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Apple offers early warning sign to bulls

Traders are looking to the US’s largest market value company as an indicator, and expected volatility suggests the easy part of the rally is over

Apple threat to Proview over iPad dispute

The US group’s threat over the trademark dispute comes as a court in China orders a large retailer to stop sales of the gadget

Apple complains to EU over Motorola patents

The move comes days after antitrust regulators said they were concerned that Google might use patents acquired with the purchase of Motorola Mobility to limit competition

Week in review: Apple’s patent dispute

Proview saw some first success as industry and commerce officials in one Chinese city stopped retailers from selling the device

Google and Apple lower ad costs

The groups reduce minimum price for mobile advertising to encourage more marketers and application developers to use their technologies

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Timeline: Steve Jobs

The FT looks at key moments in the career of Apple’s founder and former chief executive

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Apple has incentive to worry about workers’ rights

Without the iPhone and iPad, it would be a struggling computer maker trying to fill the gap left by shrinking iPod sales

Apple: shares are strange fruit

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Beyond the hype, Apple is simply a cool gadget maker. Not only does coolness never last, but successful products always become commoditised

Apple’s $100bn reserve ripe for spending

While the sum may be enough to buy Facebook, the favourite option among analysts and investors is to start paying dividends to shareholders

Apple looks to China’s ‘staggering potential’

Chief executive picks out the country as having the most potential for growth but the company may have a hard time fulfilling demand

Apple: low-hanging fruit

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That it can harvest accelerating economies of scale even at its current preposterous size suggests that we have not seen peak profitability

Apple still reigns but peers narrowing gap

Unlike in 2010, it is harder to call the personal tech winners of 2011, with Apple happy with updates and the competition still striving to catch up, writes Chris Nuttall

Apple: board ponders fruitful transition

They will have to decide how much freedom to give the new chief executive, who has huge shoes to fill as he manages the transition to slower growth

Apple: bite taken out of share price

Sales and profits were a few per cent lower than what Wall Street had pencilled in and stock prices react to performance relative to expectations

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