Apple recently hired the former CEO of Yves Saint Laurent Paul Deneve to work directly with Tim Cook. His new title at Apple will be vice president.
SMH…. Someone Wants To Meet Apple CEO THAT Bad???
A few days ago we told you about Apple CEO auctioning off a coffee meet up on Charity Buzz. Well, someone has increased the winning bid to $605,000 was a done a stolen credit card.
People Are Willing To Pay THIS To Have Coffee With Apple’s CEO???
Charity Buzz started an auction that will benefit the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. One of the auctions was a chance to have coffee With Apple CEO, Tim Cook at the headquarters.
Analysts Say Apple Can’t Innovate Without Steve Jobs!!!
Early this week Forbes lowered it expectations of Apple as a valuable company, now Needam & Co. analyst Charlie Wolf lowered his price target from $750 to $710, citing a slowdown in iPhone sales since the sales of the mobiel device have slowed up over the last 6 months. The reason for the fall, Charlie Wolf sites that “the value of the iPad fell $11.83 or 10.8% to $98.11 chiefly because of the introduction of the iPad mini, which has a much lower gross margin that the full-sized iPad.” With the new release of the Galaxy SIV things might get worst for Apple. Apple faithful and loyalist could jump ship in favor of an android device. Analysts are worried that Apple growth has slowed because of the lack of innovation and the pace the late Steve Jobs set for the company cant be met currently, because Apple are repacking and retooling the same products with little improvements here and there.“The value of the iPhone fell $14.56 or 4.5% to $308.64 because of our assumption that the iPhone’s worldwide share would stabilize at 20% rather than 22% as before,” the analyst wrote in a note to clients picked up by Fortune.
Tim Cook To Attend President Obama’s State of The Union
Apple head honcho Tim Cook will attend Obama’s as a guest of Michelle Obama. Its the normal for the first family to invite some who is considered influential individual, and for this go around thy chose the Apple CEO. The news was confirmed earlier today by Bloomberg news that Cook will be the special guest of the Obama’s. According to the Bloomberg news the reason for Cook’s appearance is that its “reported that Obama is preparing to issue an executive order setting up a voluntary program that companies (like Apple) can join to meet cybersecurity standards”.The State of the Union address will be given on Tuesday, February 12th, at 9 p.m. eastern time.
Apple CEO Cashing Out This Past Fiscal Year
It’s pretty well known Apple as a company is worth big bucks, so it’s no surprise those that run it make big bucks also. But just how much? Between salary, any holiday bonus’ or even a pay-for-performance, they’re all raking it in. Tim Cook, now Apple CEO, received stock worth around say $510m when he took over in 2011. You’ll be amazed when you hear what he brought in just this past year. Tat Wza
