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It’s been two years since Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) first started selling applications for the iPhone through the App store. In that time, investors have flocked to the opportunity, pumping slightly more than $100 million into 17 companies. The figures are being reported today by “the ChubbyBrain database,” which keeps a…

Rupert Murdoch has already said News Corp (NYSE: NWS) intends to charge “handsomely” for its WSJ iPhone and Blackberry apps eventually. How much and when? Still unclear but WSJ.com is surveying iPhone users about their willingness to pay for what is now a completely free product. The idea seems to…

With Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) demonstrating that there is almost as big of a market for the iPod Touch as there is for the iPhone, it’s no wonder that Dell is considering crafting a pocket-sized device that will connect to the internet (but won’t be capable of making calls). The WSJ…

Steve Jobs has returned to his job as CEO after recovering from a liver transplant during a seven-month long medical leave. “Steve is back to work. We are very glad to have him back,” said Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) spokesman Steve Dowling. Bloomberg reported that Jobs will be working both at…

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is tripling its stake in UK microchip firm Imagination Technologies, taking its share to 9.5 percent. Its buying 2.2 million new shares at £1.4275 each (total £3.14 million).

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Steve Jobs was treated two months ago in a Tennessee hospital for a liver transplant, the WSJ reports, citing an unidentified source, who added that the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO will work only part time for the next month or two. So, though Jobs is on schedule to return to…

If all goes as planned (and it does more often than not where MLBAM is concerned) baseball fans with iPhones/iTouches and the MLB.com At Bat will get a live streaming doubleheader Thursday. And that’s just the opening act. Plunking down a one-time fee of $9.99 will provide live out-of-market video…

The most exciting part of today’s WWDC event came nearly two hours into the keynote when Apple’s SVP of Worldwide Marketing Phillip Schiller came back on the stage and said the words everyone had been waiting for—that there’s an entirely new version of the iPhone, called iPhone 3G S. The…

Steve Jobs is coming back. According to the WSJ.com’s sources, Apple’s CEO who is a pancreatic cancer survivor, will return from medical leave this month. But what everyone wants to know, is will he be back at the company’s annual software developers conference on Monday, to possibly debut a new…

The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether big tech firms, including Google, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) broke antitrust law by possibly colluding on hiring policies, according to a report in the Washington Post. Apparently the companies may have agreed not to actively recruit employees away from…

When Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) launched its iPhone application store in mid-2008, it pointed out that the company wasn’t looking to make a ton of dough. It was more interested in creating a community that would help drive iPhone sales, a strategy that worked with the company’s launch of iTunes and…

A new Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) ad notes that it costs $14.99 a month to subscribe to the Zune’s unlimited music subscription service—but $30,000 to fill a 120 gigabyte iPod with songs. Not quite a fair comparison since Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) doesn’t have a subscription service, but that’s the point. The…

*Apple* already sells iPods through kiosks in airports and stores, but the company also has plans for units that will let people load up on digital movies and music on the go. AppleInsider dug up a patent detailing Apple’s plan to develop a kiosk that will let owners of iPods,…

Behind the FTC’s probe into whether Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) are violating antitrust laws by having overlapping directors is a simple question: How much do the two companies really compete? Philip Elmer-DeWitt at CNNMoney.com counts 10 areas in which the two companies have dueling offerings: —Smartphone operating…

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has nearly $29 billion of cash on hand, a hoard exceeded by only one tech company—Cisco Systems (NSDQ: CSCO), reports Reuters. With that kind of capital in the bank, it’s no wonder that buyout rumors are rampant. At this stage, the rumors seem highly unlikely.The most ridiculous,…

Trent Reznor isn’t one to shy away from taking on the man. He self-releases his albums digitally through his website and often allows fans to sample his music for free in re-mixes. Now, he’s taking on Apple (NSDQ: AAPL). In the Nine Inch Nails blog Reznor tells how iTunes wouldn’t…

Fifteen-year *Microsoft* vet Richard Teversham is defecting to *Apple*. Teversham most recently served as senior director of business, insights and strategy for Xbox in Europe; he spent two years as Xbox’s platform and marketing director before that. He’s joining Apple’s European office in an “education-related” role, according to MCV. Given…