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Apple builds new team to bring more wireless chips in-house
Apple is in the process of building a new team of engineers for a new office in Southern California to develop wireless chips that could…
Joel Podolny, longtime dean of Apple University, leaves for startup
Joel Podolny, the longtime dean of Apple University, the company’s in-house management training school, left Apple to join a startup…
26 years ago, Pixar’s IPO made Steve Jobs a billionaire
26 years ago, the initial public offering of Pixar made Steve Jobs, who owned upward of 80% of the company, a billionaire…
iPod inventor, Tony Fadell, looks back as iPod turns 20
The man who would go on to become known as “The Father of the iPod” initially balked at the idea. “I was like, ‘whoa whoa,'” Fadell…
Apple’s App Tracking Transparency bites Snap’s ads business, shares drop 25% as revenue fall short
Snap on Thursday fell short of revenue estimates as the owner of photo messaging app Snapchat said Apple’s App Tracking Transparency …
Michael Dell: Apple innovation ‘certainly different than what Steve would have done’
On October 6, 1997, in response to the question of what he’d do if he was in charge of Apple, Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell stood before…
Today is the 10th anniversary of Steve Jobs’ death
Today marks the 10th anniversary of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ death. Jobs died at his Palo Alto, California home on October 5, 2011…
Steve Jobs once threw a prototype iPhone across a room full of reporters
Months before Apple’s iPhone went on sale in June 2007, a little after Steve Jobs unveiled the “Jesus Phone” in January 2007, Apple’s CEO…
Apple CEO Tim Cook to get $750 million payout this week
Apple CEO Tim Cook will this week collect the 10th and final tranche of the pay deal, worth some $750 million, that he received a decade ago…
Apple stock loses ‘wow factor’ without Steve Jobs
It’s been exactly 10 years since Steve Jobs resigned as Apple’s CEO. And Apple stock definitely lost much of its wow factor in the S&P 500…
Apple II manual signed by Steve Jobs sells for $787,483 at auction
After garnering 46 bids, an Apple II manual signed by Steve Jobs and Mike Markkula sold for $787,484 at auction this month…
Steve Jobs’ final visit to Kyoto
Steve Jobs was particularly fond of Kyoto and over the course of 25 years, he got to know the ancient Japanese capital well…
Steve Jobs email confirms Apple mulled tablet Mac, 15-inch MacBook Air in 2007
An internal email written by late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs that was made public as part of discovery in Epic v. Apple and highlighted by…
Four U.S. Congressmen: Apple is ‘a pawn in China’s malfeasance’
Four U.S. Congressmen have accused Apple of being “a pawn in China’s malfeasance” by risking users privacy in the CCP-controlled country…
Tim Cook’s Apple is built in China; now it has to answer to the Chinese Communist Party
Tens of thousands of apps have disappeared from Apple’s App Store in China over the past several years, more than previously known…
Steve Jobs called Facebook ‘Fecebook’ in newly revealed email
Internal Apple emails show the company was battling with Facebook for at least a decade. In the emails, Jobs calls Facebook, “Fecebook.”
Steve Jobs personally shot Desktop Pictures for Mac OS X Leopard
Steve Jobs personally shot several of the images presented as desktop pictures for 2007’s Mac OS X Leopard …
How beleaguered Intel fell so far behind
Apple still makes Macs with Intel chips, but nobody really wants them. They’re the past, not the future. Even Apple’s entry-leve M1 chip runs…
Apple celebrates 45th birthday
Today, April 1, 2021, Apple celebrates its 45th birthday! Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne on April 1, 1976…
Judge rules Swatch can use Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ ‘One more thing’ phrase
“One more thing,” Steve Jobs would say at the end of select Apple special media event keynote addresses, giving his cue for announcing…
Steve Jobs warned Jeff Bezos that iTunes would kill CD sales
Just before the release of iTunes for Windows, Apple CEO Steve Jobs warned Amazon founder Jeff Bezos that iTunes would kill CD sales …
Steve Jobs’ job application sells at auction for $222,394
A job application completed and signed by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has sold at auction for about $222,000. Bck in 2018, the same…
The best $400 million Apple, or any other company, ever spent
In the late 1990s, Apple was in big trouble. Thankfully, Apple’s CEO Gil Amelio made the best business decision he’s ever made…
Apple’s longtime App Store developer relations chief Ron Okamoto retires
Apple’s executive in charge of App Store developer relations, Ron Okamoto, has retired and the role has been taken over by a key marketing…
Today is the 66th anniversary of Steve Jobs’ birth
Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955. Today would have been his 66th birthday, had the co-founder of Apple Inc. had not succumbed…
How Tim Cook transformed Apple after Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was a visionary. Tim Cook, by most accounts, is not. But, what Cook lacks in showmanship and inventiveness, he makes up for in…
In bid to overturn $15.7 billion Apple tax verdict, EU claims court made errors
EU antitrust bureaucrats have claimed a court made legal errors when it scrapped their 13 billion euro ($15.7B) Apple tax grab in Ireland…
Apple Watch Series 7 said to feature non-invasive blood glucose monitoring
The Apple Watch Series 7 due later this year will feature blood glucose monitoring via an optical sensor. Measuring blood glucose levels…
It’s official: Flash is dead as Adobe blocks Flash content entirely
It’s official: Flash is dead. After Adobe dropped support for Flash Player and continued to strongly recommend that all users immediately…
Elon Musk becomes richest person on earth
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has held title of world’s richest person since October 2017, but he’s now been surpassed by Elon Musk whose…
Apple Car said to be at least five years away
Apple has small team of hardware engineers working on an actual vehicle, but development is still at least five years away…
Adobe strongly recommends all users immediately uninstall Flash Player – here’s how
Adobe will block Flash content in Flash Player beginning January 12, 2021, Adobe strongly recommends all users immediately uninstall Flash…
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…
Steve Jobs’ grand plan comes together in Apple’s M1 chip
Apple’s M1 chip is an essential piece of Steve Jobs’ grand plan which Apple is still executing nearly a decade after his passing…
Today is the ninth anniversary of Steve Jobs’ death
Today marks the 9th anniversary of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ death. Jobs died at his Palo Alto, California home on October 5, 2011…
Apple: ‘We have always abided by the law in Ireland,’ as EU appeals tax grab loss
On Friday, Apple said it has always complied with Irish tax laws and that the issue which led to an EU tax order of 13 billion euros…
Apple court triumph forces tough choice for Vestager’s EU tax crusade
Apple’s July court triumph over a massive European Union tax grab is forcing antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager to make a tough choice…
Apple increasingly focused on succession plan for post-Tim Cook future
Apple CEO Tim Cook and his deputies are increasingly focused on a succession plan as Cook enters his 10th year as Apple’s CEO…
Gene Munster: There is a clear path for Apple to $3 trillion market value
Apple’s market cap hit $2 trillion on Wednesday. Is $3 trillion possible? Yes, it is.The milestone give longtime Apple analyst Gene Munster…
Apple CEO Tim Cook becomes a billionaire
Apple keeps rising, driving the company Steve Jobs co-founded 44 years ago to new heights and its CEO, Tim Cook, a newly-minted billionaire …
How Apple’s Tim Cook builds upon Steve Jobs’ successes
Apple, led by Tim Cook and now the world’s most valuable company, continues to dominate the smartphone market which Steve Jobs created…
