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Apple leads the App Store race with 170,000 apps

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 20th, 2010)

Silicon Alley Insider has posted an interesting chart that shows the total number of apps available across various mobile platforms. As you can see from the chart, Apple's iPhone leads the pack by a longshot with 170,000 apps according to AppShopper.com. AppShopper typically lists more apps than ...

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 ...