10 Things You Need To Know This Morning (AAPL, EBAY, MSFT, GOOG)

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• It costs Apple $188 to build an iPad Mini.
• Apple only paid 1.9% tax on its foreign earnings of $37 billion last year.
• Things are going so badly for Sharp it wants a bailout from the Japanese government.
• Apple owns 50.4% of the tablet market.
• Samsung sold 30 million Galaxy S3s in five months.
• Anonymous hackers say they've exposed 28,000 PayPal passwords.
• Apple opened a store for Foxconn workers, the people who make its products.
• You know that incredible photo of half of Manhattan in darkness on the cover of New York? Here's how it was shot.
• Twitter is going to add Instagram-like filters, and Jon Gruber thinks that's a bad idea.
• iPhone customer loyalty has declined for the first time ever.

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