Here are your Apple rumors and AAPL stock news items for Thursday:
Samsung Uses Apple Lawsuits to Raise Tablet Profile: Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) gave Samsung (PINK:SSNLF) lemons — and now it’s lemonade time. Samsung has been embroiled in an international patent lawsuit war with Apple over its mobile devices, particularly the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet. Apple has moved to block the sale of the Galaxy Tab on all sides of the world, from Australia to Germany. However, now that it has secured the right to sell the Galaxy Tab in some of these contested territories, Samsung is now using the tablet’s Apple-perceived infamy to sell the product. As noted in a Thursday report at Mac Rumors, Samsung Australia VP of telecommunications Tyler McGee told The Sydney Morning Herald that the lawsuits have made the Galaxy Tab a “household name.” Website Engadget also posted an advertisement for the tablet from an Australian paper boasting the tagline, “The tablet Apple tried to stop.”
More Than a Quarter-Billion iPhone, iPad Sales Expected in 2012: In a Thursday report at Fortune (via 9 to 5 Mac), Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty raised sales expectations for Apple’s popular portable devices during the first quarter of 2012. What’s wild about the expectations is that Huberty’s research indicates Apple will sell more goods at the beginning of next year than during the holiday quarter of 2011. Where Morgan Stanley’s previous estimates put iPhone sales at around 28 million for the first quarter, based off a new survey, the new estimate is 41 million, with total 2012 sales raised from 134 million to 190 million. The iPad received a similar increase, with previous sales estimates for 2012 at 52 million raised now to 81 million.
Apple Named 10th-Best Place to Work: Online careers website Glassdoor.com released the results of its 2012 Employee’s Choice Awards, naming Apple the 10th-best company to work for. Apple came in 20th in last year’s survey. Employees answered a 20-question survey covering topics including employee morale, career opportunities and work/life balance, among others.
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