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'Follow-Away' Thieves Target Apple Store Customers

Jan 7, 2010 12:46 PM CST

'Follow-Away' Thieves Target Apple Store Customers

More than 100 California customers have Macs stolen from cars

(Newser) - More than 100 Apple Store customers around LA have had their newly purchased Macs swiped by burglars who followed them out of the store. Police have nabbed some suspects—three were charged in Orange County last month in relation to 28 cases—but believe there’s a larger ring behind...

Microsoft Pinching Apple
Employees to Staff Stores

Sep 22, 2009 2:54 PM CDT

Microsoft Pinching Apple Employees to Staff Stores

Managers enticed with higher salaries and sent back to poach sales people

(Newser) - Microsoft’s planned expansion into the brick-and-mortar retail sector will be staffed at least in part by…Apple Store employees, reports the Loop. The software giant is hiring away Apple managers with higher salaries, sources tell the tech blog. Those managers in turn are trying to bring aboard Apple's top...

Apple Stores Defy Recession's Bite on Retailers

Aug 24, 2009 9:03 AM CDT

Apple Stores Defy Recession's Bite on Retailers

(Newser) - Recession or no recession, customers have kept lining up to buy iPhones and other Apple products, Bloomberg reports. Apple’s store revenues grew 2.5% over the first six months of 2009, even as retail sales overall fell 9.2%. In New York, where boutiques on Fifth Avenue are largely...

Best Buy to Sell iPhone

Aug 13, 2008 2:08 AM CDT

Best Buy to Sell iPhone

Apple big seller in stock next month

(Newser) - Electronics retail giant Best Buy will begin selling the iPhone in its 970 stores next month—becoming the first retailer to stock the line other than Apple stores and AT&T outlets, which often run out of the popular phone. Best Buy is the only outside retailer to have exclusive...

Is New iPhone Apple's Vista?

Jul 28, 2008 1:21 PM CDT

Is New iPhone Apple's Vista?

Analyst says continued tech, customer-service turbulence could do real damage

(Newser) - It’s still exceedingly tough to get a new 3G iPhone due to limited supply, and myriad technical problems persist in registering and operating the eagerly awaited gadget. Apple has apologized for the lines, and the bugs in its new syncing software, but one analyst tells USA Today that the...