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By Brian Womack, Bloomberg |
December 13, 2012
Apple Inc., caving to user outrage over faulty directions in its home-grown navigation tool, has let Google Inc.’s mapping application back onto the iPad and iPhone mobile devices.
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By Adam Satariano and Josh Tyrangiel, Bloomberg |
December 6, 2012
Apple Inc. plans to spend more than $100 million next year on building Mac computers in the U.S., shifting a small portion of manufacturing away from China, the country that has handled assembly of its products for years.
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By Matthew Brown and Rita Nazareth, Bloomberg |
November 19, 2012
Global stocks snapped the longest losing streak in almost a year amid optimism a deal can be reached to avoid automatic U.S. spending cuts and tax increases. Oil led commodities higher. The dollar and Treasuries fell.
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By Tim Culpan and Adam Satariano, Bloomberg |
November 12, 2012
Apple Inc. settled all global lawsuits with HTC Corp., signaling a new willingness to resolve patent disputes without resorting to the “thermonuclear war” stance favored by co-founder Steve Jobs.
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By Adam Satariano, Bloomberg |
October 25, 2012
Apple Inc. forecast that profit and revenue fell short of analysts’ predictions as costs rose and customers held off on iPad purchases before the release of a new model.
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By Mariko Yasu and Shunichi Ozasa, Bloomberg |
October 15, 2012
Softbank Corp. agreed to buy a stake of about 70 percent in Sprint Nextel Corp. for $20.1 billion as Japan’s third-biggest mobile-phone operator seeks growth overseas amid a declining local market.
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By Adam Satariano and Ryan Faughnder, Bloomberg |
September 20, 2012
Apple Inc. is poised for a record iPhone 5 debut and may not be able to keep up with demand as customers line up from Sydney to New York to pick up the latest model of its top-selling product.
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By Susan Decker, Bloomberg |
September 14, 2012
Apple Inc. won a round of a U.S. International Trade Commission case brought by Samsung Electronics Co. over patented technology in the iPhone and iPad tablet computer, its second U.S. legal victory in a month.
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By Naoko Fujimura and Mariko Yasu, Bloomberg |
September 10, 2012
Sharp Corp., Japan’s biggest liquid-crystal display maker, put up its Osaka headquarters and some plants as collateral last week to win bank loans after its credit ratings were cut to junk.
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By Scott Moritz, Adam Ewing and Dina Bass, Bloomberg |
September 5, 2012
Nokia Oyj shares tumbled the most in almost three months after the introduction of two Lumia smartphones with Microsoft Corp.’s new Windows Phone software failed to impress investors.