By Jacob Kleinman |
Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer both testified in D.C. in front of the U.S. Senate Tuesday, but as of this morning the The New York Times didn’t let up in its assault on the company’s corporate tax practices. The news outlet recently reported that Congress has exposed a global web…
By Jacob Kleinman |
A day before Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer are scheduled to speak in front of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation, the Cupertino-based company released a statement defending its status as a job creator in America and denying earlier claims that the…
By Roy Choi |
Come the morning of May 21 Apple CEO Tim Cook will sit before a U.S. Senate committee where he will likely be asked to defend Apple’s $100 billion cash pile that currently sits in off shore accounts to avoid taxes. This comes on the heels…
By Ron Duwell |
Apple CEO Tim Cook has been summoned by the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations to testify on the company’s offshore tax practices. It is believed to have a horde of about $100 billion overseas, and that is money it does not have to pay…
By Brandon Russell |
Bidding has been closed for the CharityBuzz auction that promised the highest bidder coffee with Apple CEO Tim Cook. The final price? $610,00, trumping the half million dollar figure at the end of April; initial estimates said the coffee date was worth at least $50,000.…
By Brandon Russell |
Jon R. is back to tackle more questions and queries from Buffalo readers, viewers and fans! In this episode of Ask the Buffalo, Jon shares his opinion on Tim Cook’s ability to bounce Apple back to the top, predicts when we will see Android 4.3…
By Todd Haselton |
The charity auction for Tim Cook was recently marred by a bid by someone who used a stolen credit card to place a $605,000 bid, Fortune said. That’s a pretty nice credit limit and the revelation explains why the auction is now sitting pretty with…
By Todd Haselton |
Just two days ago we covered a charity that’s offering coffee with Tim Cook. You’ll need to win an auction to meet with Cook, of course, but at the time the value was estimated at $50,000. Now it’s worth more than a half of a…
By Todd Haselton |
Want to have a coffee with Apple CEO Tim Cook out in Cupertino? Love charity? Now’s your chance to make a move. The head of Apple is currently offering to sit down in Apple’s headquarters for a cup of coffee with the lucky winner in…
By Brandon Russell |
Apple CEO Tim Cook on Tuesday said increasing the iPhone’s display to 5-inches would include too many negative “tradeoffs” over the current 4-inch form factor, including worse resolution, color, white balance and compatibility with apps. The question was brought up during Apple’s earnings call this…
By Todd Haselton |
In a bizarre move out of the the company’s typically secretive business practices, Apple CEO Tim Cook suggested rather clearly that Apple will not launch any new products until the fall of this year. That means we might not even see a new iPad until…
By Adriana Lee |
Is Apple secretly CEO shopping? That’s what anonymous “Wall Street” sources tell Forbes writer Gene Marcial. Of course, a healthy dose of skepticism is always warranted whenever unnamed sources are involved, and concrete evidence of a Tim Cook–overthrow is hard to come by. Even so,…
By Brandon Russell |
Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked on Wednesday what he thought of Android’s unstoppable growth in the smartphone market, and what he planned to do about it. Frankly, Cook said Apple doesn’t plan to adopt the more is better approach, and instead will tightly focus…
By Brandon Russell |
During Apple’s shareholder meeting on Wednesday, CEO Tim Cook confirmed the company is “looking at new categories” for the upcoming year. Cook admitted the company could go in new directions in the future, but stopped short of what he actually means by that. I can…
By Todd Haselton |
The rumor that Apple is working on a cheaper iPhone simply won’t stop. We believe it’s absolutely possible that Apple’s working on an entry-level phone that will meet a more affordable price point in China and other emerging smartphone markets, but it seems totally unlike…
By Todd Haselton |
President Barack Obama will be on stage addressing the United States on Tuesday during his State of the Union speech, and his wife will be sitting next to none other than Apple CEO Tim Cook. The news was revealed by ContraCostaTimes on Monday, which didn’t say…
By Todd Haselton |
Apple CEO Tim Cook will take home $4.17 million in 2012, a far cry from the $378 million he made last year. Why is there such a big difference in the exec’s compensation? Cook won’t take home stock rewards this year, Bloomberg said. Cook’s final compensation…
By Sean P. Aune |
Where do you take a company when it is considered the most valuable company in the world? What do you do to keep it fresh? While Apple CEO Tim Cook is tight lipped as ever, he definitely dropped some hints in an interview with NBC’s…
By Todd Haselton |
New Mac owners are already receiving computers stamped with the label “assembled in the U.S.A” but the company still employs Foxconn for most of its manufacturing abroad. That’s about to change, however. Tim Cook recently confirmed with NBC that Apple will manufacture a single line of…
By Brandon Russell |
Tim Cook, Apple CEO and replacement to Steve Jobs, is perceived as an affable and passionate diplomat whose temperament, while not quite as enthralling as Jobs, is calm and enthusiastic. His presence hasn’t quite achieved rock star status, but that in no way means he…
By Todd Haselton |
Former Apple sales exec David Sobotta recently discussed what it was like to work for Apple in a new book titled The Pomme Company, which covers his 20-year tenure at the firm until 2004. He worked with Tim Cook, but never reported to him directly…
By Todd Haselton |
Apple on Monday provided a glimpse into early sales of the iPad mini and the fourth generation iPad, both of which went on sale last Friday. The company said that it sold three million iPads, which includes every model it currently offers, in just three…
By Brandon Russell |
Apple’s Bob Mansfield wasn’t the only one who didn’t see eye-to-eye with Scott Forstall. According to Bloomberg, Jony Ive, who is responsible for designing the company’s iconic iPhone, rarely met with Forstall, and in fact didn’t even include the iOS architect in regular input meetings.…
By Brandon Russell |
Today is a significant day in Apple history. After numerous rumors and endless leaks, the company is finally letting its iPad mini loose — a smaller version of the iPad 2 equipped with Apple’s new Lightning connector. Don’t call it a 7-inch tablet, because it’s…
