Apple : Apple reportedly wants to buy Pinterest rival The Fancy

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Apple reportedly wants to buy Pinterest rival The Fancy Posted: Reports this weekend claim Apple is interested in snapping-up the fast-rising, well-backed Pinterest rival The Fancy. Business Insider claims Apple is already in talks with the company, backed by the co-founders of Twitter and Facebook. Apple wants to, according to the report, claim a larger stake in the e-commerce market and make use of those 400m+ credit cards it has on file through iTunes. The $100m-valued The Fancy is different to Pinterest in that it links people to thinks they'd like to buy and then takes a cut of any sales. Meeting with Cook The Fancy's CEO Joe Einhorn reportedly met with Apple CEO Tim Cook earlier this year and the Cupertino boss is now an active user on The Fancy. Business Insider says it has no indication if and when a deal will be finalised, or how much of its massive cash stockpile it would be willing to splash on The Fancy. The reports come a week after the New York Times claimed Apple was interested in 'spending hundreds of millions of dollars' to take a stake in Twitter.

Purported Apple iPad Mini casing pics appear online Posted: Pictures of a metal shell claiming to be the long-rumoured Apple iPad Mini have surfaced on a Chinese microblogging site. The rather suspect-looking casing, pictured above, appeared on the Sina Weibo blog and has been picked up by a few Apple sites since. We've been hearing rumours left, right and centre in recent days, weeks and months, claiming Apple will launch a 7.85-inch iteration of its world-beating tablet later this year. On Friday, it emerged in the Samsung vs Apple trial that Steve Jobs was "very receptive" to the idea. No rear camera? Taking a closer look at the pictures, you'll see that this purported casing has no hole for a camera lens, which makes us both sceptical and curious at the same time. Would the iPad Mini ditch the largely-unused, pretty turgid rear camera from the iPad? There's a good chance that these pictures are fake, but we remain hopeful that Apple will unleash a smaller iPad, perhaps as soon as the log-awaited iPhone 5 launch expected within the next couple of months.

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