In a rare instance of investors defying Apple, shareholders approved an outside proposal requiring audits of Apple’s civil-rights impact…
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Monica Lozano joins Apple’s board of directors
Apple today announced that Monica Lozano, president and CEO of College Futures Foundation, has been elected to Apple’s board of directors…
Apple has become a dividend powerhouse
Apple has become a dividend powerhouse. At the end of October, Apple’s Board declared a cash dividend of $0.205 per share of the…
Disney CEO Bob Iger resigns from Apple’s Board of Directors
The Disney CEO left Apple’s Board on September 10th, the same day Apple unveiled details on its forthcoming Apple TV+ streaming service…
Apple’s hire of Disney+ video executive creates questions about Disney CEO Bob Iger remaining on Apple’s Board
Apple Inc. has hired a former executive from Walt Disney Co.’s startup streaming service…
Disney CEO Iger says Disney+ likely coming to Apple TV, intends to stay on Apple’s Board of Directors
Following Disney’s announcement regarding pricing and availability of its Disney+ streaming service…
Apple-backed Southern Poverty Law Center wracked in turmoil, called a ‘con’ for ‘bilking gullible liberals’
In August 2017, following the Charlottesville riots, Apple made a contribution of $1 million to the Southern Poverty Law Center…
Apple’s streaming video plans put Disney CEO Bob Iger’s board seat at risk
Apple Inc.’s foray into original TV shows and movies is increasing competition with Walt Disney Co…
Ralph Nader once again assails Apple’s stock buybacks
Multiple U.S. presidential campaign failure Ralph Nader…
Ralph Nader’s open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook demands suspension of $100 billion buyback plan; instead wants Apple to pay full year’s pay bonus to Foxconn workers, rec centers across the U.S., and more
Erstwhile politician and consumer protection/environmentalist activist Ralph Nadar has demanded…
Apple leaves overseas cash out of its latest quarterly report
A key figure disappeared from Apple Inc.’s latest quarterly report….
Apple services segment faces margin, competitive challenges
Apple Inc is betting on services such as app downloads and music subscriptions to help drive growth…
What Apple’s $100 billion buyback plan says about President Trump’s tax cuts
The Republican tax cuts are paying off bigtime for Apple shareholders…
Apple plows U.S. tax cuts into record share buybacks
Apple Inc lavished cash on its shareholders like no company in history in the first three months of the year…
Apple CEO Cook meets with members of the Congressional Black Caucus to discuss diversity
For members of the Congressional Black Caucus, who arrived in the Bay Area on Monday, the tech sector…
Black lawmakers will visit Silicon Valley next week to talk to Apple about diversity
A record number of black lawmakers will be visiting Silicon Valley next week to ask executives at Apple…
Apple’s VP of Inclusion and Diversity leaving at year’s end
Apple’s first-ever vice president of diversity and inclusion, Denise Young Smith…
Apple diversity chief Denise Young Smith apologizes to staff for statements made at summit
Apple VP of Inclusion and Diversity Denise Young Smith on Friday issued an internal memo to apologize…
Apple’s first ever VP of diversity and inclusion says she focuses on everyone, not just minorities
Denise Young Smith is Silicon Valley’s most powerful black woman…
Fired Google engineer Damore says the company is hiring and promoting workers based on race or gender
I’m saying that people that go into tech are interested in ‘things’ versus ‘people’ generally…
Here’s why the tech industry doesn’t need more female software engineers
I feel quite strongly that people should stop trying to get women into coding and software engineering…
Apple’s new Vice President of Inclusion and Diversity will report directly to CEO Tim Cook
Apple’s head of Worldwide Human Resources Denise Young Smith will now run diversity programs…
Apple CEO Tim Cook: ‘U.S. will lose its leadership in technology’ unless more women are hired
Apple CEO Tim Cook says that society, including the tech community, is not moving fast enough on issues like equal rights and diversity…
Apple’s board has urged shareholders to reject proposal to tie executive compensation to racial diversity quotas
Apple shareholders will decide next week whether to force the tech giant to diversify its leadership…
Apple Inc. fights shareholders group demand for more diversity
Silicon Valley has a long way to go on diversity, but most tech companies would argue…
Apple’s Board of Directors grants activist shareholder one of three wishes
Apple Inc’s board relaxed some rules for director nominations by outside investors but stopped short…
Apple BoD member Al Gore to campaign for Hillary Clinton, hoping to mobilize young voters who think climate change is key issue
Al Gore will start campaigning for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, according to individuals briefed on the plan…
Apple says it now pays women, men, whites and minorities equally in the U.S.
Apple says that it has achieved its goal of establishing equal pay for women and men…
Apple touts diversity of recent hires
Apple Inc. Wednesday reported small increases in the share of women and minorities working at the tech giant…
Apple reschedules earnings for Bill Campbell memorial
Apple’s second quarter earnings announcement has been rescheduled out of respect for the friends and family of Bill Campbell…
Tim Bajarin: In memory of Bill Campbell
He really was a giant among men and will be greatly missed…
Bill Campbell dead at 75
Bill Campbell, who garnered the name ‘The Coach’ for the sage advice and counsel he gave numerous tech leaders including Apple’s Steve Jobs…
An Apple dividend increase is imminent
Apple is scheduled to report earnings on April 27. An earnings report from Apple usually makes big waves…
Apple will increase its dividend this month, but don’t get too excited
Each year in April, Apple updates its capital return program…
Priorities in a time of plenty: How Apple is managed is one of its enduring mysteries
The idea that a company with $235 billion in sales is managed with a single P/L is fascinating…
Apple: What’s the 2016 dividend raise?
While Apple produces tremendous cash flow each quarter, investors know that most of these funds are located outside the U.S.
Apple inches toward workforce diversity
Apple’s diversity divide narrowed a smidgen over the past year, with its global workforce gaining ever so slightly…
Diversity report shows Apple’s U.S. workforce still mainly white and male
Apple’s U.S. workforce is a bit more diverse than it was a year ago, but still predominantly white and male…
Apple’s Board of Directors says a call for diversity is ‘unduly burdensome and not necessary’
Apple’s eight-member board is dominated by white men, with three exceptions…
Campaigners praise Apple shareholder move while opponents warn
Apple’s decision to give long-term shareholders a greater say in boardroom appointments…
Apple offers proxy access, making shareholder nominations to the board easier
Apple said its board of directors had adopted amended bylaws Monday that allow a shareholder, or a group of up to 20 shareholders…
Disney CEO: Apple TV provides best user experience ever
Robert Iger, chairman and chief executive officer at Walt Disney Company…
