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A Chinese company that claims it owns the rights to the iPad name reportedly refused to settle its claims against Apple for $16 million. The company, Shenzhen Proview Technology, was apparently offered $16 million by representatives of Apple to drop its challenge of Apple’s right to use the iPad trademark in China.
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Speculation about Apple producing a television set that will revolutionize how we watch entertainment at home has been percolating for months, as has the arrival time for the super set. Initially, it was predicted to arrive in time for the 2011 holiday season; then it was going to share the stage with the new iPad in 2012; and when that didn’t happen, it was pushed to sometime in 2012 or the first half of 2013.
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Will Apple become a wireless service provider? Absolutely, contends Whitey Bluestein, writer of GigaOm’s Apple blog. But that prediction has been met with widespread disagreement as well as some support. In his blog, Bluestein outlined what he believes will be Apple’s roadmap for getting into the wireless business. First, it will start selling data packages for the iPad.
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Without Steve Jobs, Apple will fall from greatness, according to Forrester Research CEO George Colony. “Apple’s momentum will carry it for 24-48 months,” he wrote recently in his blog. “But without the arrival of a new charismatic leader,” he continued, “it will move from being a great company to being a good company, with a commensurate step down in revenue growth and product innovation.”
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Apple once again blasted Wall Street’s — and its own — predictions on its financial performance for the March quarter of this year. The company announced Tuesday that it raked in $39.2 billion in revenue during the period, which is Apple’s second fiscal quarter. That’s more than a 58 percent increase over the same period a year ago, when revenues were $24.7 billion.
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