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Ever wondered what it’s going to cost Apple to bring your iCloud dreams to life? Well, according to the New York Post, Apple is paying the record labels a combined total of around $150 million for the rights to stream their music through the iCloud service – add that to the price of its new North Carolina data center and you have a pretty hefty sum.

Apple finalized its iCloud negotiations earlier this week after it struck a deal with Universal Music Group – the last of the four major record labels to sign up to the iCloud service. It has now also secured deals with the corresponding publishers just in time for its unveiling – and possible launch – at WWDC on Monday…(…)
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written by pmwalters \\ tags: after-it-struck, apple, billion-data, carolina, cloud, icloud, labels, marketing, rights, streaming, universal-music

When Sony is not suing Geohot or trying to get their network back on its feet, their marketing department is hard at work trying to get Apple users to check out what Sony has to offer. As a matter of fact Sony wants Apple users to check them out so bad, that it kinda pretends it is Apple.

Don’t believe me? Look at this ad in the image above. It’s an ad served by Google for Sony. The title of the ad: “Apple”. The description of the ad does mention it’s for Sony, but it is still very confusing, and I even doubt Google authorizes those misleading ads… (…)
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written by iqu \\ tags: ads, apple, does-mention, download, facebook, hard-at-work, iphone news, marketing, misleading-ads, phone-download, read-the-rest, rest, sony, still-very, their-marketing

In Apple’s Q1 earnings call, the company released very impressive numbers for its sales in the first three months of 2011. The iPhone’s fastest growing market is China, with an over 250% increase in iPhone sales since this time last year.

China is a major hub for technology and smartphone innovation, and most iPhone knockoffs are Chinese-made. 10% of Apple’s revenue comes from China (to the tune of about $5 billion). The iPhone is doing extremely well; now accounting for 8.3% of China’s 850 million mobile customers.(…)
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written by wmbanku \\ tags: apple, china, facebook, fake, fastest, iphone, iphone 4, marketing, now-accounting, released-very, revenue-comes, smartphone, three-months, time, wifi

Oh man, is this the new version of Symbian? If so, it looks magical.

[Thanks, Jaris]

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written by raymoayr001 \\ tags: app, espn, est, friend-via, iphone, marketing, new-version, ovi, ovi store, photoshop

Apple continues their “If You Don’t Have an iPhone” marketing campaign with the latest ad focusing on Apple’s iOS online multiplayer social gaming network, Game Center.

The short 30 second advertisement opens up by showcasing the huge library of Games available in the App Store, such as Infinity Blade and then shows the capabilities of Game Center, including friends requests, starting a multiplayer game through matchmaking, tracking achievements, and comparing high scores on a leader board.

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written by Script Alert \\ tags: ads, app store, apple, capabilities, highlights, huge-library, iphone news, marketing, phone-download, social-gaming, video