Apple's Goliath Effect
For two financial quarters in a row, the New York Times has expertly timed slingshots at Apple that have had a material effect on its stock. But that's what happens when you're Goliath. They say the third time's a charm.
For two financial quarters in a row, the New York Times has expertly timed slingshots at Apple that have had a material effect on its stock. But that's what happens when you're Goliath. They say the third time's a charm.
Christopher Elliott | Posted 04.16.2012
Well, they're the perfect item to plunder. They're relatively compact, they're sought-after and there's a robust, no-questions-asked market for used iPads online. Oh, and they're pretty easy to steal.
One For The Table | Posted 05.19.2012
It is no surprise to anyone who knows me, that I received a 3rd Generation iPad on Friday. One thing I immediately noticed in the media upon its release, is how so many people were quick to say it wasn't that big of an upgrade. They could not be more wrong.
The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 03.16.2012
For new iPad owners, a word from those who have come before you: Fraud at Apple's App Store, the brand's virtual mall for digital merchandise, is out ...
The Huffington Post | Mark Hanrahan | Posted 03.07.2012
From the launch of Apple's new iPad to violent protests in the Middle East, thousands of stories have unfolded around the world in the last 24 hours. ...
Neil Wagner | Posted 02.26.2012
Joel Drucker | Posted 01.30.2012
Having just finished reading Walter Isaacson's engaging biography of Steve Jobs, I am struck yet again by our country's twisted values.
Jesse Larner | Posted 12.10.2011
I have no wish to speak ill of the dead, and I'm sad that Jobs is dead, and that he died relatively young. But I'm not at all sure that what he did was so world-changing.
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 12.06.2011
Yesterday, the student who never graduated from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, died at age 56. He left us a bitten apple painted on a host of technological gadgets, and wondering how many more he could have created.
Defining Ideas | William Damon | Posted 12.06.2011
This piece comes to us courtesy of Defining Ideas, the journal of the policy research Hoover Institution at Stanford University. After Steve Jobs s...
AP | JORDAN ROBERTSON | Posted 12.06.2011
SAN FRANCISCO — Steve Jobs saw the future and led the world to it. He moved technology from garages to pockets, took entertainment from discs to...
AP | Posted 12.06.2011
NEW YORK -- An authorized biography of Steve Jobs was high on best-seller lists within hours of Apple's announcement of his death. And publisher Simon...
AP | JORDAN ROBERTSON | Posted 12.05.2011
SAN FRANCISCO — Suddenly, the next version of the iPhone doesn't seem so important. It's time to mourn Steve Jobs, the Silicon Valley maestro wh...
Gil Laroya | Posted 05.25.2011
Apple has converted its competition into a manic group of "me too" companies, which in the business world automatically limits the success of competitive products.
James Napoli | Posted 05.25.2011
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Apple Corps, EMI Group, Ltd., the surviving Beatles and the estates of John Lennon and George Harrison have agreed to no longer offer the band's music on the Internet.
Brian Ross | Posted 05.25.2011
The Financial Times projects that Fox News will be Murdoch's most profitable and successful business. Maybe the Left needs its own dippy blonde anchor...
Geri Spieler | Posted 05.25.2011
We have become a nation of lazy thinkers. The unreality of "San Francisco Values" fits the same tone here in that people will choose to believe what a "celebrity" tells them.
George Spyros | Posted 05.25.2011
Fortune online is calling Apple's new commercials for FaceTime "heartbreaking." Spolier warning: nobody gets any bad news. As a matter of fact, in two out of the four spots, the characters in fact receive good news.
BJ Gallagher | Posted 05.25.2011
And so it goes. Customers love Apple the same way that women love bad boys ... and men marry bitches. We put up with all kinds of crap because we love our iPhones, iPads, iPods, and more.
Charles Feldman | Posted 05.25.2011
For those of you who have followed my attempts to secure an iPhone 4, the latest time-sucking device from the good people at Apple, I am pleased to report that finally, finally, I have gotten my hands on one.
Gil Laroya | Posted 05.25.2011
Apple attorneys were allegedly behind the court ordered raid of the home of a tech blogger who outted the iPhone 4G prototype on Gizmodo.
Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011
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Lee Schneider | Posted 11.17.2011
If you check the statistics during the period the cartoon aired, you'll see that murder rates went down, school attendance went up and SAT scores went through the roof.
Gil Laroya | Posted 05.25.2011
Apple is more "evolutionary" than "revolutionary." They take big, ugly, complex and frustrating technology that works, and turn that same technology into something that is smaller, prettier, simpler and friendlier.
Jonathan Littman | Posted 05.03.2012