Since Apple CEO Tim Cook has been visiting China, this report emanating from China appears credible, although in the world of Apple rumors there is never a certainty.
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In terms of acquiring another company for the sake of clearing up existing issues, a distribution breakthrough in any BRIC country would do a world of good for Apple by boosting share prices and easing an area of investor concern.
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In a world of popular opinion where Apple is increasingly seen as the villain when it comes to patent litigation, Samsung has done a nice little job setting itself up as the plucky underdog.
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And if the plans of Apple's rivals in the world of Windows-based computers are any indicator, Apple should by all rights be ready to make another leap into entertainment-oriented hardware.
He searches for the origins of the domestic apple in Kazakhstan to tell an evolutionary tale which explains how every eating apple in the world is a direct descendent of apples in the Tien Shan forest (the bitter taste of apple pips is cyanide, their shape adapted to slip through the guts of a marauding bear unharmed).
And just as the past started to fade and it seemed as if this place was a far cry from the old-world apple strudel feel of the former West, I overheard a conversation.
People who call Apple cheap have a point, even in the bipolar world of Nasdaq stocks there is plenty of room for Apple rallies.
We expect the new iPhone 5 to out-ship Samsung's Galaxy S3 in the coming fourth quarter of 2012 and Apple should soon reclaim the title of the world's most popular smartphone model.
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In other words, Microsoft may be big, but in the world of digital content, somehow, Apple has managed to loom larger.
They were neck and neck in 2011, spending 18.6 and 18.8 billion on semiconductors worldwide, but a new Gartner report out today finds that Samsung has pulled ahead of Apple as the world's biggest chip buyer by a decent margin.
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Dozuki's powerful framework has powered iFixit onto Inc's list of the 5000 fastest growing companies for the past three years. iFixit is now one of the largest Apple parts companies in the world, hosting complete service manuals for every major Apple product. iFixit's popular gadget teardowns receive millions of views and drive consistent e-commerce growth.
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Cook is predicting that at some, unspecified point, China is going to become the largest consumer of Apple products in the world.
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Yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook, in a fireside chat, tried to convince the world that Apple is still the center of innovation in the technology world.
Valve is the Apple of the gaming world to some degree, except that it has a reputation for working with its fans and consumers, rather than simply leading them.
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China Mobile uses a different 3G network from the rest of the world and some experts say Apple might wait for the new network to be commercially viable before launching the iPhone with the carrier.
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Only in the world of personal computers could a company like Apple, essentially a has-been reduced to a miniscule market share, introduce a throwback model distinguished only by a differently colored plastic box, and have it treated by the media as if it was a history-making event.
Mr. Lam said that could indicate a decision by Apple not to buy memory from Samsung, the world's biggest supplier of flash memory chips, amid continuing patent litigation between Apple and the chip maker's parent.
Steve Jobs was the visionary who revived Apple and managed a breathtaking serial innovation of blockbuster products that turned Apple Inc. into the world's most valuable company.
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While phones running Google's Android system represent the majority of the world's smartphones, no single phone has come anywhere near the popularity of Apple's iPhone.
Thanks largely to the iPhone, Apple is one of the world's most profitable companies.
Back in January, gadget geeks around the world drooled all over themselves at the debut of Apple 's iPhone.
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Back in January, gadget geeks around the world drooled all over themselves at the debut of Apple 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iPhone.
Gadgets and cars are two products that seem to be growing in every country of the world, making earnings reports from Apple (AAPL) and Ford (F) critical to watch in the coming week.
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Which it has: simply put there has been a world of innovation in point-of-sale technology and concepts that seems to have swept by Apple, of all companies.
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The price was that for decades, as Microsoft took command of the world of business and workplace computing that was the foundation of the PC industry, most people saw Apple as a maker of overpriced, prettified luxury goods that lacked some of the core functionality of PCs and PC-based devices.
"He didn't look very good at that event, " Barcroft says of Jobs appearance at Apple's World Wide Developer's Forum last month.
Samsung has enjoyed massive success with its Galaxy range of smartphones and displaced Apple as the world's biggest smartphone maker last year.
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