The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has invalidated a patent held by Apple, raising hopes at Korean rival Samsung that an ongoing lawsuit between the two rivals in the U.S. could yet turn out more favorably for the Korean giant. The USPTO provisionally invalidated Apple’s patent for a “touch screen device, method, and graphical user…
FORTUNE — It must have seemed like a sure thing. According to a US federal criminal complaint filed Tuesday, David Miller thought he’d make a quick killing in Apple on Thursday, Oct. 25 — the day the company reported its fourth quarter earnings — by pretending to misplace a decimal point on a client’s order. The…
The Self-Made Man The self-made man (male or female) is he who comes from unpromising circumstances, who is not born into priviledge or wealth, and yet by his own efforts, by pulling himself up by his bootstraps, manages to become a great success in life. The idea of the self-made man is almost similar to…
Africa is the world’s second-largest and second-most-populous continent. At about 30.2 million km² (11.7 million sq mi) including adjacent islands, it covers six percent of the Earth’s total surface area and 20.4 percent of the total land area. With 1.0 billion people (as of 2009), it accounts for about 14.72% of the world’s human population.…
From its launch in April 2010, the iPad became the fastest selling ever consumer product. It reached $1 Billion in sales in just 4 months. By April 2011, just one year after its release, its accumulated sales were exceeding $9.2 billion with over 15 million people owning iPads all over the world.
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