ever paid by an american company. giving cash back to shareholders opens up apple s stock to a whole new category of investors. more cautious investors, or investors who require a steady stream of income from their stock can now and will now buy apple. offering a dividend is not something you usually see with a tech company that s still growing. it can be a sign of the company s stock prices leveling off. and they have to start paying dividends to keep investors interested. but that may not be the case with apple. i think it s going to continue to skyrocket. reporter: jay elliott who wrote the book the steve jobs way says he set up a model of explosive growth for apple that s nowhere near finished. the system they have in place, the way they sell their products, i think they are going to continue to be an incredible cash machine. i don t see that stopping. reporter: elliott thinks apple is doing a good job addressing the recent criticisms about the working conditions at f
been used as journalism. how on earth could this have happened? deja vu on the presidential campaign trail with the pundits again denigrating mitt romney after a pair of victories by rick santorum, and many prodding newt gingrich, again, to quit the race, and what about santorum s charge that fox news is schilling for romney? plus, comedian ali wentworth on her new show. her marriage to george stephanopoulos, and how the president reacted when he heard she would be entertaining at the white house. obama said, ali wentworth, isn t she inappropriate? which in my world is a huge compliment. huge. i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. it was the most popular episode in the history of this american life. public radio reported on alleged abuses at a chinese factory that makes ipads and iphones. it relied heavily on one-man performance artist mike daisy. hurz hoe ira glass put it. when i saw mike daisy perform this story on stage, when i left the theater, i had a
had made its own nuclear fuel rods domestically for the first time. it was loading these into what it said was a reactor for medical purposes, not for nuclear weapons. but this is going to be watched very closely here in washington and in israel, of course, because the question is whether this development, this announcement of them being able to make their own nuclear fuel rods is actually the real deal. can they do it? do these fuel rods work? how good is the quality? is this another step potentially on iran s road to potentially making nuclear weapons? that s the key question for intelligence agencies right now. what does this all mean? iran s had a lot of problems with its nuclear efforts. are they really successful at this? have they made the decision to go forward. c.i.a. director david petraeus says one of the things he s watching very carefully is whether they re going to make that move to go for highly enriched uranium. that would be a significant step on the road to
the doctors who wrote the prescriptions for those pills could be subpoenaed. in syria, artillery and machine gun fire echo aross crosse the city of homs while a thick smoke from a pipeline explosion hangs overhead e opposition activists say government forces are set on planting every neighborhood that might hold disdent. our arwa damon is in the besieged city. reporter: around 7:30 in the morning began the sustained bombardment, various sounds of artillery being fired, impacting here as well as sporadic, heavy automatic machine gun fire has been heard and this has been the status quo in homs for over a week now. just hours ago, iran began loading what it calls its first home-built nuclear fuel rods. president mahmoud ahmadinejad helped insert the rods into a reactor at a research center in tehran. it is broadcast live. his government insists the technology is needed for medical purposes. western nations believe the iranians are focused on building a bomb. today s move i
endangering the lives of civilians who could be caught in the crossphile. jurlists, three being held after five days at the tripoli hotel. cnn s chaunce was one of them. steve jobs will step down. jobs is on his third medical leave of absence. he didn t mention his health problems directly but he said the time has come to resign. portions of the u.s. east coast are likely to be under a hurricane watch in just a few hours. hurricane irene is tearing through the bahamas right now with sustained winds at 160 miles an hour. it could hit the populated, northeast this weekend. those are the top stories. i m zain veer gee. world business today starts now. an ipod, a phone. are you getting it? the innovator steve jobs steps down as ceo of apple. we ll look at the company s future under new leadership. hello. i m andrew stevens in hng kong. and i m nina dos santos in london. you re watching world business today. captions by vitac www.vitac.com let s start with the ma