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Is Apple Facing the Music?
Apple stock reached an all-time high of more than $500 a share this morning, as Apple announced an independent audit of working conditions at Chinese subcontractors.
By Warren Olney • • 51m ListenApple stock reached an all-time high of more than $500 a share this morning, as Apple announced an independent audit of working conditions at Chinese subcontractors. How bad are they? Do consumers care enough to change their buying habits? Also, President Obama releases his election-year budget, and Israel is blaming Iran and Hezbollah for a car bomb that exploded in India and another that was defused in Tbilisi.
Banner image: Amanda Kloer, Director of Organizing at Campaign on Change.org, speaks to reporters during a protest in front of the Apple store in Washington, DC on February 9, 2012. Photo by Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images
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3 storiesObama Releases Election-Year Budget
President Obama released his latest budget today, a familiar document framed with familiar rhetoric.
Read the story1 minIs Apple Facing the Music?
Last year it was Wired magazine, reporting on allegedly inhumane working conditions at Foxconn, which makes iPads and iPhones for Apple at two factories in China.
Read the story37 minBlames Iran and Hezbollah for Twin Assassination Attempts
Car bombs aimed at Israelis in India and the nation of Georgia were the work of Iran and Hezbollah. That's according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu . In New Delhi, a passing motorcyclist slapped an explosive on the car carrying the wife of an Israeli diplomat. It went off and she's hospitalized in moderate condition.
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