Mac App Store passes 100m mark December 12, 2011 Apple yesterday said it has passed 100m downloads from its Mac App Store – the version of its online shop installed on its range of laptop and desktop computers – in less than a year. Apple’s main app store has more than 500,000 apps and more than 18bn customer downloads, with the total growing at [...]
French court denies iPhone ban December 8, 2011 A French court yesterday rejected Samsung’s request for an injunction to prevent Apple from selling its iPhone 4S in France, sought on the grounds it copied elements of Samsung’s Galaxy line of mobiles. Calling the request out of proportion, the court also ordered Samsung to pay €100,000 of Apple’s legal fees.
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING December 7, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES DUBLIN IS URGED TO SELL NAMA AS A SINGLE ENTITY A secret report into the operations of Ireland’s National Asset Management Agency, the state agency set up to purge Irish banks of their toxic property loans, has recommended that the government should consider selling it off as a single entity. FINANCING PROBLEMS WEIGH [...]
Apple loses its battle for iPad trademark in China December 7, 2011 APPLE yesterday lost a lawsuit in which it claimed infringement of its iPad trademark by Taiwanese-owned company Proview Technology. Proview registered the name IPAD for use in mainland China in 2001, and in several other areas including the EU between 2000 and 2004. In 2006 it agreed to sell the “global trademark” to Apple, but claims [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING December 6, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES CLARKE REJECTS CALL FOR EU POWER GRAB Ken Clarke has told Conservative eurosceptics to forget about repatriation of powers from Brussels at this week’s European Union summit, while urging David Cameron to focus on “how to maintain the financial stability of the western world.” The justice secretary’s comments, in an interview with the [...]
EC probing e-book publishers December 6, 2011 The European Commission is investigating whether e-book publishers owned by Lagardere, Pearson, News Corp and two other firms fixed prices with Apple, blocking rivals and hurting consumers. The decision by the European Commission to open an investigation yesterday followed raids on the companies in March this year. US regulators are also looking into pricing deals [...]
HTC sales fall 30 per cent in a month December 6, 2011 Sales of Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC have dropped 30 per cent in November from a month before, as the world’s No.4 smartphone brand struggled to compete against bigger rivals Apple and Samsung. HTC says its consolidated sales for November fell to T$30.94bn (£654m) from T$38.48bn a year ago and T$44.11bn in October 2011. “It shows [...]
Samsung soars as Apple loses court bid December 6, 2011 APPLE has lost its most recent battle in a legal fight against Samsung, as its bid to stop Galaxy sales in the US was denied, causing shares in the South Korean company to jump by more than two per cent. Apple was trying to get an injunction against the sale of certain Samsung products in the [...]
A warning from the future: Don’t bank on old ways December 4, 2011 FOR banks, the path of lowest possible risk is to continue doing what they’ve always done; however this would be a grave mistake, as Alan Hughes wrote in the Forum last week [The challenge to banks: Who will lead on service, Wednesday]. Not only is service important, as Hughes argues, but with technology shifting the [...]
Disney boss buys Apple stock December 1, 2011 Apple’s newest board member, Walt Disney co-chief executive Bob Iger, bought about $1m (£640,000) worth of the iPhone maker’s shares earlier this week, a symbolic gesture of confidence in the prospects of the company. Iger, who was appointed to Apple’s board in November, bought 2,670 Apple shares on the open market on Tuesday at an [...]