Apple Inc. (AAPL) News: Shedding Light on Siri, Steve Wozniak, iPad Information, and More

…mobile ad spend share for all iOS devices increased slightly to over 75% in March. Monthly ad spending on iPhones increased 12% quarter over quarter and now accounts for just over 50% of all mobile ad spending. The iPad’s share decreased to 19% and the iPod fell to 6%.

Why Apple’s alliance with Yahoo makes sense (USA TODAY)
Last week, the Wall Street Journal broke the news that Apple and Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) were in talks to deepen their mobile-services relationship. The partnership is mutually beneficial because it allows Yahoo to improve its presence in mobile, and it allows Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) to distance itself from rival Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG), said Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu in a report. Additionally, Yahoo data already powers native iOS stock and weather apps on iPhones and iPads. Wu wrote: “While this is a positive for Yahoo as it looks to strengthen its presence in mobile, this also signals Apple’s efforts in lessening its dependence on Google, who has arguably emerged as its biggest competitor…”

Chinese site exploits Apple’s own tools to distribute pirated apps without jailbreaking (The Verge)
Chinese pirate site 7659 is exploiting Apple’s bulk enterprise licensing tools to distribute free versions of paid App Store applications. Bulk enterprise licensing is supposed to let businesses send in-house apps to employees without dealing with Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s App Store. It works via a developer provisioning profile, which facilitates “sideloading” of sorts without jailbreaking. The site is only open to users in China, but that restriction can be circumvented via proxy server. According to VentureBeat, 7659 is full of apps that would otherwise cost money. Those include our best new app last week, Badland, which is usually $3.99, and Final Fantasy V, priced at $15.99 in the App Store.

After Apple’s Rise, a Bruising Fall (CNBC.com)
Wall Street has turned viciously on its one-time iDarling. The rout in Apple’s share price — it fell nearly 2.7 percent on Thursday, bringing the damage since late September to 44 percent — has many wondering when, and where, all of this will end. The answer, of course, is that no one really knows. Yes, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is slowing, as companies inevitably do. But Apple remains enormously profitable and the envy of corporations worldwide. And yet Apple’s decline in the stock market has been so swift and so brutal that the development has begun to change the way investors view the company. Apple no longer looks like a sure thing.

Motorola patent that banned Apple’s push mail in Germany may be invalid, court says (PCWorld)
A Motorola Mobility patent that was successfully used to force Apple to turn off its iCloud push email services for users in Germany last year could be invalid, the District Court in Mannheim, Germany, said on Friday. The court said it doubted the validity of Motorola’s patent entitled “Multiple Pager Status Synchronization System and Method,” also known as the push notification patent, in a lawsuit between Motorola Solutions Inc (NYSE:MSI) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT). Google-owned Motorola alleged that several Windows Phone devices in Germany infringed on this patent, according to Microsoft.

Survey finds 19% of consumers interested in buying Apple ‘iWatch’ (Apple Insider)
A new survey has discovered strong consumer interest for a hypothetical “iWatch” from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), with 19 percent of consumers declaring themselves “likely” to buy such a device. The new data from ChangeWave Research published on Friday found that…