Its campus "bursting at the seams," the company gobbles up another slice of its home town
Click to enlarge. Source: Silicon Valley Mercury News
In the second major expansion of its corporate headquarters in four years, Apple (AAPL) has purchased a 98-acre parcel of land in Cupertino, according to a report in Thursday's Silicon Valley Mercury News
The new parcel -- formerly the Cupertino campus of Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) -- is adjacent to MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 25, 2010 5:32 AM ET
Planned consumer electronics spending is up this year, and Apple is driving much of it
Click to enlarge. Source: ChangeWave Research
Apple (AAPL) is the hero of a survey of 2,812 American consumers released Wednesday to members of the ChangeWave network.
The survey, conducted earlier this month, asked mostly high-end consumers about their home entertainment shopping plans for the holidays, including such products as laptops, desktops, iPads, e-readers and other personal MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 24, 2010 2:44 PM ET
Tony Hsieh, CEO of the quirky online shoe retailer, on how the company has changed since it joined forces with Amazon.com.
When Amazon (AMZN) acquired Zappos in 2009, CEO Tony Hsieh wrote a truly funny, clever and informative letter to his employees, which he posted on his blog, about why he and Zappos's other investors were selling out. A year later he amended the memo, essentially providing a scorecard a year MORE
Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - Nov 24, 2010 11:52 AM ET
Is Andy Rubin's appearance at a technology conference Google's opportunity to launch Android 2.3?
Google's new Campus mascott
IntoMobile speculates that Andy Rubin's appearance at the D conference on December 6 and 7 will be the launching point of the next major release of the Android OS.
Mr. Android, aka Andy Rubin, will be making an appearance at an upcoming show in San Francisco on the 6th of December. The show is "D: Dive MORE
Seth Weintraub - Nov 24, 2010 11:05 AM ET
Nearly three out of four switched from giant China Mobile, according to China's No. 2 carrier
Graphic: iPhonAsia
A Deutsche Bank note to clients issued Wednesday has culled several interesting Apple (AAPL) data points from Chinese-language reports:
China Unicom (CHU), Apple's exclusive iPhone carrier on the mainland, claims it now has more than 1 million iPhone contract users
73% of those users are also China Mobile (CHL) subscribers, something the carrier knows because MORE
Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff shows that he knows how to work a room, at Larry Ellison's expense.
I'm convinced that the ability to promote one's self or one's company is an innate rather than a learned trait. That doesn't mean someone can't try. But they'll never be as good as the born showman, like, for example, the chief executive of Salesforce.com (CRM), Marc Benioff. (To many, he's still The Big Benioff, as MORE
Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - Nov 24, 2010 9:22 AM ET
"Channel checks" come under suspicion in a government probe of insider trading
"Wall Street analysts have been left bewildered," writes Susan Pulliam in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal, "as federal prosecutors begin to home in on insider-trading cases that appear to involve routinely published information about public-company supply chains."
Case in point: Apple (AAPL), a hot stock with an unusually secretive corporate culture. Today, dozens of analysts and so-called MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 24, 2010 7:58 AM ET
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.
A federal court jury awarded Oracle $1.3 billion, the largest such sum in the books, deeming SAP guilty of copyright infringement. Filed in 2007, the lawsuit alleged that SAP illegally downloaded more than 8 million instances of Oracle's MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Nov 24, 2010 6:00 AM ET
Some career advice from a pro: When considering a second act, don't forget about your first.
Quattrone at Web 2.0 (Kevin Krejci/Flickr)
Here is what has amazed me about Frank Quattrone's second coming, nicely chronicled recently by Fortune's Mina Kimes. Quattrone decided, after a career of accomplishments and some devastating professional setbacks, to be exactly what he's best at: an investment banker.
It all seems obvious now. Quattrone goes way back with MORE
Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - Nov 23, 2010 11:46 PM ET
A strong, but not a blockbuster showing, according to the New York Times
Source: Apple Inc.
It may not have been a day we'll never forget, as Apple's (AAPL) teaser promised, but the launch of the Beatles on iTunes did make a splash.
EMI announced Tuesday that in their first week as digital downloads on iTunes, more than 450,000 Beatles albums and 2 million individual tracks were purchased worldwide.
That's better than MORE
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| Bank of America Corp... | 7.24 | -0.06 | -0.86% |
| Ford Motor Co | 12.26 | -0.48 | -3.75% |
| Frontier Communicati... | 4.22 | -0.25 | -5.59% |
| Juniper Networks Inc... | 21.62 | -0.75 | -3.33% |
| Cisco Systems Inc | 19.59 | -0.24 | -1.21% |
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