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John Browett, the newly-instated head of Apple’s retail division has decided to make his presence felt in the nicest way possible – by giving everyone raises. Employees will be given raises between 1% and 5% of their current salary, depending on sales for individual stores, according to reports. Granted... |
28 May 2012
07:31 GMT |
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Facebook is making its own smartphone, according to American newspapers this past weekend. The social network has reportedly hired not one, but at least six former Apple staffers who worked on the iPhone and the iPad in different tenures. The Apple blogosphere is already abuzz with the NY Times blogging about people... |
28 May 2012
05:41 GMT |
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Recalling the MobileMe fiasco, a former Apple insider reportedly told Fortune that Steve Jobs would have gone ballistic over the lackluster functionality of Siri. A voice-activated assistant, Siri has been in beta for over half a year now, yet the service seems to be just as flawed as it has been on day one. That&rs... |
25 May 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Apple gives every new staffer a motivational note to get him / her started with tremendous spirit and confidence. An Instagram user says the note pictured above has been so inspirational to him that he keeps it hanging on his dresser’s door. It’s been there for two years. The note has Steve Jobs written... |
7 May 2012
08:30 GMT |
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Apple’s recently-hired retail whiz John Browett now has his own page on the company's Executive Profiles section. Sitting right next to CEO Tim Cook, and reporting directly to him in real life, John Browett is officially Apple's senior vice president of retail. Browett has been snagged from Dixons t... |
2 May 2012
03:31 GMT |
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An open position for iOS Software Engineer in the Santa Clara Valley offices of Apple Inc. hints at expanded development for implementing 3D technology in the company’s portables.Apple Inc. is seeking a Computer Vision specialist to beef up its team of engineers handling multi-view stereo research for the compa... |
17 April 2012
12:11 GMT |
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Apple has taken "aboard" the (former) executive VP and Chief Financial Officer for United Continental, Zane Rowe. Previously working at the holding company that owns United Airlines, Rowe is said to be taking up a high-ranking sales position at the Cupertino, California-based iPhone maker. This is not speculation, ... |
17 April 2012
11:11 GMT |
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Symantec’s accountant, Phillip A. Bullock, has left for Apple Inc. to lead the Mac maker’s tax department, according to an SEC filing unveiled today. Business Insider says “Apple poached Symantec's SVP and chief accounting officer Phillip Bullock to run its tax department,” but regards t... |
10 April 2012
10:35 GMT |
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An Apple retail employee in Charlotte, North Carolina, systematically stole two dozen iPhones between December 1 and January 11 from the Genius Room located inside the very store he worked at. The stolen goods amount no less than $16,425.
According to the Charlotte Observer, the staffer was ratted on by a co-worker ... |
22 February 2012
10:09 GMT |
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An Apple employee speaking on the condition of anonymity has revealed to the NT Times’ Bits blog that the next iPad features a “truly amazing” screen.
This person confirmed to the American news blog that Apple is actively testing iPad 3 units internally.
The device is “essentially the same s... |
10 February 2012
02:58 GMT |
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As the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Google and Apple for allegedly signing a “no poach” agreement, the latter has just lost a senior director to the former. Google will be assigning a top secret project to this person, according to VentureBeat.
Simon Prakash was most recently the senior di... |
6 February 2012
08:21 GMT |
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The retail stores Browett handled in his day may not have provided a perfect experience, as many have suggested ever since he was named SVP of Retail at Apple, but the man handles his business well, reports suggest.
Apple, as you may have heard, recently decided to take Browett under their wing and nurture him.
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3 February 2012
14:11 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Xbox Live marketing chief in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) has left for Apple, reports say. And his LinkedIn profile has been pulled, which further suggests that the man has been snagged by one notoriously secretive company, headquartered at 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA.
Robin Burrowe... |
3 February 2012
12:31 GMT |
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Apple is replacing Ron Johnson with John Browett, former CEO of Tesco.com and Dixons, for the role of senior vice president of Retail. He will be tasked with maintaining and improving Apple’s retail strategy as the company continues to expand globally.
Apple made the news official on its PR site stating that &... |
31 January 2012
02:49 GMT |
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Apple’s new CEO certainly has what it takes to make profits soar, but one former employee believes he has enough charisma to be the next president of the United States.Speaking to Adam Lashinsky at LinkedIn, the former Apple employee confirmed an interesting account from the author’s book, Inside Apple, r... |
29 January 2012
16:24 GMT |
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"We’ve known about labor abuses in some factories for four years, and they’re still going on,” a former Apple executive told the press on Wednesday, speaking on condition of anonymity. “Why? Because the system works for us,” this person said, according to a disturbing report by The New ... |
26 January 2012
13:11 GMT |
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If you ever wondered how your first day as an Apple staffer would feel like, you can find out in Adam Lashinsky’s upcoming book, Inside Apple. Even more conveniently, the author has published an excerpt that might answer this particular question. The huge extract from the upcoming book is focused on the secrec... |
19 January 2012
06:01 GMT |
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Apple has reportedly snagged Todd Teresi for the position of iAds chief. Teresi replaces Andy Miller, who resigned in August from his leading position within the iAd division to take a job at Highland Capital as a partner.Todd Teresi is still listed as a VP and GM of Media Solutions at Adobe, and prior to that he was... |
5 January 2012
04:02 GMT |
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Apple is hiring a Georgia man for his design skills on the iOS platform. Jan-Michael Cart is leaving to California in less than a month to begin work at the company as an intern.Some of you may know Jan-Michael Cart for his brilliant iOS interface concepts. He’s the guy who pretty much thought out the entire No... |
13 December 2011
09:28 GMT |
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A person within Apple has leaked the company’s ‘Retail Blogging and Online Social Media Guidelines’ which explain that employees cannot use blogs, wikis, social networks, and similar online tools to communicate about their employer internally.But that’s the tip of the iceberg as far as restric... |
5 December 2011
09:48 GMT |
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Apple has deployed an internal application for retail staffers that allows them to locate and assist customers using the retail stores’ “Smart Signs” - custom made iPads found on display tables that give visitors access to a wealth of product information.The internal app is customized for each store... |
29 November 2011
09:35 GMT |
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Care to see (and perhaps resonate with) a very naturalistic vision about the future of computer interaction and some real evidence that not even Steve Jobs got it right? Read on, then. Bret Victor was a Human-Interface Inventor at Apple, where he worked on “half a dozen experimental hardware platforms”, ... |
10 November 2011
05:29 GMT |
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A site dealing exclusively with news and information about Apple’s retail organization (and apparently the individual staff) reveals in a new report that Cupertino is coming down hard on those employees who use social networking channels, or forums to badmouth the company.ifoAppleStore reports that the British ... |
1 November 2011
16:21 GMT |
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Yahoo! has lost its chief of Global Data Center Infrastructure, Scott Noteboom, to Apple Inc. sources say. Noteboom will likely oversee Apple's servers as the Cupertino giant prepares to expand iCloud and various iTunes offerings.Mr. Noteboom is now a "distinguished gentleman" at Apple, according to his LinkedIn... |
24 October 2011
07:20 GMT |
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A number of internal documents describing iCloud and iOS 5 have been leaked to the web with information about the system requirements and customer eligibility for free service.According to the screenshots / document scans obtained by Cultofmac, the internal papers show what Apple staffers are supposed to tell custome... |
11 October 2011
09:13 GMT |
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The iPhone 5 is expected to hit Apple’s retail stores around October 14, with the Cupertino tech giant blocking out vacations in the second week of next month, according to people who are familiar with Apple’s plans.Recent leaks attributed to people close to Apple indicate there will be a lot of fuss in t... |
26 September 2011
04:41 GMT |
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A nicely arranged plate of sushi appears to have been the first choice for an object photographed through the lens of an iPhone 5 handset.Picked up by smartphone-centric blog Pocketnow, this photo initially ‘claimed’ to be taken by an iPhone 4, but it was later revealed through EXIF data tinkering that th... |
8 September 2011
03:45 GMT |
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Allen Haughay Jr. 48-year-old Apple software engineer was riding his horse, Regal Bull, over to a neighbor's mariachi party on Hale Avenue when he got struck by a 2004 GMC pickup truck and died, along with his horse.Haughay was reportedly riding with a handful of friends at about 8:20 p.m. when the pickup hit hi... |
6 September 2011
12:11 GMT |
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Nicholas Allegra, or Comex as the jailbreak community knows him, will no longer serve the needs of iOS enthusiasts looking to break free from Apple’s ‘shackles,’ now that he is beginning an internship with the Mac maker.
He will, however, want to jailbreak his phone. Whether or not he joked about... |
30 August 2011
07:56 GMT |
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Whether it has something to do with the regime at Apple, or simply because there are more profitable opportunities under a different roof, one Andy Miller of the iAd division, and Louie Mantia, who served as a visual interface designer, are leaving Apple behind to take a different route.Reports indicate that Apple&rs... |
18 August 2011
06:31 GMT |
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A new job posting that calls for a code-savvy candidate who will be part of the core iWork engineering team with "commitment to delivering great user experience" suggests Apple may be expanding its productivity suite with web apps.
The Software Engineer position is for Apple’s Santa Clara Valley offices wher... |
3 August 2011
07:31 GMT |
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A San Francisco resident claims to have spotted what he thought was an Apple employee using a prototype iPhone 5 unit on a train as he was returning home from work. He took pictures to back his claims.
The image in question doesn’t do the device justice, the tipster said.
An owner of two Apple handsets - ... |
29 July 2011
05:07 GMT |
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An Apple staffer speaking on the basis of anonymity has revealed that OS X 10.7, the latest version of Apple’s Mac OS, is "most likely" to come this week, and late too.
The IB Times quotes the source as saying that, although many web sites have pinned the release on July 14th, it is "most likely" to coming "... |
18 July 2011
03:06 GMT |
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Richard "Chip" Lutton Junior, who manages Apple’s patent portfolio, will soon leave the company, according to a source familiar with the situation.
Lutton did not respond to requests for comment, and neither has any Apple representative contacted for clarification on the matter, the IB Times reports.
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12 July 2011
07:41 GMT |
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John Herbold has renounced his position as Senior Product Manager of iCloud at Apple Inc. to join HealthTeacher and become Vice President of Product. John will lead and oversee the development of world-class interactive health teaching tools.HealthTeacher saves us the trouble of digging up information on Herbol... |
22 June 2011
02:53 GMT |
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As Apple prepares to celebrate 10 years of booming retail, some of company’s staffers who believe are not compensated for their hard work are forming a boycotting group to spread the word that Apple retail is not what we see in the promotional videos.
“We are launching today to get fellow employees, sh... |
20 May 2011
07:45 GMT |
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Second Gear software designer Justin Williams has confirmed via Twitter that Safari engineer Mike Thole is no longer on Apple’s payroll. Thole is joining Square, the mobile-payment company behind the Square Credit Card Reader for iDevices.
Thole is yet to update his LinkedIn profile to confirm that Square In... |
13 May 2011
04:25 GMT |
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Apple may be looking into the possibility of creating its own, Apple-branded sound systems, going by reports that the Cupertino-based Mac maker has hired Tomlinson Holman, former corporate technical director for Lucasfilm.
Apple prides itself on hiring the best-of-breed from every industry, whether it’s video, aud... |
5 May 2011
05:36 GMT |
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Amid rumors that Apple is moving away from Google in order to provide its own mapping services to iOS customers, Apple has posted a job advertisement for iOS Maps Application Developer.
Apple entices potential applicants encouraging them to “Come work for the team that revolutionized the mobile technology in... |
4 May 2011
07:50 GMT |
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After spending 14 years building carbon fiber bicycles at Kestral Bicycles, Kevin Kenney, an expert in the material, has been hired by Apple as Senior Composites Engineer. Cupertino is expected to start producing carbon-fiber shells for its portable devices, including the iPad and the MacBook Air.
It has been reve... |
11 April 2011
10:05 GMT |
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Apple is beefing up its PR staff with two high-profile communication directors from giant console maker Nintendo and video-game studio Activision, sources tell MCV.The gaming-centric website claims to have heard that current Nintendo UK communications boss, Robert Saunders is to join Apple’s Public Relations te... |
11 April 2011
05:02 GMT |
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Apple is providing irrefutable clues that the next major iOS release, perhaps coupled with a new iPad announcement as well, will include a service that heavily focuses on a location-based feature rumored to be found in a forthcoming version of MobileMe. Not one, but two job postings seeking an ‘iOS Maps Applic... |
28 March 2011
04:41 GMT |
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Digg founder Kevin Rose has a post on Apple Japan’s contribution after the earthquake on Friday, quoting an Apple retail employee from Tokio.The unnamed Apple Store manager is friends with Mr. Rose. ''The earthquake hit while I was working on the first floor of one of their stores. As the entire... |
15 March 2011
07:46 GMT |
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A job posting on Apple’s official website indicates that the company’s online store is to be revamped by a team of software engineers. The minimum required experience is 8 years (in a professional development environment), just to give readers an idea of how serious Apple is about whipping its online stor... |
8 March 2011
02:39 GMT |
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Following rumors of Apple working on enhanced "voice navigation" features the iPhone, Apple has posted three separate job openings for “iOS Speech Operations Engineer,” in what is clearly an attempt to beef up the company’s development teams focusing on voice control in iOS. However, an opening for ... |
7 March 2011
02:50 GMT |
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Quoted by a blog dealing with Apple news and rumors, a person allegedly on Apple's payroll said that Apple’s event today will include two major announcements - MobileMe revamp and the iPad 2 - but that the real excitement will be when Apple unveils iPad 3 later this year. According to the alleged Apple st... |
2 March 2011
09:21 GMT |
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Re-igniting iPhone nano / iPhone mini rumors, a person visiting an Apple retail store yesterday was reportedly talked out of a purchase by the salesmen who implied that today’s announcements could make her change her mind.The story comes from Cultofmac reader Lovell, who said “I had a friend go to apple t... |
2 March 2011
03:52 GMT |
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Indicted in August 2011 over taking kickbacks from Apple’s Asian suppliers, Paul Devine pleaded guilty in a San Jose federal court to accusations of wire fraud, conspiracy and money laundering.
In April 2010, Apple reportedly found evidence of the kickback scheme on Devine’s laptop.
Various email co... |
1 March 2011
06:25 GMT |
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The rumored meeting for Apple retail store employees has been confirmed by several sources. The details are now out: Apple has trained staffers to offer advanced and priority technical support to small businesses, in what is the company's upcoming "Joint Venture" service.Earlier this month, an Apple-centric sour... |
1 March 2011
04:42 GMT |
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The person Apple had appointed as director of global music initiatives in 2003, Alex Luke, has left the Cupertino-based company to join U.K.-based EMI. Luke will serve as an executive vice president of A&R with EMI’s Capitol & Virgin Label Group. His office will be based in Los Angeles.
According to 9to5mac,... |
20 December 2010
03:31 GMT |
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