In addition, we noted longer than expected lines at the five Apple stores we surveyed.
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Over the past five years Apple has grown net income and sales a compounded 64.21 and 44.81 percent respectively.
In a decision released on Friday, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California said the five software engineers suing Apple Inc, Google Inc and five other companies have yet to show enough in common among the proposed class members to allow them to sue together.
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So there are five things that Apple could probably shut down and no one would really notice.
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At this pace it would only take Apple five quarters to use up almost all of its approved buyback.
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And Sprint claims 5.7 hours of talk time on one charge, more than the five hours that Apple claims for its 3G model.
The invite-only event, including journalists and industry insiders, will feature a full bar, appetizers and a give-away of five special edition Apple iPod Touches.
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According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the title transfer was recorded on March 17, 2010, five days after Apple began pre-selling its first iPad.
That means Android is outselling Apple five to one.
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Jobs would resign from Apple five months later.
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According to the complaint, the five publishers and Apple were unhappy that competition among e-book sellers had reduced e-book prices and the retail profit margins of the book sellers to levels they thought were too low.
And in a twist on timing that Apple hopes may help it win branding rights, Gradiente Eletronica only launched its first "iphone", the iphone Neo One, in December 2012 -- five years after Apple debuted its inaugural iPhone.
For more than five years, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) had an unquestionable lead over Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT).
Apple uses five companies located in Ireland to carry out its tax strategy, according to the Congressional report.
Adding to potential worries, Apple and five book publishers were accused by the Justice Department of colluding to raise e-book prices.
Five years ago, Apple somehow managed to coerce a world full of Wintel users to give its smartphone platform a chance.
In less than five years, Apple and Google completely changed the mobile landscape with their mobile operating system (iOS and Android).
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Still, no Rothkos on my walls, like missing a great stock over the past five years, say Apple or Google or even IBM.
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Apple, an antitrust case in which the U.S. alleges that Apple and five of the largest publishers colluded to raise the prices of ebooks.
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Five years ago, Apple had a relatively skeleton crew in China, with 50 to 75 people focused largely on retail and online stores, according to former employees.
At this time last year, the industry was wondering about the impact of a U.S. Justice Department lawsuit filed in April 2012 against Apple and five leading publishers alleging price fixing for e-books.
Facts are murky and disputed, but by the end of 2009, Apple and five of the Big Six publishers (Random House being the outlier) had agreed to new business terms that overthrew the traditional wholesale model.
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When the US Department of Justice sued Apple and five major book publishers over alleged e-book price rigging, it immediately became clear that a few of these companies would do just about anything to avoid trial.
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The last time the stock was trading in oversold territory was in late July during a relatively modest pullback that took AAPL lower for three out of five sessions (though Apple shares did retreat to a new, two-week low).
While that does not seem like a very big increase in pay, it raises five important strategic questions for Apple management.
The firm's stock price is roughly where it was five years ago while rivals Apple, Amazon and Samsung have all seen theirs more than double.
And while some companies like Google and Twitter come off relatively well by those measures, five companies flunked altogether: Apple, Skype, Verizon, MySpace, and Comcast.
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But not five years later, Apple says 500, 000 iOS apps are available, and iPhone and iPad users have downloaded more than 25 billion of them.
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