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The Swiss National Bank has raised its stake in Apple, increasing its U.S. equity holdings to $38.6 billion, reports Bloomberg (http://tinyurl.com/pcgk62g).

Switzerland’s central bank owned 9.4 million shares in the Cupertion, California-based company on June 30, according to a regulatory filing made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. That compared with 8.9 million shares at the end of March, a 5.5% increase, according to Bloomberg calculations.

If two (and counting) movies/documentaries and various books weren’t enough, now there’s an opera in the works based on the life of the late Steve Jobs.

The Santa Fe Opera announced Wednesday that “The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs,” by composer Mason Bates and librettist Mark Campbell, is scheduled to debut in 2017. The work is a Santa Fe Opera commission, reports the Los Angeles Times (http://tinyurl.com/nz2tyny). 

Apple has updated its TestFlight app to version 1.2.0, which adds support for testing upcoming iOS 9 features such as watchOS 2 apps and App Thinning.

TestFlight lets you install and beta test apps on an iOS device. After a developer invites you to beta test their app, you can install new versions as they become available. TestFlight also allows you to provide feedback to developers on the features you are testing in the prerelease apps you’ve been invited to.

Chronos has announced the return of StickyBrain, its note manager, after a 10 year hiatus. It’s been entirely rewritten from the ground up in Apple’s new Swift programming language in order to take advantage of the latest OS X technologies.

“StickyBrain lets users store anything, find anything, fast,” says Jerry Halls, vice president of Sales at Chronos. “Its familiar sticky note interface combined with its powerful Note Viewer helps users manage all of the information in their lives with aplomb.”