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Apple Finally Sells its 50 Billionth App
Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 9:07am | 384Read More...Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has updated its website, Apple.com, to announce that the 50 billionth app has finally been downloaded. The Cupertino, California-based tech giant unveiled its new app countdown -- and a $10,000 App Store giveaway -- on May 3. At the time, 49.2 billion apps had been downloaded....
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Apple's 50 Billionth App Download Could be Worth $100,000
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 - 3:33pm | 506Read More...Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is giving away $10,000 to the lucky man or woman who downloads the 50 billionth app within the App Store. Hike, an instant messaging app for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) and an obscure Nokia (NYSE: NOK) format, has decided to raise the stakes a bit...
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You Could Win $10,000 for Helping Apple Reach 50 Billion App Downloads
Friday, May 3, 2013 - 11:14am | 678Read More...Nearly 50 billion apps have been downloaded worldwide. To celebrate, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is giving away a $10,000 App Store gift card. As of this writing, the counter stands at more than 49.2 billion downloads, indicating that it could only be a matter of days -- or perhaps only a few hours --...
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Amazon Could Relinquish Key Trademark to Apple
Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 8:51am | 515Read More...Fearing that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will gain legal control of the term "app store," Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has filed a request to dismiss the claim that it had falsely advertised its service to developers. According to Reuters, Apple alleges that Amazon misused the name of its marketplace, "Amazon...
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Should Apple Stop AT&T's Price Hike?
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 9:08am | 940Read More...The nation's largest cellular carrier has a new pricing model in the works, and it's got “milk the customer” written all over it. According to the Wall Street Journal, AT&T (NYSE: T) is exploring the idea of charging app makers for the data consumers use. App makers would reportedly be given...
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Is Your iPhone a New Therapist or Antidepressant?
Monday, February 13, 2012 - 11:30am | 824Read More...Stop popping pills and pick up an iPhone instead. That's the message being sent by the researchers behind Mobilyze, a new iPhone app designed to help users overcome depression. According to Popular Science, the app uses a variety of data – such as your location, social activity and physical...
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Will Apple Overcharge for Textbooks?
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 12:42pm | 983Read More...Apple may be on the cusp of a digital textbook revolution. But will it come at the expense of our wallets? Despite the countless pages of speculation this week – including a report in which one analyst states that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) could obtain as much as 95% of the digital textbook market – no...
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Android Market Tops 10 Billion App Downloads, Adds 1 Billion Every Month
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 4:33pm | 351Read More...Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) mobile OS is quickly encroaching on Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) territory. According to the search engine giant's official blog (via TechCrunch), the Android Market has exceeded 10 billion app downloads. Better still, the company's growth rate has soared to one billion app...
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Marc Gardner on Pay Anywhere, a "Very Elegantly Simple Payment Solution"
Friday, September 23, 2011 - 3:31pm | 318Read More...The founder and President of North American Bancard talks growth, success, new hires and more. Marc Gardner is an innovator. He built a startup before startups were cool. He did so way back in 1992. And through his company, he's leading the charge with a mobile payment solution that ranks higher...
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HTML5 Could Kill the App Store By 2015
Monday, September 12, 2011 - 12:15pm | 381Read More...Was this Apple's plan all along? Today, the Mac and iPhone maker hates compact discs and DVDs. The company is so determined to get us off traditional software that it is practically forcing consumers to buy Mac OS X Lion online. Tomorrow, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is going to hate downloads. This is...
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Twitter Reaches 100 Million Active Users, 40 Percent Silent
Thursday, September 8, 2011 - 3:37pm | 140Read More...Twitter CEO Dick Costolo stated that the social networking site now has 100 million active users, which he defines as users who log into to the site at least once per month. Fifty million of these active users log into the site every day. Yet only 60 percent of active users tweet at least once per...
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Twitter Mobile Designer Unimpressed With Facebook's "New" App
Thursday, September 8, 2011 - 3:08pm | 135Read More...Facebook launched the latest iteration (version 3.5) of its iOS app Wednesday only to encounter criticism from social networking's second most popular site – Twitter. Facebook's new status and photo update interface is not as new as expected by the social networking community. The interface...
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TechCrunch Leaks Turntable.fm iPhone App
Thursday, September 8, 2011 - 2:09pm | 199Read More...According to TechCrunch, music social network Turntable.fm is expected to go mobile next week with its own Apple iOS app. Turntable.fm allows its users to upload songs and play music from the site's database in virtual rooms where they act as DJs. Only five DJs can spin in a room, but other users...
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Apple's Pricey Message to Consumers: Don't You Dare Buy Lion at Retail
Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 11:15am | 801Read More...Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has a new plan to push consumers to the App Store: charge too much for the alternative. The long-awaited Mac OS X Lion arrived yesterday, and if a Global Equities Research report is accurate, the snazzy upgrade has already been sold to more than 650,000 Mac users. That's an...
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New Mac Mini, MacBook Air and OS X Lion Now Available, But Do They Impress?
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - 9:24am | 307Read More...Were Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) long-awaited upgrades worth the wait? If you've been thinking about getting a MacBook Air, today's reboot might have what it takes to push you over the edge. In essence, the new machine isn't all that different from the model that debuted last fall. But with Core i5...
