President Barack Obama today will face a group of executives including Apple’s Tim Cook and Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer whose companies are pushing the U.S. to curb broad government spying on communications.
Julianna Goldman reports on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg West.”
The list of tech exec. attendees at today’s meeting:
• Tim Cook, CEO, Apple
• Dick Costolo, CEO, Twitter
• Chad Dickerson, CEO, Etsy
• Reed Hastings, Co-Founder & CEO, Netflix
• Drew Houston, Founder & CEO, Dropbox
• Marissa Mayer, President and CEO, Yahoo!
• Burke Norton, Chief Legal Officer, Salesforce
• Mark Pincus, Founder, Chief Product Officer & Chairman, Zynga
• Shervin Pishevar, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Sherpa Global
• Brian Roberts, Chairman & CEO, Comcast
• Erika Rottenberg, Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, LinkedIn
• Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook
• Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google
• Brad Smith, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Microsoft
• Randall Stephenson, Chairman & CEO, AT&T
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Tim didn’t say “great.”
He said “grate,” as in “to irritate or annoy persistently; to produce a harsh rasping sound: to grate on the ear.“
You described yourself perfectly. Do you sit on this website all day waiting to be the first to say something negative about the President the second it’s posted?
I’d do it if I wasn’t so busy working to survive in the worst economy since Carter (I lived it, know what I’m talking about) and being forced by our tyrannical government to buy a product or have my property sized. And you know the man is in the closet,right? Why Cook sucked up to him…
I guess you forgot that we had a global melt down before he even took office. I know, I lived it!
Obummer wants to know how to improve it? Easy, take it offline. Vast improvement.
Whoops. Wrong article.
Sounds like the right article to me – Take the NSA offline. Vast improvement. 😛
Micro$oft sent a lawyer. Ha!
the learnt from long experience dealing with the Government.
Google sent the Mole.
Tim: Mr President, my company is creating whole new categories of products, leading the world, giving people whole new ways to access knowledge. So why is YOUR DOJ suing my company?
B’rack: Huh?
Tim: You know, you are just helping Amazon to continue their monopoly. It really is not helping consumers.
B’rack: What?
Tim: Umm, nevermind…
He doesn’t have the balls to say that…literally….
Only six comments? C’mon, MDNers: we’ve got both Obama and Cook in the headline; where’s the HATE?
While Tim Cook was entertaining POTUS, Apple’s share price slipped a few more dollars and sank below $500 billion in market cap. I’m not sure Tim Cook should be dividing his time between Apple and anything else outside of the company. I noticed one of the top CEOs around, Jeff Bezos, didn’t waste his time kissing up to POTUS. I’m sure he was busy trying to put more shareholder value into Amazon.
Amazon would have to earn a profit in order to do that. That’d be the day. All Bezos’ has right now is an illusion of profits, why would a shareholder rest on that?
No hate necessary.
Any meeting with Obama that went “great” is very suspicious. The Liar and Chief must have promised Tim something significant. Hmmm
You do realize that the title would be “Liar in Chief”, don’t you? Like Commander in Chief, or Editor in Chief
Typical right-wing populist: Convinced he’s right about everything. Dumb as rocks.
Typical right-wing joke that goes over the head of the typical left-wing know-it-all can’t see his ass for the trees. Talk about stop-pid….
Useless. Obama does not care what the American people feel about the NSA program. He will not take anything away from this meeting. The meeting will only give the tech giants the illusion that they can change the direction of government.
Nothing more than a very belated photo-op to make it appear he’s doing something useful. Damage has long been done.
Tim Cook is very smart and apolitical. He’s the right man to helm Apple during these times. Jobs knew what he was doing when he anointed Cook as successor.
Whatever. Cook uses Apple resources for his personal/political uses as much as any other corporate officer.
It is simply not in the job description to be an executive and also be apolitical. To get anointed as a modern feudal lord, you have to be a shrewd politician.
Why does everyone think Cook, or Apple in general, is an exception to the rules of modern business?
I have to respectfully disagree.
Cook has taken on Icahn, the Department of Justice, numerous copycat competitors around the globe, envious governments who want a bigger piece of the Apple pie and so on.
He gets it.
Mike is a resident troll, no amount of respect is necessary.
I was hoping to be dazzled by his keen and witty insight.
I noticed Bezos wasn’t there. Did he get a private meeting in the pool house?
His drone broke down on the way…
I wonder how many in this tech meeting left saying to themselves, “This was the biggest waste of my time in all of 2013”?
In the end, it doesn’t matter what Obama says, you have to watch what he does.
The other day Obama blasted Republicans for all their negativity on Obamacare, so he asked for what would they do, Tom Colburn, a Republican, who is also a doctor, who has a plan said on Greata that he took Obama up on his offer and called The White House to speak to Obama regarding health care ideas. Greta asked what was the White House response? CRICKETS, he said.
Ugh, cut myself off…
Here is the link to Doctor Colburn’s ideas that the president didn’t have time to listen to…
http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public/?p=Healthcare
So regarding NSA, I wonder how much that went into Obama’s grey matter, actually stayed there?
We’ll see what prevails…
Did you READ his proposal? No individual mandate…but you’re auto-enrolled into coverage. How is it paid? A tax credit…one that can ONLY be spent on healthcare coverage.
Do you really see a material difference to the ACA?
You know Joe did the seating arrangement…
Watch out for “Groping Joe” Marissa!!!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2525447/Obama-hijacks-tech-executive-meeting-changes-subject-NSA-surveillance-healthcare-gov-fixes.html
By the end of this week, President Obama’s face will be stinging from all the slapping he’s received for his NSA surveillance crimes. Hopefully, next week we’ll see the beginning of the end of this atrocity against human privacy.