Apple CEO Tim Cook sitting in Michelle Obama’s box for State of the Union

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For the second year in a row, Apple will be represented at the State of the Union. One year after Michelle Obama invited Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of the late Steve Jobs, to sit in her box at her husband’s annual address, Apple CEO Tim Cook will join the First Lady for Tuesday’s State of… Read More…

Microsoft’s data proves it: We’re obsessed with iPhone

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Tim Cook might want to send a thank you card to Steve Ballmer this morning. It should read like this: Dear Steve, Just wanted to say thank you. Thanks to statistics from your search engine, Bing, we now know that an Apple product was the most-searched item of 2012. Here at Apple, we also enjoy… Read More…

Ballmer on Apple: ‘We’ll give them a run for their money’

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During an interview with Mashable today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was asked for his thoughts on Apple CEO Tim Cook’s characterization of the new Microsoft Surface tablet as “compromised and confusing.” So what does the Microsoft CEO think about that? “We’ll give them a run for their money,” Ballmer said in the interview, saying of… Read More…

Apple CEO Tim Cook on PCs, tablets and avoiding the ‘baggage from the past’

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Microsoft is pitching its upcoming Windows 8 as a “no compromise” experience — working across desktop PCs, notebooks, tablets and hybrid devices — but Apple CEO Tim Cook remains unconvinced that such an approach will be effective. Speaking at AllThingsD’s D10 conference in California last night, Cook expanded on the recent comments in which he likened combining… Read More…

Kickstarter project ‘Brydge’ makes iPad like MacBook Air — no toaster required

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Apple CEO Tim Cook took a thinly veiled jab at Microsoft and Windows PC makers yesterday, saying that the notion of a hybrid tablet/notebook requires so many trade-offs that no one ends up being happy in the end. “You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going to be… Read More…

Apple’s Tim Cook stirs up wild speculation with Valve visit

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Was he there for acquisition talks? Partnership discussions? Trying to convince Gabe Newell to bet bigger on the iPad and other Apple platforms? Or was it just a friendly way for two technology companies to get to know each other? Whatever the reason, Apple CEO Tim Cook was reportedly spotted today at the Bellevue headquarters… Read More…

Top 10 tech CEOs: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos takes a big fall (and Steve Ballmer is nowhere to be found)

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Apple is not only killing it in the stock market and in the living room. The company’s top brass also is winning the respect of employees, with Apple CEO Tim Cook recently being named the most respected tech CEO in the country. According to a report by Glassdoor, Cook scored an approval rating of 97… Read More…

Apple plans dividend, buyback — will pay out $45B over 3 years

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Apple this morning confirmed plans to start issuing a dividend for the first time in 17 years — part of a plan to pay out $45 billion over three years as a means of returning value to shareholders and reducing its cash balance, now approaching $100 billion. A quarterly dividend of $2.65/share will start sometime in… Read More…

Is the Apple dividend coming? CEO Tim Cook schedules press call to discuss company’s ‘cash balance’

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Update, Monday morning: Apple plans dividend, buyback — will pay out $45B over 3 years What’s Apple going to do with all of its cash? That’s been an interesting question for those who closely follow the tech industry, and it looks like an answer may be coming tomorrow morning. The company issued a press release… Read More…