There were significant events in Macintosh software development in 2006. There was the Intel transition, a brouhaha over Apple's Human Interface Guidelines, important changes to Objective-C and a controversial charity event called MacHeist
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An unprecedented 740 Indian companies from industries as diverse as casting to agro-chemicals to coffee bars to regulars such as software and banking were involved in mergers and acquisitions and private equity deals worth $26.7 billion.
Apple's options backdating issues have put an $84m (£42.5m) dent in its financial performance, the electronics giant has announced. The restatement came after the software giant had to postpone the release of its quarterly results at the end of last year as Apple conducted a thorough probe.
An investigation into past stock option grants at Apple has found that chief executive Steve Jobs was aware of procedural irregularities but did not benefit personally from the grants or understand the accounting implications.
