“Just another day in Palo Alto: Apple (AAPL) had a sharp gap down this morning, apparently as rumors circulated that Apple COO Tim Cook was going to be offered the top spot at Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), which continues to seek a replacement for Mark Hurd and which is holding its analyst day today,” Tiernan Ray reports for Barron’s.
“Not true, says Gleacher & Co.’s Brian Marshall, who follows Apple,” Ray reports.
Ray reports, “He called me a short while ago to say he’d just run into Tim Cook in Palo Alto, had coffee, and asked him about the rumor. ‘Tim Cook will not be going to HP, he loves Apple,’ Marshall tells me Cook told him.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “iWill” for the heads up.]
At this point I have to wonder whether the rumor was an intentional ploy to shake out weak holders.
Who started this rumor?
Who started this rumor?
OR maybe he can’t move because he would have a non compete clause in his very lucrative Apple contract.
OR maybe he can’t move because he would have a non compete clause in his very lucrative Apple contract.
File this under “D’uh”.
File this under “D’uh”.
As if we know what goes on behind closed doors…
As if we know what goes on behind closed doors…
@_Bill_: The rumor got started because Tim Cook would obviously be on a list of Top 5 people to target to take over HP. I would be more stunned if the executive search firm looking for HP’s Next Top Executive didn’t call Tim Cook first.
I’m sure the phone cal went something like this:
“Hi Tim, this is Blah McBlahstein at Blahblah Executive Search. As you know HP is looki…”
“Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha…” [click].
Then Tim tells his wife, “HP called asking me to be their CEO. I declined.”
And his wife tells her friend, “HP asked Tim to be their CEO.”
And her friend blogs, “Tim Cook is going to be HP’s CEO.”
And Apple’s stock price craters for a day.
@_Bill_: The rumor got started because Tim Cook would obviously be on a list of Top 5 people to target to take over HP. I would be more stunned if the executive search firm looking for HP’s Next Top Executive didn’t call Tim Cook first.
I’m sure the phone cal went something like this:
“Hi Tim, this is Blah McBlahstein at Blahblah Executive Search. As you know HP is looki…”
“Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha…” [click].
Then Tim tells his wife, “HP called asking me to be their CEO. I declined.”
And his wife tells her friend, “HP asked Tim to be their CEO.”
And her friend blogs, “Tim Cook is going to be HP’s CEO.”
And Apple’s stock price craters for a day.
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What’s wrong MDN? Can’t handle the truth that your app is horribly unstable and offers zero advantage over the standard mobile webpage?