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For Apple, Pressure Builds Over App Store FraudNews from New York Times: Gilles Sabrie for The New York Times Jian Huang, head of Hoolai Game in Beijing. Hoolai, a game developer, discovered that it was missing payments from Apple. In a little over an hour, Ryan Matthew Pierson racked up $ 437.71 in iTunes charges [...]

Apple’s App Store Closes in on 25 Billion DownloadsNews from PC Magazine: February 18, 2012 05:17pm EST Tick-tock: No, not the Kesha song. Rather, the sound that a giant clock is undoubtedly making over at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, as employees and enthusiasts gather to count down the days until the App Store hits its [...]

Construction to begin soon on ‘prototype’ Apple store in downtown Palo AltoNews from San Jose Mercury News: Click photo to enlarge Construction on a new Apple store in downtown Palo Alto, pictured here on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011, is set to begin “any day now,” according to city planning officials. The location at 340 University [...]

Apple pulls driver’s license app from store amid fears it is being used to …News from Daily Mail: By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 7:00 AM on 15th December 2011 An iPhone app that could be used to make fake driver’s licenses has been pulled by Apple after the company was taken to task [...]

Apple Mac App Store downloads top 100 millionNews from USA Today: Less than a year after its launch, more than 100 million apps have been downloaded from the Mac App Store, Apple announced the milestone in a press release. “In just three years, the App Store changed how people get mobile apps, and now the [...]

Huge Apple store opening at NYC’s Grand CentralNews from The Associated Press: Huge Apple store opening at NYC’s Grand Central By VERENA DOBNIK, Associated Press – 5 hours ago  NEW YORK (AP) — One of the world’s largest Apple stores is opening at the landmark Grand Central Terminal. The 23,000-square-foot personal electronics business will start [...]

Apple store targeted in smash-and-grab raid in LondonNews from The Guardian: Press Association The Apple store in Covent Garden, central London. Photograph: Tim Ireland/PA Two people are being held on suspicion of burglary following a smash-and-grab raid at the Apple store in Covent Garden, central London, Scotland Yard said. Police were called at around 1am [...]

Is Taking Secret Photos in an Apple Store Legal? News from Mashable: After artist Kyle McDonald rigged Apple Store computers to take photos of customers, the Secret Service confiscated his computers with a search warrant for computer fraud. McDonald had been compiling photos for a project called “People Staring at Computers.” He had installed a [...]

Apple is losing the App Store argument News from Inquirer: THE CAPPUCCINO FIRM Apple has lost in its latest attempt to stop Amazon from using the term App Store to describe a store that sells miniature software applications. According to a court document seen by Reuters, it is unlikely that anyone would get confused by [...]