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Apple iTunes Posts Record $1.9 Billion Quarter - Peter Kafka - Media - AllThingsD
Apple is really in the hardware business, not the software business — it just uses the sales of apps, music, movies, etc., to help sell gadgets. But boy does it sell a lot of software: iTunes sales came in at $1.9 billion last quarter, which puts the digital store at a run rate of $8 billion. That’s up 35 percent from a year ago, when iTunes did $1.4 billion.
iTunes dépasse le milliard de chiffre d’affaires en Europe | Belgium-iPhone
iTunes, le magasin en ligne du géant américain Apple a, pour la première fois de son existence, dépassé le cap du milliard d’euros de chiffre d’affaires en Europe lors du dernier exercice fiscal s’étendant de septembre 2010 à septembre 2011. C’est ce qui ressort des derniers comptes annuels publiés par la filiale européenne d’Apple basée au Luxembourg dont Le Soir a pu prendre connaissance. Au total, iTunes a engrangé des ventes à hauteur de 1,04 milliard d’euros durant cet exercice soit 41,4 % de plus qu’en 2009-2010.
Facebook: Opens Its First Data Center To The World
Not Facebook. Today, the company announced that it's building its own data center and releasing hardware specs under a program called the Open Compute Project.. Facebook has been leasing its data centers for the last 7 years, giving it no flexibility -- Facebook technical VP Jon Heiliger likened it to living in his first apartment, where the landlord said that he could paint the walls any color as long as it was Aztec White. For the last year or so, Facebook has been working on its own data center in Prineville, Oregon. The company says it has improved server efficiency 38% and lower costs by 24% -- and to prove it, the company is releasing its design to the public.
The courts will now decide whether Time Warner Cable Inc. can stream live programming from Viacom Inc. to a mobile device in a customer's home.
Time Warner Cable Asks Court to Rule on iPad App - WSJ.com
My colleague Thomas Husson wrote a report last year in which he looked at ” The Future Of Application Stores .” Overall, uptake of apps is limited: Only 15% of European smartphone owners report downloading an app on a monthly basis. By contrast, 64% of European iPhone users download apps on a monthly basis. Looking at what consumers are interested in most, Forrester's Technographics® data shows that games, music, weather, news, and social networking top the list for both iPhone and other smartphone users. Companies that want to develop a mobile strategy should begin with a solid understanding of how mobile-advanced their brand's consumers are and will be. Mobile Technographics® places consumers into groups based on their mobile phone usage.
The Data Digest: Which Type Of Apps Do Europeans Download Most? | Forrester Blogs
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Pizza Express lets customers pay via app | News | New Media Age
Gute Vorzeichen für die Online-Werbebranche: die Innovationsmarke Apple glaubt offensichtlich an die Wirkung von Internet-Werbung. Das US-Unternehmen steigerte in Deutschland seine Brutto-Ausgaben für Online-Werbung zum März deutlich. Mit Brutto-Ausgaben von 15,2 Millionen Euro führt Apple Deutschland nun die Liste der Top-Spender, analysiert von Nielsen, an. Zum Vergleich: im gesamten vergangenen Jahr ( von April 2010 bis einschließlich März 2011) beliefen sich die Brutto-Online-Ausgaben von Apple Deutschland auf nur 17,8 Millionen Euro. Auf Rang zwei und drei des aktuellen Rankings folgen Procter & Gamble (6,2 Millionen Euro) und Esprit (5,6 Millionen Euro), beides Unternehmen die schon seit längerer Zeit regelmäßig unter den Top-Display-Spendern zu finden sind.
W&V: Online-Werbung: Apple ist DeutschlandsTop-Spender
How Apple Lost the Next iPhone - Leak - Gizmodo
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Apple App Store Has Lost $450 Million To Piracy (Update), What A
Website Vimov says that Apple, Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad apps may create a billion dollar industry by 2012. Vimov writes , “if the iPad App Store were to be like the iPhone’s, then 40-60% of the sales are occurring internationally, so on average that figure could be become more than $272 million per year with the international launch.” January 13, 2010 Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and the companies that sell software for the iPhone and iPod touch at the App Store have lost over $450 million to piracy since the store opened in July 2008 according to an analysis by 24/7 Wall St. There have been over 3 billion applications downloaded since the App program began.
Charles Duhigg of the New York Times has written another extraordinary article about Apple, this time focused on the heroic lengths Apple has gone to to avoid paying taxes to governments around the world. All companies try to minimize taxes, obviously. And tech companies, it turns out, are ideally suited to skirting tax laws--because tech products can be "sold" from anywhere, regardless of where they're designed or made. But Apple appears to have been as spectacularly creative and successful in tax-avoidance as it has been in gadgets. Last year, for example, Apple's global cash tax rate was only 9.8%.
How Apple Dodges Billions In Taxes - Business Insider
Voici un schéma intéressant qui nous donne une lecture rapide et synthétique des chiffres les plus importants de l'app store. En plus des chiffres habituels sur le nombres d'applications téléchargées sur l'app store ou le nombre d'applications disponibles, on a quelques informations certes sommaires mais non moins intéressantes comme la part des applications payantes téléchargées ou la répartition des téléchargements entre iPhone et iPod Touch.
W&CIE - le blog : L'App Store en quelques chiffres
Has the New York Times finally started charging people to read its news online? Not yet. But it sure looks like the Times is charging online readers if you visit Apple’s iTunes Store, which is selling two different New York Times (NYT) iPhone apps at 99 cents a pop. The Times has nothing to do with either app, both of which are called the “New York Times Mobile Reader.” And both are supposed to do the same thing: Spit out the paper, along with other Web content like podcasts, in iPhone-friendly form. You’d think the Times would want Apple (AAPL) to remove the miniprograms, if only to protect the value of the paper’s own app , which is both free and very good.
Is That a Real New York Times App, or a Fake? Apple Doesn’t Want
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Presse et musique, contenus les plus recherchés sur l'iPad - Etreintes digitales
On en riait encore il y a quelques mois. " L' iPad sauverait la presse ? Mais pas plus que le CD-Rom, mon pauvre ami ! Ha, ha, ha ". Mais si on s'était trompés ? La presse et la musique , deux des industries culturelles les plus vivement remises en cause par le numérique, sont les contenus les plus consommés par les possesseurs d'iPad, selon une étude de l'institut Nielsen. Mieux, environ deux tiers des utilisateurs d'iPad ont déjà payé pour des contenus sur leur tablette numérique.TechCrunch claims to have proof that Apple plans to give its new iAds a "competitive advantage" over other mobile ad networks on the iPhone and iPad. The blog has obtained and subsequently published a slide that was attached to an email sent to an app developer from a Quattro Wireless sales rep. In it, Apple announces a "new program launching this month called ViP (Verification of iTunes Purchase) ... aimed at app developers who use iPhone ads to drive downloads and purchases of their own apps." The program, as Apple explains, will tie the ads directly into purchasing data from iTunes, letting app developers measure the conversion rate of ad impressions to downloads. As TechCrunch notes, other mobile ad networks (AdMob), also try to measure conversion rates, but they don't have access to the same iTunes data. As a result, "Apple is in a position to give advertisers much more detailed and accurate metrics."
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