"Are Apple users savvier shoppers? iOS devices account for disproportionate number of Black Friday searches" MarketWatch 11:10 AM
"Black Friday: Shoppers Snap Up Deals and Apple iPads" TheStreet 11:14 AM
"Rare iPad discounts result in a scramble for shoppers" St. Paul Pioneer Press [Free Registration Required] 6:16 PM
"E-Commerce Sales Far Higher for iOS Shoppers Versus Android" WSJ Blogs 11:42 AM
"Apple Objects to Monitor's Fees in E-Books Antitrust Case" ["'Of all all known past Apple matters,' no lawyer has had a higher rate than Michael Bromwich's proposed hourly fee of $1,100, the world's most valuable technology company said in a Nov. 27 filing in federal court in Manhattan. ... Bromwich's invoice for his first two weeks of work was $138,432, the equivalent of 75 percent of a federal judge's annual salary, Apple said in its filing, which described the administrative surcharge as 'unprecedented in Apple's experience.'"] Bloomberg 7:42 AM
"Apple Not Impressed That Court-Appointed E-Book Compliance Monitor Made $138,432 In First Two Weeks" TechCrunch 7:42 AM
"Apple to judge: You and your antitrust monitor are way out of line/The $138,432 he charged for his first two weeks on the job is the least of Apple's objections." Fortune 11:10 AM
"Apple gripes about e-books antitrust monitor: The tech giant and its court-appointed antitrust monitor are having a hard time seeing eye to eye. Apple is objecting to the lawyer's 'excessive fees' and 'inappropriate manner.'" CNET News 6:16 PM
"Apple Combats Michael Bromwich's Beastly Legal Bill In Brand New Filing" AppAdvice 7:45 AM
"Apple Doesn't Want to Pay the Feds' E-Book Lawyer $70,000 a Week" AllThingsD 10:42 AM
"Apple Spends Half a Billion on iPhone 6's Rumoured Sapphire Glass Feature: The iPhone 6 could feature sapphire glass display that doesn't scratch even if concrete is rubbed on it, as Apple put half a billion dollars on the technology." International Business Times 7:48 AM
"Apple allegedly spent $578 million to speed up development of iPhone 6 sapphire display" Macworld UK 7:58 AM
"Apple Retreats to the Suburbs: Apple Inc.'s stunning new Campus 2 in Cupertino, California, will be one of Steve Jobs' lasting legacies when completed in 2015. For better or worse, he was thinking differently to the end, striving for geographic self-sufficiency even as many other high-technology enterprises across the country were starting to return to city life. Will this approach, and the complex that embodies it, renew Apple's culture of excellence or retard it?" Bloomberg 9:47 AM
"Time to Think of Apple as a Global Luxury Brand" TheStreet 10:17 AM
"Apple Hit With Yet Another Patent-Infringement Lawsuit" Wall St. Cheat Sheet 4:42 PM
"Apple's purchase of PrimeSense: Opens up new computing experiences – and enterprise solutions" Forrester 8:24 AM
"Tablets outdo phones when closing holiday-shopping deals: For online shopping, smartphones are good for browsing but tablets are used more when it's time to make a purchase. Also, iOS outdoes Android." CNET News 10:17 AM
"Black Friday sales up 7%, mobile up 36% — and iPhone driving 450% more sales than Android" VentureBeat 2:21 PM
"Online Thanksgiving sales top $1 billion for the first time" MarketWatch 3:12 PM
"Apple Stresses 'Value' Not Cash For Black Friday Discounts" Forbes 7:43 AM
"Yep, It's Looking Like an iPad Christmas" AllThingsD 8:19 AM
"Apple on Black Friday: It's all in the cards" Macworld 11:10 AM
"Apple's Black Friday Offering Might Be Vouchers In The US But Over Here In Europe It's Cash Off" Forbes 8:23 AM
"Black Friday Shoppers Have Spoken: Walmart Delivers Biggest Shopping Day of the Season" ["From coast to coast, yesterday's top sellers at Walmart – in stores and online – were big screen televisions, the iPad mini, laptops, XBOX ONE, PS4 and Call of Duty Ghosts."] Walmart 8:20 AM
"Apple Developers Earn Five Times the Revenue Per Download of Android Developers" Minyanville 10:17 AM
"Apple iOS Developers Are Richer than Android Developers, iOS Devs Earn Five Times the Revenue" International Business Times 9:27 PM
"Amid Some Fistfights, Walmart Sells 1.4M Tablets On Thanksgiving, iPad Mini A Top Seller" TechCrunch 8:20 AM
"V3 announces winners of Technology Awards 2013" V3 11:10 AM
"Top 10 smartphones of 2013: Apple, Samsung and Nokia battle it out" V3 8:14 AM
"Apple Won 76% of Japan October Smartphone Sales, Kantar Says" Bloomberg 8:21 AM
"Airline pilots get to ditch heavy flight manuals for tablet devices: With the holiday travel season in full swing, airline pilots used to lugging heavy bags full of paper flight manuals can finally take a load off — thanks to the iPad and other tablet devices." New York Post 9:07 PM
"Tech Time Warp of the Week: 30 Years of Apple Ads, 1984 to the Present" Wired Magazine 8:06 AM
"Apple TV Unboxed and Ahead of the Curve" Yanko Design 8:22 AM
"SF sees highest crime rate since 2008" ["Police say the insatiable market for technology also spills over into the criminal arena: smartphone thefts appear to spike whenever a new device is introduced, such as Apple's iPhone 5C in September."] San Francisco Business Times 7:47 AM
"Is Apple To Blame For Biggest San Francisco Crime Spike Since 2008?" Cult of Mac 7:47 AM
"Microsoft guns for Apple and Google in latest ads" DailyBits 7:43 AM
"Leica Collaborates With Apple Designer" TheStreet 8:05 AM
"Black Friday/Cyber Monday Deals! Absolutely the best we've ever had!" MacPhun 7:05 AM
"Only today, Black Friday 2013, Tension Software offers a discount of 50% on many native Mac OS X applications via Esellerate or at the App Store." Tension Software 7:04 AM
"Apple's Offers Gift Cards for Black Friday -$75 w/iPad Air, $150 w/MacBook, $50 w/iPod, Accessories" The Mac Observer 7:04 AM
"Mobee Magic Charger for Apple Magic Mouse – Review" Beatweek Magazine 4:39 PM
"Review: Apricorn's Aegis 3.0 portable drive offers an SSD option for better performance" Macworld 7:59 AM
"Spark Digital microphone review: Cool mic hampered by ungainly stand" Macworld 10:41 AM
"Jony Ive and the myth of tormented genius: Nice, talented guy makes good - what kind of biography is this, anyway?" Macworld UK 7:58 AM
iPad/iPhone/iPod touch Apps
"'Strike Force Heroes: Extraction' Review - G.I. Just One More Go" Touch Arcade 9:47 AM
"'Lords Of Waterdeep' Review - A Great Conversion Of An Excellent Board Game" Touch Arcade 11:43 AM
"The Wolf Among Us review: Well-written adventure with fun action scenes and fantastic characters" Macworld 10:41 AM
"Appidemic: Romans From Mars for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch" TechnologyTell 7:49 AM
"Max & Ruby Science Educational Games iPhone App Review" Tapscape 6:58 AM
"Demonstrate Review: A focused tool, Demonstrate is a handy way in which to set up hotspot mock ups of apps currently being developed." 148Apps 10:42 AM
"Papa Pear Saga Review: Yes, there's fun to be had – but is it fair?" 148Apps 11:43 AM
"Friendstrap Review: A multiplayer game focused on giving its players something to talk about." 148Apps 8:16 AM
"Hangman 2020 Review: Hangman 2020 is an enjoyable take on the popular Hangman game, packed with entertaining animations and an extensive library of words." 148Apps 9:47 AM
How-To/Tutorial
"How to Get Older Versions of Apps on Older iDevices" Low End Mac 4:58 PM
"Coming November 30: Gene Steinberg meets Macworld's 'iTunes Guy,' Kirk McElhearn, and The Mac Observer's Bryan Chaffin, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 5:14 PM
"FIFA launches official apps for iOS and Android" The Verge 4:43 PM
"iPhone app Everest kicks off its next raise" VentureBeat 4:42 PM
"Apple Stock Is In The Black For The First Time This Year" Business Insider 10:17 AM
"Wal-Mart, Archer Daniels Midland and Apple are big market movers on Friday after Thanksgiving" Associated Press 3:13 PM
"Apple Is Thinking Longer Than Mr. Market - Margins And Average Selling Prices Will Reverse Trend" Seeking Alpha 8:06 AM
"Apple, Time Warner, and Everything You Should Know About Black Friday Stocks" The Motley Fool 8:06 AM
Industry News
"Tech Stocks: Microsoft, Apple, Facebook lift tech stocks/Technology stocks were mostly higher Friday, aided by gains in shares of Microsoft Corp., Facebook Inc. and Apple Inc." MarketWatch 3:13 PM
"Stocks end flat on Black Friday" CNNMoney 3:13 PM
"[Video] Market Hustle: Stocks Close Lower Despite Rush for Black Friday Sales" TheStreet 12:57 PM
"Wall Street Poised to Score Eighth-Straight Weekly Win" FOXBusiness 8:50 PM
"Stocks Finish Strong Month: Dow, S&P 500 Advance for 8th Week in a Row; Climb Fueled by Economy, Fed" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:48 PM
"Asia Markets: Nikkei Slips, Hang Seng at 2 1/2-year high/Profit-taking pulled the benchmark Japanese index down from a six-year high, while Hong Kong's index notched its highest close this year." MarketWatch 6:46 AM
"Europe Markets: Europe stocks up at month's end; S&P lifts Spain/The last trading day of the month began on a flat note in Europe, with stocks treading water on Friday as a surprise drop in German retail sales dinged sentiment. On the upside, Spanish stocks rose after Standard & Poor's lifted its debt outlook on the country." MarketWatch 8:51 AM
"Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks: Nasdaq's 10 most active stocks at the close of trading" Associated Press 8:48 PM
"Final Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares mixed at the close of trading" Associated Press 8:48 PM
"Midday Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares up at 1 p.m." Associated Press 2:39 PM
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