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Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook testified Tuesday at a Senate hearing that largely probed how Apple uses Irish subsidiaries to allegedly shelter billions of dollars in income from U.S. taxes.

Cook, however, strongly defended Apple's tax practices. "We pay all the taxes we owe — every single dollar," Cook told members of the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. "We not only comply with the laws but we comply with the spirit ...

Notwithstanding the beating Apple has endured on Wall Street over the last eight months, there has been virtually no impact on the perceived value of the Apple brand.

In fact, it's never been stronger.

Besting fellow brand heavyweights like Coca-Cola and McDonalds, Apple once again received top honors as the world's most valuable brand, according to BrandZ.



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Although Apple’s 15’’ MacBook Pro was the first consumer notebook that gained a Retina-level display (nearly a year ago), it isn’t the only such offering anymore. Google’s Chromebook Pixel with its 12.85’’ 2560x1700 display and Toshiba’s Kirabook with 2560x1440 220 PPI display have joined the market in recent months. Seeking to raise the ante on Retina displays, Samsung and Sharp have both introduced new high-resolution ...

In response to the devastating tornado that hit Oklahoma City recently, AT&T announced that it will be waiving all overage charges for those affected through June 30.

For those of you who aren’t fully aware of what’s been going on, on Monday afternoon local time, Oklahoma City saw a large tornado system rip through parts of the city and surrounding areas. The whole catastrophe left many buildings flattened and ...

As part of a special media event, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer recently unveiled major changes to photo management and sharing service Flickr. The changes include full resolution image support, 1 Terabyte of storage for each user, and a revamped user interface. The announcement was nearly overshadowed by news of Yahoo’s $1.1 billion Tumblr acquisition and the company’s move into a historic Times Square building the New York Times ...

Shortly after Apple published the full testimony which CEO Tim Cook plans to give to the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in the U.S. Senate, the government body issued its own findings on the company’s offshore tax practices, saying subsidiaries were used to purposefully avoid paying billions of dollars in domestic taxes. According to the subcommittee’s report, Apple moved billions in profits out of the U.S. to affiliate corporations, such as Apple Operations International ...

According to the latest data from NPD Group, domestic sales of Mac computers were about even year over year in the month of April. This is seen as a potentially positive sign for Apple based on Gene Munster’s interpretation. Munster’s forecast called for total worldwide Mac sales for the June quarter to be down about 5% year over year.

Due to the fact that the NPD Group tracks domestic ...

In an effort to improve the standing of its smartphone lineup against the iPhone, Samsung is turning to third-party developers for help. The South Korean tech giant is offering $800,000 in prize money for Galaxy-specific apps. Samsung’s global developer competition will see 10 winners with the prize money distributed among them. According to The Wall Street Journal, the company is seemingly interested in apps that ...

Apple is pulling out all the stops in India to attract new customers to the iOS ecosystem in hopes they will never leave.

For the better part of two years now, the headlines have consistently reflected how India will one day prove to be a huge market for Apple's iPhone and the smartphone industry at large. Just last month, The Times of India reported that Apple will have a banner year in India over the next twelve ...

Verizon has Monday announced that they have turned on 4G LTE cellular coverage for six new locations in the United States. Verizon is the leader of 4G LTE coverage in the United States as competing cellular carriers like AT&T, Sprint, and T-mobile lag behind slowly trying to catch up.

The six new locations that now have access to Verizon’s 4G LTE network are:

• Adrian, Michigan
• Corbin,

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AT&T in November of last year began enabling FaceTime over cellular for iPhones running iOS 6 that had the ability to connect to 4G LTE, in other words, the iPhone 5. It was supposed to be limited to tiered data plans and shared data plans only.

Monday AT&T has revealed to The Verge that they will be enabling FaceTime over cellular for everyone and anyone, as long as they have an iOS 6 device. The new system will ...