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Essential Apple News: Is Advertising the Next Major Opportunity?

 Apple  (Nasdaq: AAPL) not only straddles the burgeoning tablet and smartphone markets but also holds sway across the computer, home-entertainment, and media fields. The moves it makes can affect the future of hundreds of companies. With that in mind, we're taking a look at the week in Apple news, to see how its latest activity influences the Cupertino giant, its suppliers, and even its competitors.

Google introduces Goo.gl, a URL shortener

Mountain View, CA, December 15 -- Google has released their own URL shortener called “Goo.gl”, and challenged the supremacy of “Bit.ly” in this field.

Apple's 100,000 apps fail to impress

New York, November 5 -- Apple's official declaration of having 100,000 applications fails to impress.

Apple's meteoric 47 percent increase in profit gives hope to economy

Seattle, October 20 -- If technology companies are being predicted to sail the economy out of this recession, then Apple is sure at the helm of things.