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Apple gets paid for products faster than it has to pay for manufacturing

by Mike Schramm (Jul 23rd, 2012)

Here's yet another sign of what a great position Apple has put itself in in terms of manufacturing: According to the Wall Street Journal [paywall], the company gets paid by its customers much faster than it is required to pay its suppliers. The difference between the inflow of sales and the ...

AAPL's top owners have cashed in some stock recently

by Mike Schramm (May 25th, 2011)

Fortune's Apple 2.0 blog has an interesting tidbit about Apple's stock lately. A blogger who calls himself Sammy the Walrus IV has been poking around into AAPL records, and has found out that several of Apple's top shareholders have sold some of the stock recently. There's nothing shocking ...

Booyah raises $20m, aims for 6m users

by Mike Schramm (May 18th, 2010)

I've lately been guessing that Booyah might eventually hook up with Ngmoco, since they're both iPhone gaming/app companies with somewhat similar goals that could help each other out. But it looks like Booyah doesn't need any help any more -- it's just raised a whopping $20 million from investors in ...

Microsoft still beats Apple in cash and investments, for now

by Mike Schramm (Feb 8th, 2010)

Back during the earnings call a few weeks ago, it was mentioned that Apple has a jaw-dropping almost $40 billion just sitting around in cash. In the chat, we started talking about other companies that might have that much money in the hopper -- Google came up, but I don't think we were able to ...