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Technically it's a yapp (get it, your app?), but it still might change your life.

Usually rumors are... just rumors.

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The Internet gives angry customers a megaphone; even one angry one can do a lot of damage. Here's how to defend your company and defuse a crisis.

News updates all day from your Fast Company editors. Late yesterday Apple revealed its last quarterly sales , and they were again impressive enough to beat Wall Street's expectations .

Forget what the competition is planning: Apple does not envision the iPad and MacBook Air converging at any point in the near future. Today, the company released its second-quarter financial results ($39.2 billion in revenue, $11.6 billion in net revenue), and despite selling 11.8 million iPads, Cook took time during an earnings call to discuss the potential threat of the PC and tablet spaces converging. Many expect Microsoft's latest offering, Windows 8, to unite these two sides of the spectrum, making the tablet not a post-PC device, but just a PC in a different form

Cloud start-ups have thrived because no major Big Tech company beat down their doors. That just changed. It's official: Google announced its new Google Drive service Tuesday—just one day after I wrote about how the Mountain View tech giant was moving into a territory wholly dominated by Box and Dropbox

Even a 20-something billionaire could use a little help. He just got it from Microsoft--via a huge heap of AOL patents.

In the mid 1990’s, Apple Computers was a dying company.

Apple's share price has dropped significantly in the last couple of weeks. This was possibly due to one analyst downgrading his expectations for Apple based on the assumption that cell phone operators would grow tired of paying the large subsidy the iPhone carries. But it doesn't take into account the different markets outside the U.S.

Can't offer extra money or a better title? You may not need either to get your top employee to stick around. Dear Jeff, One of my employees is outstanding, but I’m worried because I can tell she is starting to look for greener pastures.

Just because you had a disaster, doesn't mean you'll ultimately fail. In fact, you can learn what you need for eventual success. Google will sell co-branded tablets through online stores in an attempt to compete with Apple's iPad, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

Starting to see more photos arranged in grids?

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Google's Drive Leaks Continue . It now looks that when Google's cloud storage app Google drive arrives it'll come with a capacity bigger than an earlier rumored 2GB storage capacity, instead offering 5GB for your documents

In a small but very significant way Apple is trying to change China. It's a step perhaps no one else could make, and it's rather complicated.