But it seems fairly clear that if Boxee is David and Apple is Goliath in this scenario, David is still missing a couple of stones in its arsenal.
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Wal-Mart is a Goliath of retailing, but in online video it's a David compared with Apple's iTunes.
We can joke about David Einhorn suing Apple because it has recently cost him so much money.
Icahn (Herbalife), some disappointing GDP numbers out of Europe, the continued earnings parade, and the ongoing saga of David Einhorn and Apple management.
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Greenlight Capital, a hedge fund run by Wall Street maverick David Einhorn, sued Apple over the proposal because it would remove the board's ability to issue preferred stock without shareholder authorization.
David Lerner Associates and the Apple REITs emerge victorious in this contentious and high-profile class action.
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The judge backed a lawsuit by activist shareholder David Einhorn, who wants Apple to return more cash to shareholders.
Now investors like David Einhorn would very much like Apple to distribute that cash to shareholders as dividends.
The hot topic of late has been David Einhorn and his fight against Apple to get the tech giant to raise its dividend.
There he worked on projects with Michael Jackson, Dave Brubeck, The Cure, Brian Eno, David Bowie, Mel Torme, Sam Shepard, David Byrne, Norman Mailer, Apple Computer (Knowledge Navigator, Newton) and many others.
Hedge fund manager David Einhorn has led calls for Apple to boost the return earned by shareholders, which he complains is dragged down by the low income the company earns on its cash hoard.
Forget all of the smoke that hedge fund manager David Einhorn is blowing right now about Apple and its proposal to eliminate its ability to issue preferred stock.
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The 1300-word review of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 also elicited 20% more skepticism and 5.5% more references to Apple from Times technology columnist David Pogue than his November 2010 review of the Samsung Galaxy Tab.
As The Guardian noted last month (via TUAW), IDC analyst David Daoud projected that sales of non-Apple tablet PCs would slip to 1.25 million units in 2010.
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That is sure to draw the attention of investors who have been wishing Apple would share the wealth, including David Einhorn, who has been calling for the company to leverage its massive war chest to return more capital to shareholders.
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TUAW's David Chartier wants to know what you would change about Apple Mail and Laurie A. Duncan wonders if Apple should offer a free OS X virtual machine inside every iPod.
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The war chest has become a target for activist hedge fund manager David Einhorn, whose Greenlight Capital owns a slug of Apple shares and has pushed the company to issue preferred shares with a fatter yield than the 2.5% on its common stock.
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Hedge fund manager David Einhorn says there is a corporate equivalent today: Apple.
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Apple's stock has risen 2% since David Einhorn, manager of hedge-fund firm Greenlight Capital, launched a public campaign to pressure management to return more cash to investors.
Investors interested in the strategies of David Tepper and David Einhorn may want to note that their top holding, Apple Inc. ( AAPL), is trading for close to its 52-week low, and less than the average price either of the two managers paid for their shares.
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"Most people I know have iPhones, " said David Barnard, founder of App Cubby, which makes utility programs for Apple devices.
The hedge fund manager David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital has withdrawn his legal attempt to get Apple to release some of its huge cash pile to shareholders.
David Einhorn has rather been doing the victory dance over his winning the suit against Apple.
David Shanks, the CEO of Penguin Group (USA), who once described Apple "the facilitator and go between" for the publishing companies, is also expected to take the stand this week.
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In a New Year letter to investors, David Einhorn listed gold as one of his Greenlight fund's top five holdings along with stock in Apple, Cigna, General Motors and Vodafone.
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