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Apple is no longer the world's most profitable company. Instead, Exxon Mobil - the company bumped to second place in global profitability by Apple more than a year ago - has reclaimed its crown.

With shares of AAPL now trading at $440, Apple's market cap took a dive this week after a less-than-rousing earnings report from the most recent quarter.

As a result, Exxon Mobil is once again ...

Google have updated two of the company's popular free iOS applications, Google Currents and YouTube Capture, which are available in the App Store for downloading right now.

Google Currents is an application that can be used to get all of your news in one place. The update to Google Currents Adds a new Edition sidebar for getting to your editions within categories faster than you ever could before, a new ...

Although League of Legends is a game which has a hefty player base, Mac users have been noticeably absent since the developers ended up shutting down their Apple-only beta back in September of 2011. A group of developers worked on their own League of Legends client called “iLoL” but it had its own fair share of problems. Even though the Riot Games didn’t mention any dates in specific ...

Despite Apple trying to slowly wean itself from being dependent on Google for Maps, YouTube, Search and other fun stuff, Google has managed to become one of the top developers for iOS. In 2012, five of the six most used apps in the U.S. were made by Google and even Facebook just barely beat out Google Maps for the number one spot.

According to a new report from comScore, ...

Aspyr, the company behind several popular Mac games, recently announced that classic Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is now available on the Mac OS X. Available as a Steam Play title, an app in the Mac App Store, and in Aspyr’s GameAgent store, the company brings up that the critically acclaimed title has been completely overhauled for the Mac:



It is an old game but it’s also a ...

The U.S. International Trade Commission recently announced that it will be reviewing an administrative law judge’s initial determination that found Samsung to have violated a number of Apple patents. In the review notice, the ITC said it will both review ALJ Judge Thomas Pender’s findings of infringement and has sent two of the four asserted Apple patents back to the jurist for reconsideration.

Judge ...

The first footage of the “jOBS” biopic hit the web, giving viewers a peek of actors Ashton Kutcher and Josh Gad as Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. The clip, originally obtained by ETonline, shows Jobs (Kutcher) excitedly attempting to convey to Wozniak (Gad) how important his developed operating system is.

In the clip, Woz remains unconvinced, thinking that nobody would ...

The popular game developer, Electronic Arts, recently announced that users would be able to download and test an early alpha of its popular Origin gaming software for Mac. According to a post on the Origin blog, only a few thousand players in North America and the United Kingdom will be able to download the app at this stage to help test it out. The following was announced by EA:



The ...

Apple have launched a new “Get Stuff Done” promotional sale in the Mac App Store on Thursday, offering some popular Mac OS X applications for discounted prices for a limited time. The promotional sale will last three weeks total, and there are three sections to the promotional sale that will last a week each.

Today, the first section of the promotional sale has launched. It is called “Prioritize” ...

Apple has been on quite the role with OS X betas and the Cupertino California company seems to be at it again. Build 12D58 of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3 was released to developers earlier today, marking the eight beta iteration of the newest version of Mountain Lion. OS X 10.8.3 was first seeded to developers in November and has been in development since.

The current build (Build ...

According to a new federal policy in the United States that is effective starting Saturday, it will become illegal for certain mobile phone owners to unlock their devices for use on other carriers unless specifically authorized by their carriers. The policy applies to newly purchased devices but not to legacy devices purchased prior to that date. As noted by Tech News Daily:



Unlocking devices allows ...