With Tim Cook as an official guest, the President will be able to look up into the Capitol's VIP box at an Apple figurehead for his second straight State of the Union — except after the year Apple's had, maybe it won't be such an awkward thumbs-up to China this time.
Apple's CEO sat down with the chairman of China Mobile to discuss "matters of cooperation," a phrase that generated immediate excitement — and marks a shift in strategy between Steve Jobs and Cook, who might be seeking a big Chinese contract.
For the second time in a year Apple CEO Tim Cook has travelled to China, and for the second time the purposes of his visit are shrouded in mystery, speculation, and, of course, tech-world chatter about world domination.
After collecting the largest paycheck of any American CEO, Cook 2012's salary topped out at just $4.2 million in Apple's first year without Steve Jobs — still not exactly the Jobsian dollar-a-year policy, especially since it's more than it seems.
Ignoring the will of the people — or at least the hacking collective 4chan, which hacked its online poll in favor of the North Korean Supreme Leader — Time's 2012 Person of the Year shortlist includes the usual mixed bag.
Hoping to achieve what even Steve Jobs once considered the impossible, the largest company in American history will attempt to actually make a major product in America, says Apple CEO Tim Cook in a new interview.
A year after executives admitted in a closed door meeting that their management techniques were more comparable to the military than a corporation, Apple is starting soften up and offer employees better perks.
One year ago today Steve Jobs stepped down as CEO of Apple anointing Tim Cook king of the iKingdom and by many metrics he has done a good job as leader of the gadgeteers.
Apple CEO Tim Cook said he would "double down on secrecy on products" earlier this year, but the current pre-iPhone rumor cycle has been at least as leaky as usual, arguably leakier.
Apple's trying harder to look like a pro-America company, giving all of its retail employees raises, according to The Wall Street Journal's Ian Sherr.
This afternoon among Apple's many upgrades and updates, the company announced a bunch of features that other companies are trying to build into businesses. already existed via other non-Apple services.
So here we have it, today we get new, skinnier laptops, an updated iOS with a smarter Siri and smarter maps, plus the brand new Mountain Lion operating system.
Following Google's announcement of its enhanced maps last week, we expect Tim Cook will counter-back during his keynote today at the World Wide Developers Conference.
Speaking at the AllThingsD conference last night, Tim Cook suggested Apple has had its rivalry with Google on the brain, furthering the simmering war between the two companies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An outside executive who got an iPad describes two separate keys and actual handcuffs
Tim Cook's first promotion gives a first look into Jobs-less Apple
The new Apple CEO picked up 1,000,000 shares
The new CEO might not be able to handle uncharted territories
The media can't decide if the CEO's sexual orientation is worth mentioning
Says taking over for Jobs is the "privilege of a lifetime"
Based on Apple's product pipeline, it won't matter for years
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