Apple seeks staff for new Europe stores
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Apple Inc  is recruiting  staff for new retail stores in Germany and Switzerland,  according to a job opportunities link on its Web site.
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LONDON  - Apple is to open its first retail store in Europe on Saturday, a state-of-the-art boutique in central London selling the latest products from the US computer and technology group.
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The European Commission ended its&#160;antitrust investigation into Apple&#160;after the company agreed to reduce the price of music downloads from its iTunes Web site in the U.K., the European Union&#39;s antitrust regulator said Wednesday.Apple said that within six months it will lower the prices it charges for music on its U.K. iTunes Store to match its&#160;already standardized pricing across Europe&#160;in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, and SpainUntil now iTunes has been more expensive in the U.K., where the currency remains the British pound, than in the countries that have adopted the euro, as well as compared to Denmark and Sweden which tie their currencies closely to the euro, and also more expensive than in Switzerland, which isn&#39;t even in the European Union.The European Commission welcomed Apple&#39;s plan to equalize prices for downloads of songs from the store in Europe.&quot;The Commission is very much in favor of solutions which allow consumers to benefit from a truly Single Market for music downloads,&quot; competition commissioner Neelie Kroes said in a statement.For Apple, &quot;This is an important step towards a pan-European marketplace for music,&quot; said Steve Jobs, the company&#39;s &#39;s CEO. &quot;We hope every major record label will take a pan-European view of pricing.&quot;Apple blames the record labels for charging more to distribute their music in the U.K. than in other countries in Europe, and threatened to drop any record label from the iTunes portal if they didn&#39;t cut their U.K. prices.&quot;Apple will reconsider its continuing relationship in the U.K. with any record label that does not lower its wholesale prices in the U.K. to the pan-European level within six months,&quot; the company warned.
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Apple Inc is calling a London news  conference next Tuesday as speculation mounts that the U.S.  consumer electronics guru will unveil long-awaited plans to  bring its iconic iPhone cell phones to Europe.
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Germany&#39;s biggest Apple   retailer is getting 1,000 enquiries every day about buying the  new iPhone, which is expected to go on sale towards the end of  the year, the retailer&#39;s head told a newspaper.
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Apple introduced its second European sales partner in two days, revealing plans to sell the iPhone in Germany through T-Mobile, the wireless subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom.
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Apple will soon announce steps to  resolve European Commission charges that its iTunes stores  broke EU rules by setting prices country by country in Europe,  people familiar with the situation said on Tuesday.
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Mac enthusiasts line-up early, equipped with their wish list for Steve Jobs.
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At a briefing in Dublin on Monday, Apple UK &amp; Ireland executives were on hand to discuss about two years&#39; worth of Apple products and services, including iTunes, the iPod, the new iMac G5 (which recently launched in Ireland) and the firm&#39;s suite of iLife
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Apple expands its virtual song shop to Ireland, offering more than 700,000 songs at 99 Euro cents each.
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&quot;We&#39;re excited to bring the iTunes Music Store to even more music fans across Europe, and with this expansion we now reach customers in almost 70 percent of the global music market,&quot; Apple&#39;s Vice President of Applications Eddy Cue said.
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By CLINTON MANNING  ULSTER students have been challenged to come up with a new product for Apple computers.   They have to come up with a strategy for the firm that delivered the iMac and the iPod during the the MBA Association of Ireland's Strategy Forum.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Apple Inc. will scrap its iTunes pricing policies across Europe and charge consumers in Britain and the rest of Europe the same for music downloads, the company and the European Union said Wednesday.
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Apple began sending out invitations to members of the UK press on Thursday, as it planned to hold an event at its flagship store in London on Regents Street next Tuesday.
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Apple and four of the biggest record companies this week must submit written responses to antitrust charges that they restricted online sales of music in Europe.
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Furniture maker Ikea plans to hire tens of thousands of new workers as the company continues to expand with dozens of new stores opening around the world, the company's chief executive said in an interview published Monday.
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Apple Computer is planning the next wave  of expansion for its popular iTunes online music store with a  multi-country European launch in October, the services chief  architect said on Wednesday.