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Apple: Samsung owes us ‘billions’ in damages

Claiming every trial delay is costing them money, Cupertino turns up the rhetorical heat

FORTUNE -- In a motion filed in California federal court Monday, Apple (AAPL) accused Samsung of not only stealing its intellectual property, but using courtroom delaying tactics to steal more of the iPhone's market share.

FOSS Patent's Florian Mueller has the money quote:

"While...

How is AMZN worth 13 AAPLs?

There seems to be a growing disconnect in Wall Street's valuations

FORTUNE -- I know that comparisons, as Shakespeare's Dogberry put it, are supposed to be odorous, but this one is beginning to stink.

How can Apple (AAPL), with $110 billion in the bank, annual sales of $140 billion and earnings that nearly double every year, be...

Nielsen: In the U.S., white men carry the dumbest phones

Among ethnic groups, Asian Americans are the most likely to pack a smartphone

FORTUNE -- The move from so-called feature phones to smartphones continues apace.

As of March 2012, 50.4% of U.S. mobile subscribers owned smartphones, up from 47.8% in December 2011, according to a Nielsen survey released Monday. Google's (GOOG) Android was the most popular smartphone operating system (48.5%), while...

Apple’s roller-coaster ride on the Fortune 500 list

From Jobs to Sculley to Spindler to Amelio to Jobs (again) and Cook

FORTUNE -- It's been seven months since Fabio Zambelli retired SetteB.IT, the Italian-language blog with which he'd been covering Apple (AAPL) for more than five years. But he's still tracking the company's progress. When Fortune released its annual listing of America's 500 largest companies...

The market values Apple’s earnings growth at $0.00

The only thing that seems to matter to Wall Street is how much cash it has in the bank

FORTUNE -- It's been a year since Asymco's Horace Dediu -- mystified by the apparent decoupling of Apple's (AAPL) share price from its earnings growth -- first spotted the correlation between the company's valuation and its holdings...

Why Warren Buffett wouldn’t invest in Apple or Google

The Oracle of Omaha has a second rule: Don't buy companies you don't understand

FORTUNE -- Some 18,300 people -- more than attended Barack Obama's massive campaign kickoff Saturday -- showed up for Berkshire Hathaway's (BRK-A) annual shareholder's meeting in Omaha yesterday. And judging from the New York Times' live blog, it was a lot of fun. There were cartoons...

Why the father of disruption theory is worried about Apple

One hundred and two minutes with Clay Christensen and Horace Dediu

FORTUNE -- About 40 minutes into the interview with Clay Christensen that Asymco's Horace Dediu posted Wednesday on his Critical Path podcast, Dediu brings the conversation around to Apple (AAPL).

Christensen, who was Dediu's mentor at Harvard Business School, is best known as the author of The Innovator's Dilemma --...

Was Amazon’s Kindle Fire just a flash in the pan?

Sales of the Kindle e-readers have apparently also fallen off a cliff

FORTUNE -- Thursday was bad-news day for Amazon's (AMZN) Kindle line of tablets and e-readers.

IDC released first quarter tablet sales data that had Kindle Fire shipments falling from 4.8 million in the Christmas quarter to less than 750,000 units last quarter. "Kindle Fire Shipments...

J.P. Morgan: No full-blown TV set from Apple anytime soon

Apple's next big thing, an analyst speculates, is more likely to be mobile payments

FORTUNE -- If I didn't already agree with him, Mike Moskowitz's note to clients Thursday would have convinced me.

"We do not expect Apple TV this year," wrote J.P. Morgan's chief Apple (AAPL) watcher. "Our research does not indicate any looming TV-related product launch, and...

iPhone owners least likely to switch when service sucks

Blackberry and Android users are quicker to drop both their phone and their carrier

FORTUNE -- A new survey of smartphone users doesn't speak well for the quality of the cellular telephone service provided by U.S. carriers.

Roughly 40% of respondents said they experience at least five dropped calls a month, and 9 out of 10 said...

iPhone owners least likely to switch when service sucks

Blackberry and Android users are quicker to drop both their phone and their carrier

FORTUNE -- A new survey of smartphone users doesn't speak well for the quality of the cellular telephone service provided by U.S. carriers.

Roughly 40% of respondents said they experience at least five dropped calls a month, and 9 out of 10 said...

With 8.8% market share, Apple has 73% of cell phone profits

Among the major vendors, Samsung captured 26%, HTC took 1%, and the rest lost money

FORTUNE -- Asymco's Horace Dediu on Thursday updated his quarterly review of mobile phone profits, and the news for everyone but Apple (AAPL) and Samsung is not good.

Apple is in roughly the same position it was last quarter, with an 8.8%...