finance.yahoo.com - 1/14/2009
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Tunes: Changes to iTunes prices raise music labels' hopes
bloomberg.com - 1/15/2009
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Apple’s Cook Pushes Staff in Lieu of Jobs’s
Magic (Update1) By Dina Bass and Connie Guglielmo Jan....
15 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. founder and Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs is prone to fits of passion, table pounding and screaming. Tim Cook , who ...
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scobleizer.com - 1/14/2009
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It’s too late to sell your Apple stock.
If you sold it today, you are a genius....
But tomorrow? You’ll be the biggest loser. Why? Apple has the best team, the best distribution, the best supply chain, the best management in the business. ...
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You are an idiot if you sell your Apple stock tomorrow
valleywag.gawker.com - 1/14/2009
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CNBC's website is reporting that Steve Jobs ,
Apple's heroic CEO, is taking a six-month leave of...
absence to deal with his declining health. It is the best thing for Jobs. And for Apple. Jobs has battled pancreatic cancer and its aftereffects since ...
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Steve Jobs Takes 'Medical Leave' from Apple
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iTunes Store music pricing changes raises record labels hopes for new ‘bundling’ strategy
MacDailyNews —
... "Recording companies noticed. While none would comment on the record for this story, privately they say that Amazon's inability to become the dominant force in song sales indicates that consumers aren't considered "price sensitive." In other words, people are willing to pay more," Nakashima reports. Nakashima reports, "Apple has an estimated 80 percent share of the digital download market and about 71 percent of all portable music players sold in the United States." Full article here . MacDailyNews Take: The only question is whether the music cartels will call this ...
Record companies hoping to come out ahead on new iTunes pricing
Macsimum News —
... Although Apple announced this month that some songs sold on the iTunes Store would be available for 69 cents instead of the 99-cent tag Apple had insisted on for years, the change won’t necessarily put more money into the pockets of music lovers, according to the Associated Press. In fact—and... ...
Record companies happy with new iTunes pricing (duh)
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... announced at Macworld got groans from most of us watching (even though I'm pretty sure it's more or less agreed that it had to happen sooner or later), but the record companies are taking time to do a little bit of gloating over the fact that they've finally broken through Apple's 99 cent barrier. They told the AP that the move means that customers aren't "price sensitive" -- in other words, we're OK with paying more for music. ...
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Apple after Steve
crunchgear.com 1/15/2009 —
Mr. Jobs is taking a well-deserved breather from Apple. We here at CrunchGear hope he gets well soon, and think he’s doing the right thing: few jobs are more important than one’s own health, and certainly not being the CEO of a company ...
Rotten Reporting
community.winsupersite.com 1/22/2009 — Dan Lyons finally takes on a very obvious problem : Apple has too many friends in the media and rather than be critical of the company, they simply suck up to Apple in return for "super-secret" access. Heads-up, Dan. It's old news. I've ...
Apple Announces Its Last Year at Macworld
apple.com 12/16/2008 — CUPERTINO, California December 16, 2008 Apple today announced that this year is the last year the company will exhibit at Macworld Expo. Philip Schiller, Apple s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, will deliver the opening keynote ...
Post-Jobs Apple to profit from content and services, not just gadgets
tgdaily.com 1/8/2009 — You were probably underwhelmed a little bit with yesterday's Macworld 2009
keynote, given by Apple's marketing chief Phil Schiller. But truthfully, it wasn't the man's
fault at all. Apple warned all of us well in advance that Jobs would not deliver ...
Steve sends a Steve-note: I’m just thin
crunchgear.com 1/5/2009 — So Steve isn’t dying, he’s just thin. WSJ got a note from Steve describing his malady as some sort of nutritional/hormonal problem and, it seems, all is right with the world. First, the note.
Dear Apple Community,
For the first time ...
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