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's Adam Lashinsky details some of the ways that Apple has already begun to change under Tim Cook's tenure. Among them, an emphasis on supply chain and operations, the choice to offer a dividend for the stock, and the fact that employees are no longer scared to ride the elevators.

(The Next Web)

Apple has landed in yet another company's crosshairs over alleged patent infringement. This time, it's iCloud, iTunes, and the App Store that have raised the ire of the filing party, a small company named STEC IP. The patents in question sport the usual vague language, covering things such as a "Technique for enabling remote data access and manipulation from a pervasive device," "Network management system having virtual catalog overview of files distributively stored across network domain," and the ever popular "System for reaping profit via the technicalities of law, in the absence of actually creating or producing anything useful."

(threatpost)