Bringing that cash home would require that Apple pay a 35 percent repatriation tax.
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In the United States, advertisers such as Coca-Cola and Apple pay millions of dollars to place their products in films and TV programmes.
Considering the importance of Brazil, the most likely scenario is that Apple will pay off IGB.
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Nokia previously forced Apple to pay for its innovations, but has largely been dormant in the recent patent wars.
Apple should pay for those: which, one could argue quite reasonably, it should.
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Additionally, a court ordered Apple to pay iPhone-using lawyer, Kim Hyung-suk, one million won in a civil suit against the company.
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Meanwhile, paid legal online distribution platforms, from Netflix to Amazon to Apple, pay peanuts, if they pay at all.
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Cisco had to sue Apple in the Federal District Court for Northern California to force Apple to pay Cisco for the rights to use the name iPhone.
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The proposed settlement, first reported by legal-news site Law360 and tech blog GigaOM, does not state how much Apple will pay overall or how many users are affected.
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To get a feeling for what Apple may pay for debt Microsoft recently raised 5 year debt at a 1.01% rate, 10 year at about 2.4% and 30 year at around 3.9%.
Maybe the police are learning the same thing as everyone else: Pay attention to Apple and people will pay attention to you.
And even when consumers use Google for mobile searches, they are often doing so on Apple devices like iPhones, for which Google has to pay Apple a fee.
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Most of all, customers with other Apple products will pay that premium because they already know they like Apple products.
The sticking point seems to be what Apple is willing to pay to the music owners: and Apple seems to be wanting those rights cheap.
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Last week, Apple boosted the pay of its store employees by 25 percent.
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Before the annual meeting some shareholders expressed concern over Apple's pay arrangements for executives.
As a result of their messing around Apple have to pay higher legal fees.
The New York Post reported last month that Apple wants to pay 6 cents per 100 song streams.
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How Apple wheedled their pay outs down to only 2 percent is likely a tricky question involving accountants who studied Kant.
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The suit was settled two years later in mid-2011, with Apple agreeing to pay an undisclosed one-time sum and recurring royalties.
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Apple offered to pay Motorola a licence fee for using the patents - but the two companies could not agree on a price.
It was the last in line to agree to pay Apple huge prices for its phones just as they were peaking in attractiveness to consumers.
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Sprint may also need some capital to pay Apple for the right to sell compatible versions of the iPhone 4 and 4S, the analysts write.
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Even so, Hesse was probably the last man alive to offer to pay Apple billions and billions at full price to be able to sell iPhones.
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There are indeed other ways of running the system but it does look like Apple really does pay only 2% or under on those foreign profits.
On the other hand, selling more iPhones will hurt reported profits, as the carriers absorb the hit from the substantial subsidy they pay Apple for every phone sold.
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Imagine current users of the iphone 5 having to pay Apple a downpayment now for an iphone 9, due out in 10 years, even if it never comes to the market.
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That is to say, iPhone prices will continue to fall (again, we are talking mostly what carriers pay Apple, not what retail prices are in the U.S. although there are signs those are also slipping a bit on average).
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