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Apple's Cook Finally Shares $98 Billion Cache

Raindrops are seen in front of an Apple logo outside an Apple store in Shanghai February 22, 2012.
Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook, moving swiftly after taking over from late Silicon Valley icon Steve Jobs, fulfilled a longstanding desire of investors by initiating a quarterly dividend and share buyback that will pay out $45 billion over three years.
Apple (AAPL) Shares Soar to 601 Following Dividend, Stock Buyback Announcement

Apple (AAPL) Stock Closes At 601, Boosted By Dividend, Shares Buyback Announcement

Apple (AAPL) shares soared on Monday, breaching the 600 mark a few times before finally settling on 601, after the Cupertino, Calif.-based tech company decided to share some of its $100 billion in cash with its investors. Apple announced it would reward shareholders by launching a quarterly dividend and a stock buyback program that will pay out about $45 billion over three years, set to go into effect later this year.
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Apple's Cash Disposition To Be Discussed On Call Monday

Apple Inc. -- the world's most valuable publicly traded company by its market capitalization of $545.97 billion -- will conduct a conference call to announce the outcome of discussions concerning its cash balance on Monday at 9 a.m. EDT, which is before the U.S. equity-market open.
FLA: Better Pay, Working Conditions for Apple Chinese Assemblers

Radio show on Apple's Chinese workers is retracted

The U.S. radio program This American Life has retracted an episode critical of working conditions at a Chinese factory that makes iPhones and iPads for Apple Inc, saying it had contained numerous fabrications.
Russell Brand Gives Up 4 Million Pounds To Kate Perry

Russell Brand Mugshot Released: 10 Celebrity Mugshots [PHOTOS]

Forgetting Sarah Marshall's Russell Brand had a warrant out for his arrest in New Orleans on Wednesday after he allegedly threw a photographer's iPhone through a law firm's window on Monday. Brand was released on a $5,000 bond after turning himself in on Thursday. The actor was booked on misdemeanor charges of two counts of simple criminal damage to property.
Apple (AAPL) stock currently exceeds Exxon market cap by $100 billion

Apple Stock Closes At $552, Exceeds Exxon Market Cap By $100B

Apple (AAPL) stock continues to pound the competition, closing at $552.00 on Monday, an all-time record for the Cupertino, Calif.-based computer company. Monday's high now puts Apple's market cap over $514 billion, which now exceeds Exxon's market cap -- currently standing at $403 billion -- by more than $100 billion.
Apple Siri Lawsuit

Siri to Speak Italian in 2012, Says Apple CEO Tim Cook

Apple doesn't openly tell the media what the company is building, but in an e-mail exchange with a fan, CEO Tim Cook announced that Apple will soon offer Italian language support for Siri, the company's AI personal assistant exclusive to the iPhone 4S.
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Technology Focus: PCs? Not Dead Yet By Any Means

Mark Twain would have been amused by the remarks of new Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook last week when he announced the post-PC era. As Twain observed after reading his obituary, The report of my death was an exaggeration.
Iron and Steel Industry in China

China Economic Slowdown: Could It Bring Jobs Back To The US?

The global markets tumbled this week, due in part to concerns about China's slowed economic growth. There are several reasons, however, why China's economic slowdown could actually benefit the U.S., despite the market's immediate reaction. One reason is the possible return of jobs to the United States' manufacturing sector.
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Unreal Engine 3 Runs on Adobe Flash Player [VIDEO]

The Unreal Engine, a fabled gaming engine originally developed in 1998 for the first-person shooter game Unreal, is known for its high degree of portability and has become frequently used by independent game developers as the backbone on which they power their games. Adobe Flash, a multimedia platform for web pages, is known for the exact opposite: Flash games, to this point, have been primarily 2D and, as Steve Jobs pointed out, are typically unstable.
It's been a day since Apple CEO Tim cook announced the new iPad, simply called, "the new iPad." While some believe Steve Jobs would've never approved such an unexciting, boring name, the truth of the matter is that Jobs would have LOVE

'The New iPad' by Apple: Why Steve Jobs Would Love The Name

It's been a day since Apple CEO Tim cook announced the new iPad, simply called, the new iPad. While some believe Steve Jobs would've never approved such an unexciting, boring name, the truth of the matter is that Jobs would have LOVED the name.
Apple CEO Cook speaks during an Apple event as he introduces the new iPad in San Francisco

New iPad Launch Event: Top 20 Coolest Moments (PHOTOS)

The tech giant Apple has released its third generation tablet - the 'New iPad', on March 7 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in San Francisco. And just as what many rumors indicated, a new Apple TV set top box was also announced at the event.

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