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Apple has sold over three million units of its new iPad since launching the device on March 16. More >

Apple's App Store has hosted its 25 billionth download. The person who downloaded the 25 billionth app will be revealed in due course, and will receive $10,000 in iTunes vouchers. More >

Apple has all but confirmed plans to announce iPad 3 by sending out invitations to a press event taking place next week. More >

Apple looks set to give a thorough overhaul to the App Store to improve discoverability following the acquisition of Chomp. Chomp's search engine, available on iOS and Android as a standalone app, enables users to search not just by title - which, obviously, requires that users know what they're looking for - but by type. More >

Mac OS X will support Apple's gaming social network with the release of 10.8 Mountain Lion, a paid update that will be released in summer. Like Game Center on iOS, which was launched in 2010, its Mac incarnation will include support for achievements, scoreboards, online play and matchmaking, and add cross-platform play and in-game voice chat. More >

Apple stock yesterday broke $500 per share for the first time. The Cupertino company is now worth $465 billion, making it by some distance the most valuable company in the world. According to Apple Insider, Apple shares ended the day's trading at $502.60. It now has a 17 per cent lead over its nearest rival, Exxon, which is worth a paltry $400 billion, and is worth more than Microsoft and Google combined. More >

Increased iPhone, iPad and Mac sales over the Christmas period saw Apple post a sharp increase in revenue and profit for its first fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2011. More >

Apple has released the results of an annual audit of working conditions at the 156 suppliers involved in the manufacture of its products. The full list includes the controversial Foxconn, Chinese manufacturer of iPhone, iPad and Mac, as well as the likes of Samsung, Toshiba, Sony and Panasonic. As AppStorm notes, it's an unusual move from a company which had previously been known for keeping a tight lid on details of its suppliers. More >

Cloud gaming service OnLive has further expanded its reach today by announcing OnLive Desktop, a free app which brings Microsoft Windows to Apple's iPad. The company says OnLive Desktop is the first "no-compromise" Windows experience on iPad, which will give full access to Windows 7 applications including Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint. The app offers multi-touch recognition, a full on-screen keyboard and handwriting recognition. More >

Apple is cracking down on piracy of App Store software by issuing takedown notices to a popular source of cracked iOS apps under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). Cult Of Mac reports that Apple has issued DMCA takedown notices to Apptrackr. As a result, Apptrackr has moved its servers to different countries where the DMCA does not apply. More >

The top 200 apps on the iPhone App Store generated four times as much revenue last month as those on the Android Market, according to a new study. The report, by mobile analytics firm Distmo, also found that iPad apps made twice as much money as their Android Market equivalent. It also shows a dramatic shift towards freemium, with half of the top 200 iPhone apps, and 65 per cent of Android apps, are free-to-play and supported by in-app purchasing. More >

Apple has named Andreas Illiger's one-button iOS game Tiny Wings as the iPhone game of the year. Runners-up were NimbleBit's life-stealing time management sim Tiny Tower, and physics puzzler To-Fu 2. The Chillingo-published Contre Jour was named best iPad game, ahead of Shadowgun and Gesundheit HD. More >

Nvidia's new quad-core mobile processor, Tegra 3, offers only a modest improvement over Apple's A5, according to early benchmark tests. TechCrunch reports that Nvidia's long-standing boast that Tegra 3 would leave the likes of A5, the processor used in the iPad, trailing in its wake appears to be wide of the mark. More >

Apple has pulled Big Fish Games' iPad app, the first videogame app to make use of the App Store's subscription service, without explanation. "We were notified that the app was removed," founder Paul Thelen told Bloomberg. "We're trying to follow up with Apple to try to figure out what happened." More >