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Fortune ranks Apple as the “World’s Most Admired Company” 5 years running
For the fifth year in a row, Apple sits atop Fortune’s compilation of the world’s most admired companies. The ranking is the result of extensive surveys sent out to corporate executives, directors, and analysts who are asked to rank companies that reside in their own industry. With 2011 now clearly in our rear view mirror, […]
Continue reading...Microsoft mocks Google in “Googlighting” spoof [Video]
Thursday, February 23, 2012
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It’s funny how quickly Google morphed from a pure search company into the sworn enemy of two tech behemoths – Apple and Microsoft. Google revenue is primarily generated via search advertising, and everything they do is effectively an effort to make more money with ads. The end result is that Google tends to give a […]
Continue reading...Google’s losing bet on hardware manufacturers
Thursday, February 23, 2012
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Dustin Curtis recently wrote a great post explaining why a lot of the Android phones out on the market today are completely atrocious from a UI perspective. Curtis relays a conversation he had with Rich Miner, one of the founders of Android, and how Google’s intention with Android was to take care of the nitty […]
Continue reading...Judge rules that employee-poaching lawsuit against Google, Apple and others can continue
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
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In the high-tech bubble that is Silicon Valley, engineering talent is king, and the battle for that talent is often fierce. Indeed, Steve Jobs was so paranoid about other companies stealing his employees that the “About This Mac” option on the Apple menu bar – which used to list the names of employees involved in the […]
Continue reading...Safari owns over 50% of mobile browser marketshare
Friday, January 6, 2012
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Google views the smartphone market as nothing more than a numbers game. Getting Android handsets into as many hands as possible is their ultimate goal, and while they like to tout impressive numbers like 700,000 daily activations, the reality is that Android users are less likely to purchase apps than their iPhone counterparts and that […]
Continue reading...Andy Rubin tweets: 3.7 million Android activations in two days
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
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Google’s Android head Andy Rubin tweeted just a few minutes ago that the number of Android activations on December 24th and 25th came in at 3.7 million. An impressive figure to be sure, but as we’ll explain in a post shortly, Apple also did quite well over the Christmas holiday as iOS activations this past […]
Continue reading...Google Music Store finally becomes a reality
Monday, November 21, 2011
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Well after years of haggling with record companies, Google last week finally unveiled its new Android-centric Google Music service and to say that it borrows a lot from iTunes would be quite an understatement. But hey, if the model works, why change it. Like iTunes, songs on Google Music will be available at pricepoints ranging […]
Continue reading...Eric Schmidt dismisses claims that Android ripped off the iPhone
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
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In his biography, Steve Jobs minced no words when it came to Android. Jobs vowed to spend every last penny in Apple’s coffers to destroy Android, claiming that it was a copycat product that unabashedly stole Apple’s IP. “I will spend my last dying breath if I need to…to right this wrong. I’m going to […]
Continue reading...Eric Schmidt touts competitive threat of Siri in letter to US Sentate antitrust subcommittee
Monday, November 7, 2011
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Google may try hard to uphold their “Don’t be Evil” mantra, but the search giant apparently has no qualms about being hypocritical. We saw this first hand a few months back when Google made a number of public statements about the sorry state of the patent system and how companies like Apple and Microsoft are resorting […]
Continue reading...Google set to release native Gmail app for the iPhone – Rumor
Monday, October 31, 2011
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MG Siegler writes that Google either already has or is on the verge of submitting a native Gmail app for acceptance into the iTunes App Store. Now why in the world would I need a native Gmail app you might be wondering. After all, the web-based version of Gmail is pretty slick and accessing Gmail […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs’ advice to Larry Page
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Steve Jobs’ hatred for Android can’t be overstated. In a recently released excerpt, the Apple co-founder vowed to destroy Android and told biographer Walter Isaacson he’d spend his last dying breath trying to right what Jobs considered to be Google’s grand theft of Apple’s iOS. Nevertheless, Jobs appeared to have mended fences with Google CEO […]
Continue reading...Eric Schmidt praises Steve Jobs – “He was always ahead of me”
Monday, October 17, 2011
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Erick Schmidt and Steve Jobs have had their squabbles over the years, most famously when Jobs felt Schmidt stabbed him and Apple in the back with their plans for Android. You might remember that Schmidt at one point was a board member at Apple before resigning in 2009 citing a conflict of interest due to […]
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Wednesday, March 7, 2012
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