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Apple, by now, has passed the amazing $100 billion mark in near-term and long-term cash and equivalents. I thought it would be fun to take some guesses as to what Apple might do with all of it. The easiest guess is they won’t do anything. The company was very close to going bankrupt in 1997 [...]

Apple’s Massive Numbers and Some Context Of all the great nuggets pulled off the web by MG Siegler yesterday regarding Apple’s earnings call, my favorite is this one: Apple’s profit last quarter was $3 billion more than all of Hollywood’s gross box office receipts for all of last year, notes Eric Spiegelman via Anthony De Rosa. So… Apple [...]

[My apologies to anyone who read the oddly posted version yesterday. It's gone now. Some weird WordPress hiccup. Below is the actually completed version I meant to publish.] — Here’s the question that is going to screw Chris Dodd: who do you trust more, the tech industry or Hollywood? Once upon a time, Americans spent [...]

Dodd Calls for Hollywood and Silicon Valley to Meet I really hope Chris Dodd does what he says and sits down with the tech industry. And I really hope that this statement does not indicate that Chris Dodd and the rest of those backing PIPA and SOPA think that they would have been more successful [...]

How in the world is Apple going to keep textbooks up-to-date and not lose your highlighting and note positions? Did Apple come up with some magical new way of marking the beginning and end of the highlight area? The obvious way is to store the start character position and length (or end character position). But [...]