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In the ongoing battle between Apple and Amazon over the “app store” title, Cupertino is now demanding that Amazon produce an executive who will testify about why Amazon dropped the “for Android” tag from its full store name. As GigaOM first reported, last week’s court filings focuses on the issue of “consumer confusion,” and follows Continue Reading →

Mobile and network security company AuthenTec Inc announced this morning that it has been acquired by Apple for $8 a share, which equates to $356 million (in cash). News of the deal comes from a 8-K filed by AuthenTec, which says that it has entered an Intellectual Property and Technology Agreement with Apple yesterday, allowing Continue Reading →

Since it first debuted its new Surface tablet, Microsoft has insisted that the device will not alienate its longtime PC manufacturing partners. The party line: By developing internally the tablet it evidently didn’t trust its partners to build, Microsoft isn’t stepping between them and their customers, it’s simply providing a reference design meant to guide Continue Reading →

Here come some more juicy tidbits from recently unsealed documents tied to the upcoming Apple vs. Samsung extravaganza! From rejected settlement offers to muscle flexing on both sides, things are starting to heat up in San Jose, California. In the latest round of documents examined by All Things D, a few new items of interest Continue Reading →

If you frequent Apple‘s iOS App Store or Google‘s Play Android marketplace, then you’re probably used to being able to pick up app for 99 cents, but this won’t be the case in Microsoft‘s Windows 8 App store. Microsoft has outlined how developers can make money from their apps using the Windows Store in a Continue Reading →

Singapore-headquartered Insync has rolled out a very useful new service for those who spend a lot of time grabbing documents from Gmail or Google-hosted email. Launched today, Insync for Gmail is a super simple way of managing attachments by storing them in Google Drive and Dropbox. It’s been six months since we last caught up Continue Reading →

While Facebook’s earnings call was full of revenue generating strategies, including an increase in sponsored stories, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stressed the company’s upcoming mobile products and integration. “We will develop new products, particularly in mobile,” Sandberg said as she was listing other product and revenue plans. Facebook’s earnings barely matched Continue Reading →

Although the iPhone has already proven itself to be an extremely useful little device, Apple has some even bigger plans for its popular smartphone in mind: Basically, it wants the iPhone to be the central remote control for every key gadget and appliance in users’ homes. Patently Apple has found a new patent application filed Continue Reading →

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, COO Sheryl Sandberg and CFO David Ebersman hosted their first earnings call early Thursday evening. The three executives spoke primarily about the company’s advertising products, which accounted for 86% of its revenue in the second quarter. Zuckerberg emphasized the need to make ads more social — most ads on Facebook right Continue Reading →

Despite some very clever speculation in Slate recently about Amazon’s same-day delivery plans, that particular dream may go unfulfilled for most of us. At least, if Amazon CFO Tom Szkutak has anything to say about. Szkutzk, speaking today during Amazon’s conference call to discuss earnings, was asked directly about his company’s same-day delivery ambitions. The Continue Reading →