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Evasi0n used to jailbreak 7 million devices in less than a week

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 8th, 2013)

Forbes talked to Jay Freeman, aka Saurik, who confirmed that the recent Evasi0n jailbreak is the most popular jailbreak in iOS history. According to Saurik, the utility was used to jailbreak more than 7 million devices in the four days since it was released earlier this week. Freeman claims his ...

Al Gore buys lots of AAPL

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 18th, 2013)

Al Gore is not afraid of all the doom and gloom surrounding Apple. According to Forbes, the politician/environmentalist just spent US$440,000 to buy 59,000 shares of Apple stock. Of course, he exercised stock options that he received for serving on Apple's Board of Directors and bought the ...

The iPad as a shopping venue

by Steven Sande (Nov 28th, 2012)

Black Friday online shopping uncovered a surprising theme -- the iPad is a popular tool for browsing and buying products on the Internet. Darcy Travlos at Forbes took a look at the data and found some tidbits that point to an interesting conclusion; "e-commerce may become the killer app for the ...

Daily Update for October 2, 2012

by Steven Sande (Oct 2nd, 2012)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

AAPL declines again, S&P and Nasdaq see an impact

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 17th, 2012)

When it comes to stocks, Apple is an influencer and any changes in its stock price will affect US stock indexes. That's what happened on Monday when the Dow Jones Industrial Average surged and the NASDAQ and S&P fell because of Apple, says a report in Forbes. The NASDAQ and S&P both ...

Review: 'The Zen of Steve Jobs' graphic novel

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 29th, 2011)

I just took ten minutes (hey, it's a comic book) and read Caleb Melby and Jess3's The Zen of Steve Jobs graphic novel and I think anyone who is a fan of comic books or Steve Jobs is going to like it. As I told you in September, the 60-page graphic novel is a re-imagining of Steve Jobs' life during ...

Former Compaq CEO now loves his Mac

by Mel Martin (Oct 22nd, 2011)

Forbes is reporting a fun story about former Compaq CEO Ben Rosen. Seems Steve Jobs and Rosen met in 1999, and Jobs tried to convince Rosen, then at Compaq, to license the Mac OS. It never happened, and Steve reportedly had second thoughts about it all anyway. Fast forward to 2007. Rosen writes ...

Forbes: Apple tried to buy Dropbox

by Steven Sande (Oct 18th, 2011)

When we began hearing about Apple's iCloud, a lot of the TUAW staffers thought the same thing -- why doesn't Apple just buy Dropbox? After all, it works the way that a lot of Apple fans think cloud storage should intuitively work. Well, a story by Forbes staffer Victoria Barret spills the beans ...

Forbes profiles Comex, the hacker behind JailbreakMe

by Steven Sande (Aug 1st, 2011)

The Apple world knows him as Comex, the person who developed JailbreakMe to let iPhone users quickly and easily jailbreak their devices. Now Forbes has outed Comex in a preview of an article that will be published in the magazine later this week. Comex is really Nicholas Allegra, a 19 year old ...

Forbes: China growth will propel AAPL shares to $547 in the next nine months

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 1st, 2011)

Eric Jackson at Forbes has written a piece with some astounding numbers about Apple's business in China. Most impressively, Jackson thinks that because of Apple's China business, Apple shares will hit $547 per share by January 2012, which is only nine months away. That's an impressive upswing ...

Apple exchanges iPads for iPad 2 for Rutgers class

by TJ Luoma (Mar 9th, 2011)

An Apple retail store in New Jersey has taken back an order of original iPads and replaced them with iPad 2 units for a class at Rutgers' Center for Management Development, according to Forbes. In a move bound to annoy everyone who bought an iPad just before the iPad 2 was released and found ...

Analyst: iPhone mini could increase Apple's market reach by 6X, revenue 2.5X

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 16th, 2011)

Analyst Toni Sacconaghi of Bernstein Research predicts Apple could increase its addressable handset market by 6X in unit volume and 2.5X in revenue with the launch of a smaller, less expensive iPhone model, says Forbes. These projected numbers come from his analysis of handset market share and ...

Report: Apple's inventory woes fixed for holiday shoppers

by Matt Tinsley (Oct 25th, 2010)

A number of analysts are expecting inventory shortages to restrict holiday gadget sales. However, Forbes reports that Apple will be able to avoid the pinch. Jason Busch, the founder and Managing Director of advisory firm Azul Partner, expects Apple to keep holiday shoppers happy for three main ...

Fortune names Jobs "CEO of the Decade"

by Dave Caolo (Nov 5th, 2009)

Forbes Fortune bestowed a significant honor on Steve Jobs today, naming him their CEO of the Decade. Fortune outlines the incredible leaps in business, technology and industry Apple has made since Steve's return. For anyone who might not remember, the 90's were not kind to Apple and nearly everyone ...

For a guy who makes $1 per year, Steve Jobs sure is rich!

by Steven Sande (Oct 1st, 2009)

Forbes Magazine published their annual "400 Richest Americans" ranking yesterday, and as usual Mr. William Gates of Microsoft leads the list at a net worth of US$50 billion. Others in the PC world are in the list -- Microsoft's favorite screamer Steve Ballmer is at #14 with US$13.3 billion, the ...