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I’m the worst kind of person. Despite owning Star Wars in a few different forms, I’m genuinely excited for the Blu-Ray “Star Wars: The Complete Saga” that was announced last year at the Star Wars Celebration expo. And I’ll probably buy it. If you’re like me, Amazon has finally given us a [...]

Apple’s got a lot of cash on hand – some $50 billion in liquid funds. And that number is expected to inflate to $70 billion by the end of 2011 according to the Wall Street Journal. Even for a Fortune 500 company, that’s a lot of money to have in [...]

Apple boss Steve Jobs is taking another leave of absence from the company to focus on his health. Timothy Cook, Apple’s chief operating officer, will take over the company’s day-to-day operations as he’s done in the past while Jobs was on medical leave, however Jobs will remain CEO while he [...]

Twitter’s scheme to make money thus far has been offering “promoted tweets” where companies can pay to get certain tweets elevated in certain popular hashtags (#bpsucks or #golakers are examples of hashtags, you know what this is). Now, the folks at HP have taken a pretty popular one, #apple! Th [...]

Tomorrow, Steve Jobs will unveil that Beatles music are coming to iTunes. That’s the official word from respected newspaper The Wall Street Journal, who cites inside sources and says that the deal is done between the Beatles estate, EMI Records, and Apple. This is expected to be what the big [...]

The company that brought you the modern mobile phone, Motorola, will be splitting into two seperate and unrelated companies. After being announced back in February, Motorola co-CEO Greg Brown confirmed to investors that the company will split into two companies, and now, we even know the names of the two [...]

Last week Friday, news broke that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer would be shedding an incredible 75 million of his Microsoft shares, netting the notable CEO $1.9 billion. There has been a lot of speculation as to the reason. Is he leaving the company? Is he buying the Sacramento Kings NBA [...]

Rumors have been swirling for the past couple of days that Apple might be in talks with top executives at European music share site Spotify, in an attempt to purchase the service. This would not be the first music site Apple has bought out.

Great Britain’s government is set to roll out a plan that would have all internet and cell phone carriers to record and log every call, email or website visit that goes on in the United Kingdom. The data would be stored for at least a year in a project that [...]

Oh dear. Various reports from former Apple employees have painted Steve Jobs has having a bit of an ego and a temper, but did Jobs recently get into an altercation with Japanese airport security. A Japanese tabloid is reporting that Jobs was stopped from bringing ninja stars onboard his private [...]