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Slate throws Apple a $100B idea, suggests iBank

by Robert Palmer (Jan 23rd, 2009)

In an interesting -- not to say wildly speculative -- essay, Slate Magazine's Karim Bardeesy says that Apple should take some of its $28 billion and start a bank. During Wednesday's conference call, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer made it clear that the company was looking to keep its cash right where ...

The cool music you can't buy on iTunes, unless you're in Japan

by Scott McNulty (Jan 25th, 2007)

Paul Collins, writing for Slate, laments all the cool music that people outside of Japan are missing out on via the iTunes Store. As you know, if you don't have a credit card tied to an address in a particular country you can't buy any music from that country's flavor of the iTunes Store. If you're ...