Michael Bowman of voanews.com writes:
Top executives of American technology giant Apple faced intense questioning from U.S. lawmakers about the company's use of off-shore entities that allow it to shield billions of dollars in global profits from federal taxes. Apple’s chief executive admitted to no wrongdoing, but urged an overhaul of the U.S. tax code.
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The eighth annual Millward Brown Optimor BrandZ Top 100 ranking of the most valuable global brands still has Apple at the top, despite a slight drop in the total value of technology brands.
Apple’s brand value was calculated at $185 billion, just 1% up from 2012. Google retained second place but closed the gap slightly.
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Categories: Handsets and manufacturers, Networks and operators, Operating systems, News
Tags: research, apple, google, ibm, at&t, microsoft, china, verizon, vodafone
Customers have downloaded more than 50 billion apps from the Apple App Store since the service launched in July 2008, according to a new announcement from the company.
Current download rates have reached 2 billion mobile apps per month… or more than 800 apps every second.
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Podcast - 8th May 2013
We start today's programme with the promise of a faster roll-out for the UK's mobile broadband services.
Next on the agenda is tablet sales... followed by mobile security, mobile boarding passes, quarterly results, acquisitions, advertising and management succession.
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Categories: Handsets and manufacturers, Retailing, Networks and operators, Operating systems, Applications, Podcasts
Tags: podcast, broadband, ofcom, uk, 4g, apple, tablet, android, htc, facebook, advertising, applications, intel
Worldwide shipments of tablet devices grew by 142.4% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2013, according to a new report from the International Data Corporation.
49.2 million devices were shipped during the first three months of the year; more than total tablet sales in the first half of 2012.
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Tags: research, android, ios, windows, microsoft, samsung, apple, asus, google, amazon
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