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Budi Putra  //  Former CNET Asia blogger; gadget lover; and currently working as Country Editor Yahoo! Indonesia (Comments expressed here do not necessarily represent the views of my employer, Yahoo!). meme.yahoo.com/budip

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Mar 5 / 2:39am

Fortune: Apple wins World's Most Admired Company Award

Again, --yeah, it's third year in a row winning the award-- Apple has won  2010 "World's Most Admired Company" award. Fortune Magazine polled 4200, company directors, corporate executives and industry analysts to get this winner. Congrats, Steve!
 
In Fortune's words:

"With 250 million iPods, 43 million iPhones, and 32 million iPod touches sold to date, plus the promise of a game-changing iPad, Apple won this year's vote by the highest margin ever for a No. 1. Two more years as champ and Apple will match GE for most appearances in the top spot.

What makes Apple so admired? Product, product, product. This is the company that changed the way we do everything from buy music to design products to engage with the world around us. Its track record for innovation and fierce consumer loyalty translates into tremendous respect across business' highest ranks.

[via TwitTown]

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Feb 12 / 12:44am

Will Apple build its own search engine?

The answer is no, according to Silicon Alley Insider. There are too many options in the search market today, so that building a new search engine is not that easy. Another reason: The company is getting over US$100 million anually from Google, since Google is the default search engine in Safari.

For Apple, that's not a lot of money. But, it's enough that it doesn't make sense for Apple to put considerable resources towards building its own Internet search engine. And, if Apple wanted more money or options, there's Microsoft -- with Bing and a big checkbook.
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Feb 4 / 7:40pm

Yahoo, Bing better than Google for #iPad image search reveals

With so much excitement around the device, the disappointing part is that though a week has passed since we saw the first iPad unit, Google Images still has no clue about the existence of this Apple device.

[via Labnol]

     

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Jan 28 / 12:44am

The Steve Jobs way

Apple CEO Steve Jobs finally unveiled a multimedia tablet computer named the iPad, after "nearly a decade of rumors and speculation". We could follow pros and cons arguments on the Apple's latest device, but I think, one for sure: Steve Jobs has his own logic behind his innovations. There are some quotes from Steve Jobs about this, including:

“We do no market research. We don’t hire consultants. The only consultants I’ve ever hired in my 10 years is one firm to analyze Gateway’s retail strategy so I would not make some of the same mistakes they made [when launching Apple's retail stores]. But we never hire consultants, per se. We just want to make great products.”

“It’s not about pop culture, and it’s not about fooling people, and it’s not about convincing people that they want something they don’t. We figure out what we want. And I think we’re pretty good at having the right discipline to think through whether a lot of other people are going to want it, too. That’s what we get paid to do.”

Good job, Mr. Jobs!

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