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Apple sells out pre-order supply of iPhone 6 series

Apple (AAPL) signaled Monday that it will have trouble filling early orders for its eighth-generation smartphone lineup. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company announced pre-orders for over 4 million units of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus during their first 24 hours online. Apple and its carrier partners began taking pre-orders for the new handsets before dawn Friday morning. Demand for the new iPhones exceeds the initial pre-order supply, Apple said in a press release. It added that many iPhone pre-orders won’t be delivered until sometime in October. But Apple and wireless carriers AT&T (T), Sprint (S), T-Mobile (TMUS) and Verizon (VZ) will have units available for purchase on Friday, ensuring that consumers will line up outside those stores before they open at 8 a.m. local time. “Pre-orders for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus set a new record for Apple, and we can’t wait to get our best iPhones yet…

Comedians make fun of Apple Watch, Apple Pay, iPhone 6

Apple’s (AAPL) big product reveal on Tuesday had everyone talking, including comedians who made light of all the fuss over the tech giant’s new smartphones and first smartwatch. Late-night comedians even used the occasion to revisit last week’s controversy about celebrity nude photos stolen from Apple ‘s  (AAPL)  iCloud service. Satirical news website The Onion had team coverage of Apple’s announcements. First, it ran an article detailing the features of the Apple Watch, including “adjustable ticking volume.” Then it conducted a survey asking people if they planned

Cool or not, Apple still popular with students

Online textbook rental firm Chegg had second thoughts about publishing a survey showing that Apple (AAPL) was losing its “cool” factor among college students. On Thursday morning, Chegg (CHGG) put out a press release titled “Apple Losing its Cool: With iPhone 6, Chegg Survey Finds College Students Rate Apple Less ‘Cool’ Than Tech Giant Counterparts.” It posted the release on its website and to PR Newswire. But within hours, it pulled the release nd replaced it with a more Apple-friendly press release titled “Chegg Survey Finds One Third of College and High School Students Plan to Purchase iPhone 6 While One in Ten Plan to Purchase the Apple Watch.” You can still see the original press release on news sites such as CNN Money, Yahoo Finance and Nasdaq. Chegg spokesman Usher Lieberman told IBD that the original release was a draft and was never supposed to be posted. It was…