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Apple News: Steve Jobs is the most influential person of the past 25 years, says CNBC CNBC has named Steve Jobs the most influential person of the last 25 years. On a list entitled “First 25: Rebels, Icons & Leaders,” Jobs ranks above the likes of Oprah Winfrey and Warren Buffet — along with the founders of Google, Amazon, and other tech giants. The organization claims Jobs deserves the spot…

Apple News: Opinion: the clock is ticking on Apple’s rumored on-demand streaming music service If you need another proof that download sales are declining steadily as music lovers increasingly rent their music rather than buy it, here’s one. Spotify’s head of label relations in Europe, Kevin Brown, revealed last week to an industry outlet that his company is earning more cash across Continental Europe from sales of music subscriptions than…

Apple News: Meet Your Next Banker: Apple Few technology companies are as proficient as Apple at leveraging one side of a business to enhance and grow another side of the business. Apple’s Mac customers made the iPod popular for Windows PC users. iTunes and the iTunes store leveraged the iPod’s popularity. The same thing happened with the iPhone and iPad. All components of Apple’s business aid and enhance other components….

Apple News: Apple Made One Thing Clear This Week — The iPhone Is The Only Thing That Matters Apple’s earnings report made it crystal clear what the company needs to do to keep growing and keep investors happy. It’s not exactly rocket science, either. Apple just has to grow the iPhone business. That’s it! iWatches are fun to talk about. An Apple TV might be cool. The payments industry is…

Apple News: Apple Will Soon Be The Way You Pay For Stuff Online And Beyond The most impressive number from Apple’s earnings call this week wasn’t how many iPhones it sold or how much money it made. Those numbers are monstrous quarter after quarter. More striking was CEO Tim Cook’s revelation that about 800 million people now have accounts on Apple’s iTunes service. And most of those accounts are tied…