Steve Jobs

Apple's roller-coaster ride on the Fortune 500 list

From Jobs to Sculley to Spindler to Amelio to Jobs (again) and Cook

FORTUNE -- It's been seven months since Fabio Zambelli retired SetteB.IT, the Italian-language blog with which he'd been covering Apple (AAPL) for more than five years. But he's still tracking the company's progress. When Fortune released its annual listing of America's 500 largest companies over the weekend -- a list that showed Apple rising from 35 in 2011 to MORE

Why the father of disruption theory is worried about Apple

One hundred and two minutes with Clay Christensen and Horace Dediu

FORTUNE -- About 40 minutes into the interview with Clay Christensen that Asymco's Horace Dediu posted Wednesday on his Critical Path podcast, Dediu brings the conversation around to Apple (AAPL).

Christensen, who was Dediu's mentor at Harvard Business School, is best known as the author of The Innovator's Dilemma -- a book that "deeply influenced" Steve Jobs, according to his biographer. It describes how great MORE

An Apple CEO-in-waiting sells 95% of his company shares

The head of iPhone and iPad software sold 64,151 shares Friday worth $38.7 million 

FORTUNE -- Scott Forstall took home a chunk of change Friday.

Taking advantage of Apple's (AAPL) relatively high (but not record) share price, the company's senior vice president for iOS software -- someone often mentioned as possible successor to Steve Jobs and Tim Cook -- sold 64,151 shares at prices ranging from $601 to $605 to clear $38.7 million MORE

Apple wants Steve Jobs' bio excluded from Samsung trial

If it gets its way, the jury will hear no talk of Apple waging thermonuclear war on Android

FORTUNE -- FOSS Patents' Florian Mueller has been reading through the motions Apple (AAPL) and Samsung filed in advance of their upcoming patent trial in the Northern District of California and has come across a few interesting tidbits.

Both sides want to exclude some of the things that have been written about them.

Samsung doesn't want MORE

Apple-Samsung settlement talks set (prematurely) for May

Ordered to meet on 5/21-22. But with more than 50 cases pending, it's probably too early

FORTUNE -- Tim Cook seemed to be putting some distance between himself and Steve Jobs during Tuesday's conference call when he was asked about Apple's (AAPL) flexibility in its ongoing patent disputes with the makers of Google (GOOG) Android phones.

"I've always hated litigation, and I continue to hate it," he replied. "We just want people MORE

Silly rumor of the day: Apple to buy Twitter for $10B

Not going to happen. Not Apple. Not at that price. No matter what Forbes says.

FORTUNE -- At 11:07 a.m. Monday, a brief item hit the business newswires:

Apple may buy Twitter for $10B -- Forbes

At first I assumed it was some kind of mistake. But no, there it was on Forbes.com: A 980-word piece by Eric Jackson, one of their regular contributors, pitching Apple's (AAPL) $10 billion purchase of Twitter as MORE

Who dropped the dime on the Apple e-book five?

Decoding the Department of Justice's antitrust whodunnit

FORTUNE -- At a hearing in a Manhattan federal court Wednesday, attorneys for Apple (AAPL) and two major book publishers said that rather than settling -- as three of their co-defendants had -- they wanted to go to trial to defend themselves against U.S. government charges that they had colluded illegally to raise e-book prices. (See The Apple e-book conspiracy: Three days in January.)

Which means MORE

Today in Tech: Yahoo to kill 50 properties in restructuring

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* Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Scott Thompson announced he's cutting or "transitioning" at least 50 Yahoo properties to focus on core products like Mail, Finance, and Sports. (Techcrunch)

* Still wowed by Facebook's $1 billion purchase of Instagram? Prepare to be wowed again. The company actually wanted twice that initially. (The Wall Street Journal)

* Mobile MORE

Al Gore on Tim Cook for TIME's '100 Most Influential' list

Apple's CEO shares the spotlight with Marc Andreessen, Sheryl Sandberg and Anonymous

Al Gore has nothing but kind words for Steve Jobs' successor. His 200-word write-up begins:

"It is difficult to imagine a harder challenge than following the legendary Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple. Yet Tim Cook, a soft-spoken, genuinely humble and quietly intense son of an Alabama shipyard worker and a homemaker, hasn't missed a single beat."

The magazine identifies Gore as a former MORE

Steve Jobs' wilderness years: The Brent Schlender tapes

The reporter who knew Jobs best discovers a trove of forgotten interviews

Rummaging through a storage shed after Steve Jobs' death, Brent Schlender came across a few dozen interview tapes he had made during 25 years of covering Apple's co-founder for the Wall Street Journal and Fortune. Some were as long as three hours. Some had never been transcribed.

Schlender drew heavily on those recordings to produce Fast Company's May cover story MORE