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Apple no longer touts Maps app as 'most powerful'
Los Angeles Times
The change, first noted by German website iDaily.de, follows last week's rare move by Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook, who apologized to users of the new app that came with an operating system upgrade. Though the new Maps is pretty to look at, Apple ...
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AmEx to refund $85 million to customers
CNN
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Monday that American Express (AXP, Fortune 500) subsidiaries illegally charged late fees, deceived customers by promising non-existent money rewards, and discriminated against new applicants over the ... In ...
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Apple Warranty Ads Should Be Examined in EU, Reding Says
Businessweek
EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding wrote to member countries to ask them to check whether Apple retailers failed to advertise buyers' right to a minimum two-year warranty for products such as the iPhone and the iPad tablet computer. "Apple ... The ...
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German Stocks Rise After Spanish Bank Stress-Test Results
Businessweek
The benchmark has rallied 23 percent from this year's low on June 5 as European Central Bank policy makers approved an unlimited bond-buying program and the U.S. Federal Reserve started a third round of asset purchases. The broader HDAX Index also ...
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Tablets, Smartphones Spur Mobile News Consumption
PC Magazine
More than 20 percent of adults now own a tablet computer, double the number just a year ago, and smartphone ownership rose nine points to 44 percent. In total, half of Americans now have mobile Internet access. And most of them take advantage of it, as ...
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IPhone 5 WiFi bug leads to giant cellular data overages
CNNMoney
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Scores of iPhone 5 users hit Apple's support forums over the past week to exchange anecdotal reports on a scary bug: Their phones appeared to be sucking down cellular data even when they were connected to a Wi-Fi network ...
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Greek Budget Predicts Economy Will Shrink for Sixth Year
Businessweek
Greece's economy will contract for a sixth year in 2013 as the government prepares further cuts to pensions, wages and social benefits to meet the terms of its bailout packages. Gross domestic product will shrink 3.8 percent next year after contracting ...
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Year End Tax Planning – Part One – Individual
NASDAQ
Tax planning this year, you have got to be kidding me! Fiscal cliff, mandated cuts and election uncertainty - how do you plan for that? Unless Congress acts, tax rates will go up next year, many more individuals will be snared by the alternative ...
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Samsung Tablets and Peel TV Second Screen App to Add Interactivity to ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
As the candidates take center stage on live TV beginning on Oct. 3, viewers using the Peel Smart Remote app on the Samsung GALAXY Tab 7.0 Plus, Tab 7.7, Tab 2 7.0, Tab 2 10.1 or Note 10.1 with built-in IR blaster will able to use the Peel Smart Remote ...
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Apple's India plans have bureaucratic hurdles
ZDNet
"I love India but I believe Apple has some higher potential in the intermediate time in some other countries. We have a business there and the business is growing, but the sort of the multilayer distribution there really adds to the cost of getting ...
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Apple apparently fixes bug that stifled iOS app downloads
CNET
Yesterday, people posting in Apple's Support Communities and elsewhere started complaining that they couldn't get past the new Terms & Conditions screen. Recently updated, this screen requires iOS users to agree to Apple's lengthy list of service ...
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Will Nokia, Microsoft Take Advantage of Apple's Map Recommendation?
Forbes
There is no doubt that Samsung would take advantage of the situation. The company is known for producing ads that point out the differences between the Galaxy S line of smartphones and the iPhone. Samsung's latest anti-Apple campaign seems to be ...
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European Central Bank Faces a Test of Its Credibility
New York Times
Mario Draghi, the European Central Bank president, seemed to borrow from the Cold War lexicon of deterrence in July when he told financial markets that the E.C.B. would do "whatever it takes to preserve the euro. And believe me, it will be enough ...
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Apple Giveth, and Apple Can Taketh, Too
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Some have already surmised that the new iPhone could move the needle on GDP. Could Apple's influence extend to the September sales data some retailers will report later this week? Maybe J.P. Morgan sa ys. But it might not be quite as rosy for the ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Is Apple Spending More Time on Litigation Than Innovation?
Forbes
But when the company that makes a mistake enjoys a reputation for innovation and superb product quality like Apple, business strategists begin to wonder whether the mistake is just the result of poor judgment or a change in business priorities that may ...
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Growth Worries Flare in Europe, Asia
Fox Business
Factory output in Europe and Asia wilted again in September, flagging a return to recession for the euro zone and a seventh straight quarter of slowing growth in China, business surveys showed on Monday. The data showed companies across the world have ...
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Apple rumored to send out 'iPad mini' event invitations on Oct. 10
Apple Insider
If Apple were to follow recent launch schedules as it has done with the iPhone 5 and new iPad, the so-called "iPad mini" could then go on sale on Friday, Oct. 26. Monday's rumor comes from an unidentified "major Apple investor" who spoke with Elmer ...
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Bank Of America: Huge Value
Seeking Alpha
Buffett bought $5 billion worth of Bank of America last year. Does that make ... The kind of risks faced by banks today are underscored by Bank of America, which has agreed to pay $2.43 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by former Merrill Lynch ...
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UAE's First Gulf Bank launches five-year $650 million bond
Fox Business
DUBAI – Abu Dhabi-listed First Gulf Bank launched a $650 million five-year bond on Monday, the first major Gulf borrower to issue since the traditional summer lull, taking advantage of healthy investor demand for regional debt. The bond launched ...
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Apple's Map Mess Won't Slow iPhone Sales
All Things Digital
Those four stores were located in smaller cities, and the few iPhone 5 units they had were for Sprint. His take on Apple's mapping misstep? It's not causing much user backlash. "Demand remains high," Munster explained. "The bottom line is that ...
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iPhone down, Galaxy next? Sharp starts making 5″ HD smartphone screens
VentureBeat
Where Sharp will use the 5-inch screens is not clear, but Samsung would clearly be a valuable client as the largest manufacturer of Android-based phones. And the pixel density would set any clients up well for competition with Apple's iPhone, beating ...
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TEXT-Fitch cuts Maine Bond Bank general resolution bonds to 'AA-'
Reuters
Oct 1 - Fitch Ratings has downgraded the rating on the following bonds of the Maine Municipal Bond Bank to 'AA-'from 'AAA': --$1.4 billion outstanding General Resolution bonds The rating has been removed from Rating Watch Negative and assigned a ...
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Award-Winning Chase Mobile® App Now Available for Windows® Phone
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
With the addition of the Chase Mobile app for Windows Phone, Chase mobile banking is now available to Chase customers using all major mobile platforms, including iPad®, iPhone®, iPod Touch®, AndroidTM, BlackBerry® and Kindle Fire. "The Windows Phone ...
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Hewlett-Packard announces new tablet aimed at enterprise customers
San Jose Mercury News
1 personal computer maker, has struggled to break into the mobile-device market that has made Apple (AAPL) the most valuable company in the United States. HP attempted to jump into the field with its $1.2 billion purchase of Sunnyvale-based Palm in ...
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Apple's Top 20 Public Apologies
InformationWeek
However, one year does not define a trend, and Cook could end up making fewer apologies after the inevitable regime change hiccups get ironed out. Also, apologies aren't necessarily a bad thing--they could reflect a growing willingness among Apple's ...
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