BEIJING/SAN FRANCISCO, April 1 (Reuters) – Apple Inc
Chief Executive Tim Cook apologised to Chinese
consumers on Monday and altered iPhone warranty policies in its
No. 2 market after more than two weeks of condemnation of its
after-sales service in the state-run media.

From China Central Television to the People’s Daily
newspaper, government-controlled media outlets bashed the
world’s largest technology corporation for its “arrogance,”
protesting among other things that its current one-year service
warranty was far shorter than in other smaller markets.

SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Dell Inc founder Michael Dell’s efforts to take the PC company private began last summer with an idea pitched by its top institutional shareholder, Southeastern Asset Management.

Here is a timeline of the discussions as disclosed on Friday in Dell’s preliminary proxy statement:

SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK, March 29 (Reuters) – Dell Inc
founder Michael Dell’s efforts to take the PC company
private began last summer with an idea pitched by its top
institutional shareholder, Southeastern Asset Management.

Here is a timeline of the discussions as disclosed on Friday
in Dell’s preliminary proxy statement :

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Dell Inc warned on Friday that it would be dangerous to take on a lot of debt and remain a public company given its worsening profit outlook, in a sign that it views proposals from Blackstone Group LP and billionaire investor Carl Icahn as fraught with risk.

The No. 3 maker of personal computers published a 274-page preliminary proxy statement to inform Dell shareholders of how a $24.4 billion buyout proposal from founder and Chief Executive Michael Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners was put together, and why it is the best of all the alternatives the company’s board had explored.

SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Michael Dell likely couldn’t have known when he proposed taking his company private last year that he would trigger a three-way contest between two private equity giants and one of Wall Street’s most aggressive activist investors. The outcome of that battle now hinges on the billionaire Texan.

Few predicted a bidding war for a company struggling to re-model itself as its core market declines – let alone one that pushed its value above $24 billion. Behind the scenes, a less-public tug-of-war is emerging, centered on the 47-year-old founder himself.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Technology giants Apple, Google and Amazon are furiously maneuvering for position in the online music business and looking at ways to make streaming profitable, despite the fact that pioneer Pandora has never made a profit.

It has been more than a decade since the iPod heralded the revival of Apple and presaged the smartphone revolution, even as music-sharing site Napster was showing the disruptive power of the Internet in the music business.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Technology giants Apple, Google and Amazon are furiously maneuvering for position in the online music business and looking at ways to make streaming profitable, despite the fact that pioneer Pandora has never made a profit.

It has been more than a decade since the iPod heralded the revival of Apple and presaged the smartphone revolution, even as music-sharing site Napster was showing the disruptive power of the Internet in the music business.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 21 (Reuters) – Apple Inc now
runs its largest U.S. data center entirely on renewable energy,
with a majority of the power generated on-site from solar panels
and fuel cells, the company’s chief financial officer, Peter
Oppenheimer, said on Thursday.

The data center in Maiden, North Carolina, which supports
Internet storage and Apple’s service-hosting iCloud product,
produces 167 million kilowatts — the power equivalent of 17,600
homes for one year — from a 100-acre solar farm and fuel cell
installations provided by Silicon Valley startup Bloom Energy.