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Roku to Raise as Much as $50 Million
Photograph: RokuRoku devices can give subscribers access to a TV version of Rovio's Angry Birds game. Roku’s sales tripled to $100 million last year — in part because it bought radio and billboard...
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The Temptation of Tim: What Does Dividend Say About Apple’s Future?
Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Apple CEO Tim Cook's decision to offer a dividend will cost the company about $10 billion a year. Steve Jobs didn’t spend much time worrying about...
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PayPal Rival WePay Raises $10M
Photograph by David Paul Morris/BloombergBill Clerico, seen here in July 2011, is CEO of WePay, which just raised $10 million. Back in his days at Boston College, Bill Clerico knew how to stand out in...
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Motorola’s History Lesson for Google
Photograph by Bettmann/CorbisMotorola Vice President John F. Mitchell shows off the DynaTAC portable radio telephone in New York City in 1973. (This blog was corrected. An earlier version misattributed...
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Ooyala Raises $35 Million as It Picks Up the Pace in Digital Video
Courtesy OoyalaThere's no shortage of athleticism on Ooyala's team, which includes (left to right) Sean Knapp, Bismarck Lepe, Jay Fulcher and Belsasar Lepe. (Updated to correct amount raised by Ooyala...
View ArticleApple Buys More Than Airtime With Latest Ad
When Apple’s “Think Different” campaign came out in 1997, the ads didn’t sell a specific product, but an idea: The company wanted to change the world, just like Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr....
View ArticleHow Apple’s TV Ads Scored vs. Samsung, Microsoft
Turn on the TV nowadays and it’s hard to avoid the flurry of commercials touting the latest, supposedly greatest mobile devices. So which ads are catching the eyes of consumers? Ace Metrix says it...
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Live From the Apple IPhone Event
Photograph by Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesApple unveils the iPhone 5C, a plastic model that comes in various colors, along with the iPhone 5S. Updates from the Apple event in Cupertino, California, are...
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Live From the Apple IPad Event
Photograph by Noah Berger/BloombergApple CEO Tim Cook kicked off the iPad event in San Francisco. Updates from the Apple event in San Francisco are in Pacific Time. 11:23 a.m. That’s a wrap. My...
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How to Sell Playing Cards, Apple-Style
Robert Padbury via KickstarterA former Apple designer is crowdfunding his Atelier Playing Cards.Apple’s product design team has specialized in making complex things — digital music, mobile phones,...
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