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Apple Market Value Hits $600 Billion
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NEW YORK (AP) Apple already the world's most valuable company, hit the $600 billion level for the first time Tuesday. Only one other company has been worth $600 billion — Apple's old sparring partner Microsoft. It reached that valuation for … Continue reading
'Significant Issues' at Foxconn Factories
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The Fair Labor Association has issued a report on Foxconn, Apple's largest supplier in China. From the report: The findings of FLA’s nearly month-long investigation revealed serious and pressing noncompliances with FLA’s Workplace Code of Conduct, as well as Chinese … Continue reading
Apple to Pay One of Richest Shareholder Dividends in U.S.
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NEW YORK (AP) Thirty-six years after its founding, Apple Inc. is finally loosening up its purse strings to reward shareholders directly, by instituting a dividend and share buyback program. Investors had been expecting Monday's announcement, driving up Apple shares 37 … Continue reading
Mike Daisey Pushes Back in Blog Post
Mike Daisey is pushing back today on the mesmerizing if excruciating 57 minutes of radio that was this weekend's "This American Life" show. The program, titled "Retraction," was an investigation and mea culpa regarding falsehoods in Daisey's monologue about abuses … Continue reading
Listen to This American Life's Mike Daisey Retraction
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In January, the radio show "This American Life" ran an excerpt from monologist Mike Daisey's show "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," but now it's retracted the segment after Rob Schmitz, a reporter for another radio show, "Marketplace," … Continue reading
Audio: 'Marketplace' Correspondent and Ira Glass Confront Mike Daisey on Monologue Discrepancies
Here's "Marketplace"'s segment today about the Mike Daisey-Foxconn controversy. The piece is done in conjunction with another radio program, "This American Life," which said today it's retracting an excerpt it aired from Daisey's well-received theatrical monologue about abuses at Foxconn, … Continue reading
'This American Life' Retracts Mike Daisey's Story of Visit to Apple Contractor Foxconn; Daisey's Response
Mike Daisey's "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," a one-man show about his trip to Apple contractor Foxconn in China, caused quite a stir and served as another chunk of bad public relations for both companies. The radio … Continue reading
Tech Analyst Tim Bajarin on New Apple iPad: So Good, Competitors 'Don't Have a Response'; Full Video of Today's Event
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Update 1:05 p.m. KQED's Stephanie Martin talked today to tech analyst/consultant/columnist Tim Bajarin, whose opinion carries a lot of weight in the industry. It's no exaggeration to say that after getting his hands on the new iPad, he was blown … Continue reading
Interview: Stanford Student Who Caught Google in Breach of Privacy on Apple Browser
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Google is a cookie monster, or so says research by Stanford grad student Jonathan Mayer and a subsequent investigation by the Wall Street Journal. From the Journal: Google Inc. and other advertising companies have been bypassing the privacy settings of … Continue reading
Apple Says Independent Inspections of Foxconn Have Begun
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NEW YORK (AP) — Apple said Monday that an independent group, the Fair Labor Association, has started inspecting the working conditions in the Chinese factories where its iPads and iPhones are assembled. The technology company last month disclosed a list … Continue reading
