Google, Facebook and even Yahoo have been hailed as visionary companies that aren’t just disrupting old media, they’re replacing it. That conjecture hasn’t applied as readily to Apple, which after all deals in high-end hardware, not eyeballs or advertising. A closer look, however, reveals...
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Apple has more than 435 million iTunes accounts stored in the company’s database, according to Talal Khan, an analyst.
Apple’s ITunes Would Be One of World’s Biggest Media Companies
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Accessory makers and app developers aren't the only ones that have built businesses in Apple's orbit.
The Big Business of Apple Blogs
Amid a crowded field of websites dedicated to covering every move of Apple, John Gruber’s Daring Fireball blog stands out. With about 5 million visitors a month, the 10-year-old site has grabbed the attention of those inside the $634 billion juggernaut and...
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Crowds of Chinese Foxconn employees have lunch in a dining hall at Foxconn's Shenzhen plant.
Now Can We Start Talking About the Real Foxconn?
So Mike Daisey’s been outed. The things he said he saw, he didn’t. The people he said he spoke to, he didn’t. The discoveries he said he made, he didn’t. He lied. It matters a lot that Mike Daisey lied,...
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Facebook and Twitter are mostly an additional way to get news, not a replacement, Pew said.
Facebook, Twitter: Not Hubs for News Traffic, Report Says
While Facebook and Twitter may eat up our social time online, they’re not pushing us to news sites like other services. Just 9 percent of Americans “very often” follow news recommendations from the two online social services, according to Pew Research...
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The Web’s ‘Disappointed’ With New iPad No One Has Yet Seen
Apple is launching the iPad 3 -- or maybe the the iPad HD -- today at 10 am PST. The tech blogosphere is abuzz with speculation. So much news and rumor is already out that the news cycle may have...
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