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Apple News: Apple Launches Ebay Factory Outlet Store Selling Refurbished iPhone 5 If you want to get your hands on a refurbished Apple iPhone 5, and not just any other refurbished product but the one certified by Apple itself, you’re in for a good news. Apple has — once again — silently launched an eBay Factory Outlet store where the company selling Apple certified refurbished iPhone 5 with one-year Apple…

Apple News: WSJ: Apple Is Hiring Engineers in Asia to Launch More Products, Faster Good news, perhaps, for the impatient: the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple is “hiring hundreds of new engineers and supply-chain managers” across Asia in an attempt to “speed up product development and launch a wider range of devices.” According to “people familiar with the matter,” Apple is poaching staff from HTC and other tech…

Apple News: Apple pays tribute to Nelson Mandela on its homepage Apple has updated the homepage of its website this evening to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela. The late South African president and anti-apartheid revolutionary died on Thursday at the age of 95. As it did following the passing of Steve Jobs and a handful of other figures, Apple has removed all product placements on the landing page and replaced…

Apple News: Listen Up Apple-Haters: IPhone Sales Eclipse Microsoft and Amazon Revenue Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook has taken plenty of flack for running a company that is supposedly well past its glory days—and the iPhone smartphone franchise is sometimes dismissed as a spent force, losing ground to more innovative brands such as Android and Samsung. Well, here’s a little perspective for the Apple-haters. The iPhone 5s and 5c…

Apple News: Apple’s “Passbook” is now a Registered Trademark On August 30, 2013, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple’s latest registered trademark for “Passbook” under registration number 4,391,155. The trademark which was officially granted on Monday was originally filed for in November 2012. The Passbook icon was granted registered status on August 01, 2013. Passbook is an application in iOS that allows users to store coupons, boarding passes,…