STEVE JOBS

Apple Inc plans to shutter U.S. retail stores for several hours on Wednesday so employees can take part in a company-wide celebration of co-founder Steve Jobs' life, a person familiar with the celebration said.

Dropbox was once sought after by Apple CEO Steve Jobs. The company denied Apple the sale and went on to build one of the most successful companies in Silicon Valley. Their most recent round of venture capital funding earned them $257.2 million.

Apple plans to close down U.S. retail stores for several hours on Wednesday so employees can take part in a company-wide celebration of co-founder Steve Jobs' life.

Apple reported full-year revenue of $108 billion, firmly establishing it as one of the world’s top technology companies. Fourth-quarter earnings of $6.2 billion exceeded analyst estimates, but revenue of $28.3 billion fell slightly shy of them.

Will the shares of semiconductor maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) benefit from the iPhone 4s/5 Wave, now that Apple (AAPL) has introduced its new smartphone?

Just days after the iPhone 4S becomes one of the fastest selling gadgets of all time, Apple fans begin to speculate about the iPhone 5, which allegedly was the last project that Steve Jobs was intimately involved in and may break iPhone 4S sales numbers.

Google and Samsung are slated to unveil the Nexus Prime and Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich phones tonight via a live stream at 10:00 p.m. EST on the Android YouTube channel.

iPhone 4S was snapped up like hot cakes during the debut weekend and, according to Apple, it sold 4 million units of the latest smartphone in the first three days after it went on sale on Oct. 14. From June 24-26 in 2010, when iPhone 4 went on sale, Apple sold 1.7 million units during the first three days.

While Apple’s fourth quarter results won’t be known until late Tuesday, one thing is nearly certain: for the first time annual revenue will exceed $100 billion, maybe by as much as $10 billion.

The private memorial service of Steve Jobs, the visionary and creative tech genius, was held at Stanford Memorial Church on Sunday evening, moving hundreds of celebrities to tears.

The rumor mills keep turning as the expected Nexus Prime release date fast approaches, but finally the Japanese Network NTT DoCoMo has spilled the beans through a twitter post, signaling that the phone will be released in early November with the highly anticipated Android ice-cream sandwich software.

Now that it’s betting $12.5 billion to acquire Motorola Mobility, Google plans to unveil its latest version of the Android OS, known as “Ice Cream Sandwich,” at a Hong Kong event Wednesday with Samsung Electronics.

iCloud and Siri voice recognition are only two of the five major reasons why iPhone 4S sold four million in three days.

Sunday, Oct. 16, was officially declared to be Steve Jobs Day by California Governor Jerry Brown. The governor tweeted an update on Saturday commending the Apple genius's brilliance in shaping powerful technologies today.

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Here are the top 5 out of the innumerable weird reactions to Jobs' death.

While Apple unveiled iPhone 4S just a day before the Apple’s co-founder, Steve Jobs died, Samsung held back the launch of Google’s Nexus Prime (which was scheduled at Oct. 11) saying it is in memory of the computer genius.

Just a few doors down from the Apple store in Sydney, where a long line of fans eagerly awaited the sale of the new iPhone 4S, another throng was gathering at a Samsung store.

Apple set a new record by selling more than 4 million iPhone 4S smartphones in the first three days after it was introduced, as customers flocked to Apple retail stores and waited in huge lines to get their hands on the coveted device.

At the News Corporation annual shareholder meeting Friday, those in attendance will get the chance to vote on splitting the role of Chairman and CEO.

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