It is still unclear what kind of deal Apple is trying to put together.
Of those 6, 000 officers, 3, 900 will also receive an iPad, creating the most lucrative deal Apple has announced since Home Depot announced that it planned to dump BlackBerry for the iPhone.
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Apple has reportedly told publishers that if they do a deal with Apple, they have to use the same terms with other e-book distributers.
Verizon has hinted that it passed on the deal because Apple's terms were too steep.
It was a deal where Apple was going to have a very different rev share approach.
That timeline could be driven, in part, by the prospects of a deal with Apple, Yeung argues.
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China Mobile already has 7.44 million iPhones on its network, despite it not having a deal with Apple.
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We believe these same companies are negotiating some sort of deal with Apple.
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Perseus Books, the largest independent publisher, signed a deal with Apple last week.
My question: does this deal with Apple mean that Facebook is less likely to cut its own digital e-commerce content deals?
Of the four major U.S. wireless carriers, only T-Mobile USA has yet to cut a deal with Apple to sell the iPhone.
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Regardless of current or future sales, Chowdhry stands by his belief that the jury verdict will lead to a cross-licensing deal between Apple and Samsung.
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The story quotes CASH Asset Management director Patrick Yiu noting that China Unicom has seen no particular boost to earnings after signing a three-year deal with Apple in 2009.
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For one, Dish Network or DirecTV might do a deal with Apple to offer consumers who normally default to their local cable company another reason to give them a try.
If Clearwire can upgrade its network form WiMax to TDD LTE (85% similar technology) as scheduled and China Mobile (650 million Subs) finalizes a deal with Apple while completing their TDD LTE network, then Sprint will have a game changing world iPhone capable of roaming from FDD to TDD LTE.
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You may not remember, but the first deal done with Apple was a radically different business deal than where we are today.
Even Apple could do a deal with RIM for Apple to instantly establish a kingdom in Business and Govt enterprise.
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Hargreaves said this new deal would lift Apple to about 90 million post-paid subscribers throughout the world.
Now he has won a breathing space, with the Apple deal promising a slight lift in Nokia's dismal financial performance.
The uncertainty generated by the deal may help Apple to accelerate its share of the eReader market and create a positive sentiment towards its stock.
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The crux of which is, how many pennies on the dollar of those loans are the banks going to get back out of an Apple deal with Proview?
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If Apple succumbs to another new comer anytime in the next four years, and none of these other phones have held hegemony much longer than that, this take or pay Apple deal will be a very bad one for Sprint.
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Several times, deals were nearly announced with Apple by China Mobile, but seemingly at the last moment, the deal fell through and Apple walked away.
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Apple must deal with the loss of the guy who single-handedly made it the most valuable company in the world.
To counter these threats, a deal between Motorola and Apple is expected to spawn phones with iTunes included in a couple of months.
They have to do it to gain more leverage over the display supply chain , to allow Apple to deal with price pressures in the smartphone and tablet markets without sacrificing profit margins.
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Despite the fierce competition, both on the high street and in the courts, Samsung makes a great deal of money from Apple, supplying parts for many of its devices, including screens for its smartphones and tablets.
China Mobile is in need of a flagship smartphone that it can actively market in order to promote its 3G network, an area where it has lagged its competitors. (see China Mobile Needs To Step Up As 3G Growth Slows) It is pursuing an Apple iPhone deal, but government concerns over the high subsidies associated with the iPhone is a big deterrent.
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