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Apple Confirms Tim Cook as Speaker at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference

A notice on Apple’s Investor Relations page confirms that the company will be offering a live webcast (audio only) of a presentation at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference where CEO Tim Cook will be the speaker. Cook's presentation will kick off at approximately 12:30 PM Pacific, accordin...

14 February 2012
03:30 GMT

iTunes Chief Accepts Grammy on Steve Jobs' Behalf

Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president, Internet Software and Services, has accepted a Special Merit Grammy Award on behalf of Steven P. Jobs, the late co-founder and CEO of the Cupertino, California-based computer giant. In December, 2011, the Recording Academy announced its 2012 Special Merit Awards lineup,...

13 February 2012
02:37 GMT

Tim Cook’s Top Priorities: A Cash Pile of $97 Billion and a Partner Called Foxconn

With a growing cash pile that will exceed $100 billion the next reported quarter and a PR fiasco regarding overseas partners accused of worker abuse, Timothy D. Cook has his way cut out for himself, according to a report that profiles the new Apple CEO.Some believe Cook might even do a great job as the president of t...

30 January 2012
03:38 GMT

Apple Staff Still Feels Steve Jobs Present on 1 Infinite Loop Campus

It’s been three months since the passing of Steve Jobs, yet people working within the confines of a certain Infinite Loop in Cupertino, CA still feel the man’s spirit around the offices. Quotes and posters from the visionary genius have remained hung on the walls of Apple’s HQ since the company&rsq...

30 January 2012
02:31 GMT

Apple CEO Gives His Word That Worker Abuse Claims Are Blatantly False

After The NY Times ran a troubling story about Apple looking the other way on worker abuse at its partners’ overseas facilities, CEO Tim Cook says he is downright shocked by these claims, and wants to set the record straight.The CEO promptly responded with a letter to all Apple staffers, saying “As a comp...

27 January 2012
02:33 GMT

Apple CEO Confirms $500 off Macs, $250 off iPads for Employees

Starting this June, Apple employees who have been working at the company for longer than 90 days will be able to buy a Mac and / or an iPad at a considerable discount, CEO Tim Cook has confirmed.After reporting the stellar financial results for Q1 2012, Apple’s Chief Executive Officer, Tim Cook, scheduled a mee...

26 January 2012
03:57 GMT

Apple CEO Schedules Meeting in Town Hall

Tim Cook has sent a company-wide email to congratulate everyone for their hard work to achieve the stellar results posted by Apple during yesterday’s earnings call. Not only that, he also told staffers that he expected them in the company’s auditorium today at 10:00 AM sharp to discuss some new and excit...

25 January 2012
09:28 GMT

Tim Cook: iCloud Is Becoming Central to Our Business

Apple’s CEO is hinting to Wall Street analysts that they should keep an eye out for any product that integrates with iCloud in the next ten years, as the service has become central to Apple’s business.In a conference call that had been scheduled for a while, Apple posted a new record quarter beating Wall ...

25 January 2012
03:22 GMT

Rumors Are Worth Millions to Apple

“Millions of dollars” — that’s what Apple makes from the amount of press coverage in the weeks leading up to a new product launch, according to an unnamed company staffer quoted in Adam Lashinsky’s book, Inside Apple. Due out later this week in both hardcover and e-format, Inside Apple ...

23 January 2012
13:11 GMT

Apple’s Next CEO Already Being Discussed

Tim Cook was an obvious choice for the role of Chief Executive Officer with Steve Jobs stepping down from his leading position last year, weeks before his death. But who says Cook was Apple’s only choice to fill that CEO chair? No one. In fact, according to the author of an upcoming book called Inside Apple, A...

17 January 2012
17:01 GMT

Apple Discloses Suppliers for the First Time Ever

In a rare move, Apple has disclosed all of its suppliers, its relationship with these partners, and the measures it takes to ensure proper working conditions for the people making its iPods, iPhones, iPads, and Macs.Disclosed in a PDF document on the Apple web site, the 156 companies are listed in alphabetical order....

15 January 2012
10:35 GMT

John Sculley: Apple Will Change the TV Experience

In a recent interview with the BBC, former Apple CEO John Sculley disclosed quite a few juicy details about his involvement with Apple, and his badly interpreted relationship with the late Steve Jobs. He also gave interviewers a piece of his mind about television. On his relationship with Jobs, Sculley said, “...

13 January 2012
11:01 GMT

Luxury Not Important for Apple CEO Tim Cook

Roughly 450 headlines published yesterday took on Tim Cook’s newly-acquired ‘fortune’, after news had broken out that the man had been compensated several hundred million dollars for his role as CEO. And who better to discuss fortunes if not Philip Elmer-DeWitt of Fortune magazine who believes thos...

12 January 2012
03:19 GMT

Apple CEO Tim Cook’s Salary for 2011 Revealed

Apple’s 2012 proxy statement reveals that the newly instated CEO, Timothy D. Cook, received an annual salary of $900,000, whereas Steven P. Jobs was credited his annual $1 compensation. According to the 2012 Proxy Statement posted online by Apple this week, “As of the end of 2011, Mr. Jobs owned approxim...

10 January 2012
05:08 GMT

Former Apple Staffer Posts Rare Photo of Steve Jobs Flipping Off IBM

Andy Hertzfeld, a member of the original Macintosh development team, is using Google+ to show off a photo of a young Steve Jobs flipping off the IBM logo on a street in Manhattan, NYC. Hertzfeld writes on his Google+ account, “In memoriam for Steve Jobs as 2011 draws to a close, here's one more rare photo...

3 January 2012
05:41 GMT

Steve Jobs’ Legacy at Apple: Flair, Organization Design

Every other year the people at ChiefExecutive.net profile companies that are the best and the worst at what they do, and they’re careful to pick different names every time to provide “a fresh set of management insights.” One of the top scoring CEOs listed in this year's rankings is the late Ste...

5 December 2011
13:01 GMT

Isaacson: Ive and Cook Together Form Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs biography author Walter Isaacson remarked at a breakfast conversation hosted by Fortune that Steve Jobs lives and breaths through the experience of two key Apple executives, one of which is an operational wizard, the other a design guru.Walter Isaacson, author of the bestselling biography on Steve Jobs, sa...

11 November 2011
09:44 GMT

Tim Cook 'Thinks Different'

Timothy D. Cook, the man whom Apple’s leadership chose to put in the CEO seat after Steve Jobs’ resignation, is reportedly leaving a distinct mark on the company already, doing things that the late visionary never did.People familiar with Apple internally say Mr. Cook has attended to administrative affair...

2 November 2011
03:56 GMT

Steve Jobs Didn’t Regard Tim Cook as a ‘Product Person’

In Walter Isaacson bio of Steve Jobs, the late Apple co-founder is quoted as saying that Cook has great operational skills, but that products aren’t a trait he’s defined by.Unlike Jobs, who not only was a great leader but was also obsessed by the products his company made, Cook only knows how to run thing...

25 October 2011
10:58 GMT

Steve Jobs Unknowingly Met His Biological Father

Given up for adoption as small child, Steve Jobs later met his natural mother who revealed to him that his sister was the novelist Mona Simpson. The sister later revealed to Steve Jobs who his natural father was and, most importantly, that they had also met.CBS interviewed Walter Isaacson, the author of Steve Jobs&rs...

24 October 2011
06:01 GMT

Steve Jobs Biography Out Now, Get it on Your iPad or Kindle

The exclusive Steve Jobs biography by bestselling author Walter Isaacson is out on the iBookstore for iPad and iPhone, as well as on Amazon as Kindle e-book and hardcover.Written by Walter Isaacson, the author of bestselling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, the exclusive biography of Steve Jobs i...

24 October 2011
03:03 GMT

Al Gore: 'Steve Jobs Was the Kind of Guy that Comes Along Once Every 250 Years'

At the AllThingsD conference in Asia this week, former US Vice President Al Gore had some interesting things to say about Apple’s late co-founder, Steven P. Jobs.Gore, who served on Apple’s board of directors during Jobs’ reign, said he (Jobs) was “the kind of guy that comes along once every 2...

21 October 2011
16:01 GMT

Samsung and Apple Discuss Supplying ‘Better Parts’ in the Future

In what may seem an attempt to loosen up in their fierce dispute over dominance in the smartphone market, Apple and Samsung have come to terms on at least one topic recently - supplying better parts for their products.After attending Steve Jobs memorial service on Sunday, Lee Jae-Yong, the only son of Samsung Electro...

20 October 2011
07:33 GMT

Steve Jobs Could Have Lived Longer, Had He Enough Product-Launch Drive - Speculation

Softbank CEO and Apple partner Masayoshi Son has revealed in an interview that Steve Jobs worked on his company’s products and announcements until his last day. Son believes the iPhone 4S launch let Jobs live longer.Son recalled visiting Apple for the announcement of the iPhone 4S at the company’s headqua...

19 October 2011
10:27 GMT

Apple Stores Closing for One Hour Wednesday, Oct. 19th

Apple has confirmed to employees that retail operations will shut down for one hour on October 19th, during the Steve Jobs celebration event. The time will be used to watch a live webcast of the celebration in Cupertino.Following Jobs’ death on October 5th, Apple announced that the company would hold a celebrat...

17 October 2011
03:32 GMT

Tim Cook Tells Apple Staffers to Take Entire Thanksgiving Week Off

In yet another email sent to Apple staffers this week, Chief Executive Officer, Tim Cook is announcing that Apple will be shutting down for a whole week so that everyone can take a relaxed breath in light of all that’s happened at Apple this year, good and bad.Cook is addressing Apple employees with immense adm...

14 October 2011
03:07 GMT

Steve Jobs Passed Away Peacefully Surrounded by His Family

According to a statement provided by Steve Jobs’ family, the co-founder and former CEO of Apple died peacefully on the evening of October 5, 2011. His loved ones were around him when he passed away, according to reports. Jobs is survived by his wife, Laurene, and three children.A statement from Steve Jobs'...

6 October 2011
05:42 GMT

Photographer Pays Awesome Tribute to Jobs

Jonathan Mak Long has photoshopped the Apple logo to replace the bite with Steve Jobs’ face to bring his own tribute to the Apple co-founder. The image depicting Jobs' face appears to be taken from the cover of ‘Inside Steve’s Brain’, a book about the iconic man authored Leander Kahney.Ap...

6 October 2011
03:52 GMT

Apple Board of Directors Acknowledges Steve Jobs’ Death

The Apple board of directors and Chief Executive Officer, Timothy D. Cook, have issued official statements acknowledging the death of their company’s beloved co-founder.Although Apple’s web site had been rigged to advertise a newly announced iPhone, new iPod models, iOS 5, and iCloud, the company today is...

6 October 2011
03:31 GMT

Steve Jobs Dies at 56

Apple is saddened to inform that Steve Jobs, the company’s visionary and co-founder, has passed away at age 56.The company's board of directors made the news official by posting an obituary and a photo of Jobs on the main page of its web site with the message:“Steve Jobs: 1955 - 2011.Apple has lost a...

6 October 2011
02:20 GMT

Steve Jobs Too Ill to Attend Today’s iPhone Event, Says Silicon Valley Blogger

Blogger Robert Scoble, a former Microsoft employee who runs his own tech blog and has some connections in Silicon Valley, claims he’s heard Steve Jobs will not be attending today’s festivities in Cupertino. The reason? He’s not feeling very well.Steve Jobs, as avid Softpedia readers should well know...

4 October 2011
08:06 GMT

Steve Jobs to Appear at iPhone 5 Event - Rumor

Reports are starting to emerge with claims that former Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, will make an appearance at the event scheduled for tomorrow, October 4, at Apple’s Town Hall Auditorium on the company’s campus in Cupertino, California.The reports in question indicate that Jobs is ‘expected’ to att...

3 October 2011
10:59 GMT

'All About Steve' eBook Released

Those of you who are having a tough time waiting for the official Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson, or Agate’s ‘quotes’ book arriving in November can now visit Amazon for a little surprise. Fortune apparently realized that the hype surrounding Steve Jobs’ resignation and the public&r...

28 September 2011
02:37 GMT

New Steve Jobs Book Announced, Launches this Fall

Agate Publishing of Evanston, Ill., has worked up this 160-page book chock full of Steve Jobs quotes and they plan to release it this November, about the same time Walter Isaacson’s official Steve Jobs biography comes out.Featuring quotations sourced from various interviews, public appearances and writings duri...

22 September 2011
10:21 GMT

Steve Jobs Knew in 1996 How Apple Would Be Reborn in 2001

A televised interview with Steve Jobs from 1996 holds key clues as to how the former Apple CEO thinks and, even better, how he did exactly what he put his mind to, as the boss of the company he co-founded with Steve Wozniak. Louis Rukeyser (January 30, 1933 – May 2, 2006), an American financial journalist, col...

19 September 2011
09:51 GMT

Apple Customers Confident of Their Next Purchase, Despite Steve Jobs Resignation

Those who were planning a trip to the Apple retail store before CEO Steve Jobs had resigned are not feeling any drawbacks now that Jobs has stepped down, leaving the reins to former COO, Tim Cook, according to a new survey.The results are in from a recent ChangeWave study which clearly indicates there’s a bit o...

14 September 2011
14:41 GMT

John Sculley Regrets Fallout with Steve Jobs, Wishes He Could Turn Back Time

John Sculley, a former Apple CEO lured into the company by none other than Steve Jobs, has been interviewed recently on his lifetime experiences, including his time at Apple.Sculley had been vice-president and president of PepsiCo when he got the CEO spot at Apple on April 8, 1983, a position he held until 1993.Scull...

14 September 2011
11:41 GMT

Steve Jobs Biography Swells to 656 Pages

Publisher Simon & Shuster has revealed that Steve Jobs’ biography might be pushed to after November 21, and with an extra 208 pages at that.Written by Walter Isaacson, author of bestselling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert einstein, the book ‘Steve Jobs’ is based on more than forty interv...

13 September 2011
03:51 GMT

Tim Cook Does the Unthinkable - Opens Apple to the World

Tim Cook appears to have made the first move that acts as a key differentiator between the way he and Steve Jobs think in terms of leadership. Drawing a clear line between how Cook and Jobs do (or did) things at Apple, the newly-instated CEO reportedly sent an internal email to staffers announcing a new charitable ma...

9 September 2011
17:01 GMT

Everybody Agrees Steve Jobs Left a Solid Apple Behind

A study by Consumer Affairs shows that Apple watchers have complete confidence in the company’s ability to continue to command the market even after Steve Jobs’ resignation announced last month.A consumer news and advocacy firm founded in 1998, Consumer Affairs acknowledges that Steve Jobs' sudden re...

7 September 2011
06:38 GMT

Steve Jobs Tattoos Are Up, Get Your Own for 5 Bucks

Steve Jobs fans have the opportunity to literally show their appreciation for America’s most iconic ex-CEO by getting a temporary tattoo of the man’s face.“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. Here's to the man who defin...

2 September 2011
04:54 GMT

CEO Tim Cook Already Making Changes at Apple

Formerly in charge of Apple’s iTunes division, Eddy Cue has just been promoted to Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services, according to Tim Cook, Apple’s new CEO.Reporting directly to Cook, Cue will also serve on Apple’s executive management team, according to Apple’s newly-app...

1 September 2011
13:21 GMT

Tim Cook Also Answers Apple Fans’ Emails

We have one more reason to believe Tim Cook’s promise that Apple is not going to change with him replacing Steve Jobs as several sources are reporting that Cook is keen to adopt one of Steve Jobs’ traits - taking the time to answer emails from Apple fans. Following Steve Jobs resignation as CEO, Cook h...

31 August 2011
08:46 GMT

'Shocking' Images of Skeletal Steve Jobs May Be Fake

Purported photos of Steve Jobs taken right after his resignation as CEO are circulating on the web with one ‘skeptic’ (allegedly knowledgeable of doctored photos) claiming the images are fake. Leaked to tabloid TMZ by a representative at Pacific Coast News, the images in question seem to indicate Steve...

29 August 2011
09:33 GMT

Tim Cook's Ultimate Test Will Be to Launch a New Product

The speculation is on about whether Tim Cook, the new Apple CEO, will be just as good a leader to his company, as he is a manager. Formerly Chief Operating Officer and now Chief Executive Officer of Apple (following the resignation of Steve Jobs last week), Tim Cook mostly knows about the company’s worldwide...

29 August 2011
07:54 GMT

Steve Jobs' Pancreatic Cancer Returns to the Spotlight Following Resignation

Prior to taking his last two medical leaves from Apple, Steve Jobs fought off a rare form of pancreatic cancer that ended with a liver transplant and some medication. Or has the ordeal ended? Certainly not, those who are well accustomed with the disease say, according to CBSNEWS. And so it would seem, given that J...

26 August 2011
08:02 GMT

Meet Tim Cook, Apple’s New CEO

Hours into the announcement that Steve Jobs had resigned as CEO from Apple, the Executive Profiles page at Apple.com reflected the change, listing Timothy D. Cook as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer. “Tim Cook is the CEO of Apple and serves on its Board of Directors,” reads the updated bio...

26 August 2011
03:59 GMT

Steve Jobs's Departure Leaked Four Weeks Ago, Says OfficeLeaks.com

OfficeLeaks.com, a newly-founded service that provides a free platform for employees and employers to engage in anonymous dialogue, is capitalizing on the hype surrounding Steve Jobs' resignation, saying someone had leaked this info some four weeks before Apple would announce it officially. According to OfficeL...

25 August 2011
12:31 GMT

Wozniak: Steve Needs to Have Some ‘Steve Time’

Speaking to the co-author of a book titled ‘iWoz: How I Invented the Personal Computer and Had Fun Along the Way’, Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak weighed in on the sudden resignation of Apple’s boss this week, saying the man was in need of a break. Gina Smith, editor-in-chief at BYTE and co-autho...

25 August 2011
08:50 GMT

Google Exec Shares Touching Story Amid Steve Jobs’ Resignation

A Google executive has a short but touching story about one experience he’s had with Steve Jobs a few years ago, touting the Apple Co-Founder as one of the greatest leaders he’s ever met. A simple phone call from Steve on a Sunday morning is what spawned Vic Gundotra’s post which sheds light on h...

25 August 2011
05:48 GMT


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