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Profits double at Apple

Apple has posted net profits of $5.99bn for the quarter ending March 31st – that a jump of nearly 100 per cent compared to the $3bn reported in the same quarter the year before. Revenue for the period was up 83 per cent at $24.67bn. iPhone sales were the champion …

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Apple hit by GPS scandal

Security researchers unveiled the scandalous discovery that Apple’s iPhone and iPad are recording the user’s geographic location to a secret file. Revealing the discovery at the O’Reilly Where 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara, researchers Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden said that iPhone and iPad have been "storing a long list …

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Apple blocks new PopCap game

In news that will generate plenty of publicity and surely not cause too much unease at casual giant PopCap, new release Unpleasant Horse has been blocked by Apple. The game is the first release from PopCap’s new satellite studio 4th & Battery, whose self-defined goal is to "quickly try really …

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Now Activisions Nick Grange joins Apple

Apple has poached not one but two of the games industry’s best PR execs – with Activision’s Nick Grange set to join Nintendo’s Rob Saunders at the manufacturer. As with Saunders, Grange’s appointment is yet to be officially confirmed, but MCV understands that he will be joining the company in …

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Rob Saunders heading to Apple

MCV understands that current Nintendo UK comms boss is to join iPhone platform holder; Is another key PR exec to follow? Nintendo UK’s head of PR, Robert Saunders, will shortly re-emerge in a newly created role at Apple. There is no confirmation from Apple or Saunders himself as yet, but …

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