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Tim Cook Is the Grown-Up Boss Apple Never Had

Unlike Steve Jobs who operated like a non-boss boss, running the company as the creative, yet kind of horrible figurehead, Tim Cook is more staid, responsible and reasonable. You know, like a normal boss.

By Rebecca Greenfield

May 22, 2012

Tim Cook's $378 Million Paycheck and History's Most Luxurious Coattails

Tim Cook made $378 million in 2011, more than any CEO in all of America and a little of it had anything to do with his performance.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

May 2, 2012

Apple Exec Who Sold 95 Percent of His Shares Isn't Abandoning Ship

A big 95 percent sell-off of one's stake in a company might indicate a person had some sort of scary insider information about the company's impending implosion. But from the looks of it, Apple Senior Vice President Scott Forstall made his $38.7 million deal not because he plans on leaving a doomed company.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Mar 29, 2012

Tim Cook Brings Smiles to Foxconn Factory

While Mark Zuckerberg's using his China trip for touristy things with girlfriend Priscilla Chan, Apple CEO Tim Cook has taken his China trip to do some Foxconn related PR-cleanup.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Mar 28, 2012

China Thinks It's Apple's Responsibility to Fix Foxconn

Not wanting to take full responsibility for the worker abuses happening in his own country, Chinese senior politician Li Keqiang suggested to Apple CEO Tim Cook he thinks the iMaker should be the one to do the fixing.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Mar 26, 2012

What's Tim Cook Doing in China?

Tim Cook is the first Apple CEO to visit China, but beyond symbolism it's not quite clear what he's up to over there. From the little information secretive the Apple people have doled out plus some Internet sleuthing, we get an idea of what Cook's doing over there.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Feb 15, 2012

Tim Cook Is Just the Face Apple Needs

After yesterday's talk at the Goldman Sachs investment conference, Tim Cook has proven himself a better PR representative for Apple than his predecessor at a time when the company really needs a likable CEO.

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By Eric Randall

Feb 14, 2012

Apple CEO Is Sure You Will Hate Your Cheap Non-Apple Tablet

Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke at a Goldman Sachs technology conference today, and he had some pretty strong opinions on cheaper tablet alternatives to the iPad.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jan 31, 2012

Apple's Customer Service Hire Comes from Company with Bad Customer Service

In a rare out of company hire, Tim Cook has appointed John Browett, current chief executive of British electronics retailer Dixons, to head up Apple's retail arm.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Jan 27, 2012

Apple CEO Says Company Cares About Every Worker

Apple CEO Tim Cook didn't specifically mention The New York Times' exposé on working conditions at Foxconn in his company-wide email yesterday, but it's clear that this was the first attempt at damage control.

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By Eric Randall

Dec 1, 2011

Apple's CEO Offers Very Familiar Apology for the Siri Abortion Thing

After Apple's spokesperson called the fact that voice-command robot Siri has trouble finding abortion clinics a "glitch" that will be fixed, Apple's CEO Tim Cook offered his own apology to Nancy Keenan, president of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League.

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By Eric Randall

Nov 15, 2011

Apple Adds the Disney CEO to Its Board

Apple named Arthur Levinson, a current board member, as its new board chairman, and it also added Disney CEO Bob Iger to the board to fill the seat left by Steve Jobs.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 2, 2011

Tim Cook Is Ridding Apple of Some of Steve Jobs's Evils

Steve Jobs was a revolutionary, but not everything he did was all that peachy, and his successor Tim Cook is trying to steer Apple away from the darker side of things.

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By Adam Martin

Sep 30, 2011