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IT'S OFFICIAL: Apple Is Raising $17 Billion In A Historic Bond Offering
According to both Bloomberg and WSJ, Apple is raising a total of $17 billion in the largest ever non-financial corporate bond offering in history.By all accounts, the offering is massively...
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Anyone Who Thinks Apple's Bonds Are As Safe As Government Bonds Is Hallucinating
Apple is borrowing $17 billion today.Demand for these "iBonds," as they are affectionately known, is off the charts. The scuttlebutt is that investors are so stoked about lending money to Apple that...
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The State Of Maine Just Gave Apple Some Painful News (AAPL, MSFT, HPQ)
For the first time since 2002, the State of Maine wants its schools to buy HP notebooks running Windows 8 instead of Apple Macs.HP just won a contract to become the preferred tech provider for Maine...
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Apple Is Going To Copy Microsoft Design Cues For The Next Big iPhone Update,...
At Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in 2006, top executive Bertrand Serlet stood on stage mocking Microsoft.Two years before, Apple launched a new Mac operating system at WWDC. It hung...
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Uber CEO: Reuters Is Totally Wrong, We're Not Raising Money
Earlier, Reuters wrote that Uber was raising a new round of financing that could value the company at $1 billion.Uber's CEO Travis Kalanick tells Business Insider that is not true. At all."This company...
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iPhone Strong In U.S., But At Risk Of Single-Digit Market Share Globally
Mobile Insights is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Sign up for a free trial of BI Intelligence today.iPhone...
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CHART: These Major Retailers Are Most Threatened By Mobile
The practice of “showrooming,” or viewing an item in a retail store and then buying it online, has brought the e-commerce threat directly to bricks-and-mortar retailers. Mobile raises the showrooming...
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Advertisers Are Making A Last Ditch Attempt To Kill 'Do Not Track'
The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) is making a formal plea this week that Do Not Track (DNT), the setting that keeps advertisers from seeing your browser history, be kept "off" by default.The DAA...
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Famous Tennis Player Tweets About How Much He Loves His Samsung Galaxy...
Tennis player David Ferrer is competing in the Samsung-sponsored Mutua Madrid Open this weekend. In a presumably sponsored tweet before the event, Ferrer wrote about how much he loves Samsung's new...
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Who Are The Most Creative People In Social Media Marketing?
We're currently compiling our annual ranking of the most creative people in social media marketing.And we want your help.Creativity in social media marketing is completely different than traditional...
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Analyst: My Local AT&T Store Hasn't Sold A Single Facebook Phone (FB)
HTC's Facebook phone is not doing all that well, according to Arvind Bhatia of Sterne Agee.In a note, he says, "A local AT&T store we checked with told us it had not sold a single HTC First phone...
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Marc Andreessen Won't Abandon HP Because He's 'Stubborn' (HPQ)
Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen is a Silicon Valley golden boy, and a bona fide visionary by any definition. If he has a black mark to his name, it's this: he's been on HP's board of directors since...
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In This New Video, Google Shows How Glass Is REALLY Easy To Use (GOOG)
Google Glass, Google's computerized headset, is still only available to the lucky few who were invited to purchase the wearable computer. Those who've tried it have gone gaga for the device. Blogger...
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Facebook Ad Boss: Clicks And Engagement Are Not As Important As Exposure (FB,...
Facebook Ad Products Director Gokul Rajaram spoke on a panel today at TechCrunch Disrupt about the state of digital advertising.He was joined by Twitter Senior Director of Product Revenue Kevin Weil...
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AOL's Plan To Steal TV Ad Dollars Is Totally Working
AOL just got its online video programming included in Mediaocean, the software platform that media buyers use to plan TV budgets, Ad Age reports.We suggested last year that AOL's long-term vision for...
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Meet The 18-Year-Old Syrian Who Helped Hack The AP And Punk The Stock Market
Hackers calling themselves the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) are causing serious trouble around the world.The pro-Assad group scored its biggest hit last week by hacking the Associated Press twitter...
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It Sounds Like Google Glass Will Have Awful Battery Life (GOOG)
Google Glass, the computerized headset from Google, has pretty bad battery life, lasting only about five hours. That's according to a review posted today by Engadget editor Tim Stevens.Stevens tested...
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Budweiser's 'Buddy Cup' Will Get You Facebook Friends While You're Drunk
Budweiser has developed the ultimate social media drinking receptacle — cups that link drinkers on Facebook when they "chin-chin" them together.Launched in Brazil by Agencia Africa and the design...
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CHART OF THE DAY: This Is A Business That Will Die In Five Years, According...
BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins said, "In five years I don’t think there’ll be a reason to have a tablet anymore."He believes we're going to carry around a single device that powers all our other...
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The Only Smartphones Worth Buying Right Now [RANKED] (VZ, T, DT, S)
As the spring smartphone release schedule winds down, you now have a ton of great choices.Samsung, HTC, and BlackBerry all have brand new flagship devices worth considering. And there are plenty of...
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