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How Tim Cook is changing Apple
Steve Jobs' successor is making his mark and trying to keep the Apple magic going.
FORTUNE -- In February of this year, a group of investors visited Apple as part of a "bus tour" led by a research analyst for Citibank. The session started with a 45-minute presentation by Peter Oppenheimer, Apple's chief financial officer, and the 15 or so investors who attended the session were treated to Apple's unique brand MORE
Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - May 24, 2012 5:00 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Apple dividend, Apple TV, Foxconn, iPad, iPhone 4S, Mike Daisey, Samsung, Steve Jobs, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, Tim Cook -
Anatomy of an iTV rumor
The latest "confirmation" that Apple is building a TV set turns out to be another soufflé
FORTUNE -- It is perhaps a measure of how badly broken today's commercial TV viewing experience is -- the cookie-cutter sitcoms, the ridiculous reality shows, the ever-shifting channel line-ups, the relentless, merciless commercial breaks -- that the tech press is so desperate to believe even the slimmest rumor that Apple (AAPL) is getting ready to solve MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 14, 2012 8:16 AM ET -
Tell me again. Why do we think Apple will make a TV set?
After four years of speculation there's still not a shred of hard evidence
A lot of analysts talk about Apple's (AAPL) plans to make a television -- an actual TV set, not just a set-top box -- but last week, Jefferies' Peter Misek did something most have been careful not to do.
Citing "increased confidence" that Apple's iTV is coming, he wrote into his published forecasts the revenue from its sales: 2 million MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 17, 2012 4:30 PM ETPosted in: Apple, Apple TV, Bloomberg Businessweek, Foxconn, Gene Munster, Hon Hai, iPad, iPanel, iPhone, iTV, Marco Arment, Peter Misek, Piper Jaffray, Sharp, Steve Jobs -
Today in Tech: Sony firing 10,000 workers in major restructuring effort
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* It's confirmed: As part of a $926 million restructuring effort, Sony (SNE) will lay off 10,000 employees by the end of March 2013. The struggling Japanese electronics giant also explained its plans to focus on core businesses like gaming, digital imaging, and mobile, as well as hopes of turning around MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Apr 12, 2012 11:00 AM ET -
The best video yet from inside a Chinese iPad factory
Radio reporter Rob Schmitz took a microphone AND a camera to the assembly line
It's not as slick as ABC's, and you don't get to see the reporter riding in a van, donning a bunny suit, or chatting up the workers. But Rob Schmitz' simple, hand-held video tour of Foxconn's Shenzhen iPad factory -- posted Wednesday on American Public Media's Marketplace website -- gives you a better feel for what goes MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 12, 2012 6:13 AM ET -
Apple & Foxconn take a radio reporter on an iPad factory tour
The re-burnishing of Apple's corporate image continues
Rob Schmitz gets his reward this week.
The China correspondent for American Public Media's Marketplace -- whose reporting exposed the lies in Mike Daisey's The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs and who joined Ira Glass last month in Daisey's public humiliation on This American Life -- was given an exclusive tour inside an iPad factory, courtesy of Foxconn and Apple (AAPL) public relations.
He's MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 8, 2012 8:13 AM ETPosted in: Apple, China, Foxconn, iPad, Ira Glass, Marketplace, Mike Daisey, New York Times, Rob Schmitz, Steve Jobs, Tablets, This American Life -
Today in Tech: Research in Motion loses more top execs
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* Research in Motion (RIMM) reported earnings for its fiscal fourth quarter, with a net loss of $125 million and 19% decline in revenue to $4.2 billion. Former co-CEO Jim Balsillie, chief technology officer David Yach, and chief operating officer Jim Rowan, are all leaving the company. Meanwhile new CEO Thorsten MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 30, 2012 7:11 AM ETPosted in: Amazon, Android, Apple, Foxconn, Google, Hulu Plus, Jim Balsillie, Kindle Fire, Research in Motion -
No whitewash: The FLA finds dozens of Foxconn violations
"Serious and pressing" problems of overtime, health and safety, low pay, worker rights
Labor rights activists feared the worst when Fair Labor Association president Auret van Heerden, inspecting a Chinese factory at Apple's (AAPL) request, remarked how clean and tranquil he found it -- as if a factory floor where workers are required to wear clean suits would look like the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.
"The facilities are first-class," he told a Reuters reporter after MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 29, 2012 5:30 PM ET -
Tim Cook's China photo album
It's hard for Apple to keep his meetings secret when he's photographed at every turn
The quality of the photos coming out of Tim Cook's China trip improved significantly when Apple (AAPL) assigned a professional photographer to document its CEO's travels.
We know, thanks to press photos and amateur snapshots popping up in Chinese social media, that Cook met with China's vice premier and Beijing's mayor, stopped by two Apple Stores and visited MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 29, 2012 5:49 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Beijing, China, Foxconn, iPhone, Li Keqiang, Steve Jobs, Tim Cook, Vice Premier, Zhengzhou -
Apple's iOS devices: Selling 'em as fast as it can make 'em
The company is ramping up production at ever more impressive rates
Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook often says about the company's iOS devices that it is selling them as fast as it can make them.
In that context, the chart published Tuesday by Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster illustrates what may be Cook's most impressive achievement as COO: The rate at which he has been able to ramp up production.
Five years ago, it took MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 20, 2012 8:05 AM ET
