Intel: It's not as bad as it looks

Memory prices are bruising profit margins, but CEO Paul Otellini says the chip giant can still thrive.

CEO Paul Otellini spent 2007 restoring investor faith in Intel; thanks to a slow economy and eroding memory prices, he's got more work to do. Image: Intel

Facing flagging profit margins and a skeptical Wall Street, Intel (INTC) CEO Paul Otellini hosted investors at the company's Silicon Valley headquarters Wednesday. His message: Despite a MORE

Making the iPhone work for business

By Jon Fortt and Michal Lev-Ram

Will Apple give up some control over the iPhone in order to court corporate customers?

That's one of the juiciest questions surrounding a gathering on Apple's (AAPL) campus Thursday, where CEO Steve Jobs has promised to open up the iPhone's software secrets to the world for the first time. Apple's invitation to the event also hinted at new business-friendly features for the device, and Silicon MORE

Analyst: Apple to exceed 10 million iPhone goal by nearly 30%

Not much news was committed by Apple (AAPL) at its annual shareholders' meeting Tuesday in Cupertino -- although the shareholders did manage to make headlines by passing a referendum (which the company opposed) that gives them a nonbinding say on executive compensation. "I'm hoping that the 'say on pay' proposal will help me with my $1 a year," Jobs quipped after the measure passed.

But as Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster MORE

Steve Jobs under the microscope

Fortune magazine investigative reporter Peter Elkind, who co-authored The Smartest Guys in the Room, the definitive account of the Enron meltdown, spent the better part of a year investigating Steve Jobs. He talked to more than 50 people who knew and worked with Jobs, including former Apple (AAPL) CEOs and current members of the board -- nearly everybody, it seems, except Jobs, who refused to be interviewed for the piece.

The MORE