Apple has reportedly donated $50 million to Stanford University hospitals as part of its recent philanthropic strategy shift. The numbers were revealed during Apple's Town Hall meeting with employees, according to sources speaking to , with $25 million each going to a new main hospital building and a new children's hospital.

Apple often holds Town Hall meetings following major announcements or at the end of a particularly successful quarter in order to bring employees up to speed on the company and keep morale high. In this case, Apple CEO Tim Cook hosted a Town Hall meeting immediately following the announcement of the company's first quarter 2012 , which Apple described as the "highest quarterly revenue and earnings ever."

According to The Verge, a decent chunk of the meeting was spent discussing the new philanthropic efforts . In an e-mail to employees last September, Cook said the company would begin matching employee donations to nonprofits up to $10,000 annually—a stark change from the Jobs-era Apple that appeared to rank charitable donations as a low priority. One thing Jobs did focus on, however, was Apple's participation in the consumer-facing program aimed at AIDS education and research. On that front, Cook apparently told employees that Apple has given more than $50 million to that effort as well since the .

The mobile phone industry continues its march toward smartphone dominance as consumer interest in feature phones wanes, according to market research firm IDC. Record sales of Apple's iPhone in the fourth quarter pushed the company into third place among all mobile phone vendors, up from fifth place last year. Samsung's strong smartphone sales kept it in second place, but edged it closer in marketshare to the declining long-time market leader, Nokia.

The overall mobile market grew just 6.1 percent year-over-year for the fourth quarter, less than the 9.3 percent growth from last year and less than the overall 11 percent growth rate of the market for the year.

The mobile phone industry continues its march toward smartphone dominance as consumer interest in feature phones wanes, according to market research firm IDC. Record sales of Apple's iPhone in the fourth quarter pushed the company into third place among all mobile phone vendors, up from fifth place last year. Samsung's strong smartphone sales kept it in second place, but edged it closer in marketshare to the declining long-time market leader, Nokia.

The overall mobile market grew just 6.1 percent year-over-year for the fourth quarter, less than the 9.3 percent growth from last year and less than the overall 11 percent growth rate of the market for the year.

Final Fantasy XIII-2 takes place three years after Final Fantasy XIII. Vanille, Fang, Snow and Lightning are gone; either dead, encased in crystal or disappeared to unknown adventures. Serah Farron, Lightning's sister and Snow's fiancé, hides her pain while teaching the children of New Bodhum and helping her friends in NORA. Images of Lightning engaged in an epic battle haunt her dreams, but she knows her sister is gone forever.

What happened to Final Fantasy? The elaborate narrative and groundbreaking graphics of Final Fantasy VII turned the franchise from a significant cult favorite into a mainstream blockbuster in 1997. Since then, though, almost every Final Fantasy has struggled to find the correct balance between game and story, with CGI cut-scenes and anime clichés taking up as much time as the gameplay.

There's a reason many of us here at Ars wait a few days (or in some cases, weeks) after an OS update before installing it: reports of problems after upgrading to Mac OS X 10.7.3 have begun multiplying since its release on Wednesday afternoon. But don't worry—you don't have to wait for Apple to issue a fix, as reinstalling with the 10.7.3 Combo updater seems to take care of the various upgrade issues.

The most prominent problem that some users are running into appears to involve a bizarre series of question mark images labeled "CUI" popping up on various screens and error boxes. (See the image at the top of this post for an example posted from .) The CUI error seems to appear in place of buttons and scroll bars, and there's on the Apple discussion boards about the problem. Other users have reported issues with and .

On the upside, there appears to be an easy (if not somewhat redundant) fix if you've already updated and are seeing these issues. Installing the —a 1.2GB download from Apple's website—on top of your existing 10.7.3 installation reportedly remedies the problems introduced from Software Update. If you use Time Machine and want to roll back your install altogether, you can do that too before applying the combo update.

Those of us at Ars who have already updated haven't run into these issues yet, but have you?