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December 31, 2006

Low-Cost Laptop Could Transform Learning (AP)

Filed under: Apple — Yahoo! Finance: AAPL News @ 9:17 pm
Forget windows, folders and boxes that pop up with text. When students in Thailand, Libya and other developing countries get their $150 computers from the One Laptop Per Child project in 2007, their experience will be unlike anything on standard PCs.

Sitting Under the Apple Tree (SeekingAlpha)

Filed under: Apple — Yahoo! Finance: AAPL News @ 1:53 pm
Phil Davis submits: We often discuss gravity in relation to the stock market in general but, in honor of Sir Isaac Newton I think it is apropos to discuss gravity as it relates to one particular stock -- Apple.

December 30, 2006

The Apple Restatement: Much Ado About (almost) Nothing (SeekingAlpha)

Filed under: Apple — Yahoo! Finance: AAPL News @ 3:08 pm
Carl Howe submits: Yesterday's Wall Street Journal has a summarization of Apple's filing to the SEC and restatement of three years of earnings. Here's the story straight out of the SEC 10-K filing: The Company has recorded additional non-cash stock-based compensation expense and related tax effects with regard to past stock option grants, [...]

Apple Faces Suit Over iPod-iTunes Link (AP)

Filed under: Apple — Yahoo! Finance: AAPL News @ 7:22 am
As if its options woes weren't trouble enough, Apple Computer Inc. said Friday it is facing several federal lawsuits, including one alleging the company created an illegal monopoly by tying iTunes music and video sales to its market-leading iPod portable players.

Sneak Peek: Dennis Kneale On Digital Convergence (at Forbes.com)

Filed under: Apple — Yahoo! Finance: AAPL News @ 6:00 am

December 29, 2006

Apple Faces Suit Over IPod-ITunes Link (AP)

Filed under: Apple — Yahoo! Finance: AAPL News @ 9:36 pm
As if its options woes weren't trouble enough, Apple Computer Inc. said Friday it is facing several federal lawsuits, including one alleging the company created an illegal monopoly by tying iTunes music and video sales to its market-leading iPod portable players.

[$$] Apple, Goodyear Each Climb 4.9% (at The Wall Street Journal Online)

Filed under: Apple — Yahoo! Finance: AAPL News @ 8:49 pm

Top Ten: The week’s top news and analysis, Dec. 25-29 (at MarketWatch)

Filed under: Apple — Yahoo! Finance: AAPL News @ 7:37 pm
Particularly in hindsight, the Santa Claus rally of 2006 was something to write home about, bookending Christmas itself with heaping sleighloads of market cheer delivered to Wall Street early, often and with uncommon generosity.

Wall Street Poised For Milder Gains After Banner Year (at Forbes.com)

Filed under: Apple — Yahoo! Finance: AAPL News @ 7:17 pm

Apple Says Options Probe Clears Execs (AP)

Filed under: Apple — Yahoo! Finance: AAPL News @ 6:07 pm
Apple Computer Inc. gave the most detailed account yet of its stock-option practices Friday, clearing CEO Steve Jobs and other current executives of any misconduct. Yet it still isn't clear who was responsible and how much Jobs was involved.
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