Despite the ongoing concern surrounding the development of Apple’s space-age Campus 2, Apple has hired the contractors responsible, Foster + Partners to carry out upcoming Apple Store projects. According to reports Foster + Partners, which has in the past built the McLaren Technology Centre and New York’s Hearst Tower, is helping Apple on a retail store…
If you plan to spend a night near Apple’s Cupertino HQ, then your hotel decision just got a whole lot easier. Starwood Hotels’ Aloft Hotel has just introduced Apple TVs in all of its rooms with access to thousands of hours’ worth of content. The hotel allows its users to watch ”TV shows from iTunes, connect to Netflix for films, Hulu for television…
Apple held its annual shareholders meeting today, and while much of the meeting was pretty standard, there were a few points touched upon that are worth mentioning. First and foremost is a statement from Tim Cook that Apple is looking to enter new product categories. According to CNBC, which live blogged the meeting, “Obviously we’re looking at new…
Apple has broken ground over in Santa Clara, the first stages of work to create new campuses for Apple’s ever expanding workforce. The first of the buildings will be a six-floor project, and will be completed by 2014. Once ready, 1,200 staff members will be doing their 9-to-5 here. Side note: this is not to be confused with the huge UFO “Campus 2″ which…
Cupertino’s city website has just posted Apple’s detailed plans for the new ‘spaceship’ campus that it has been working on. Reportedly, Apple’s new campus project has been delayed, with David Brandt (Cupertino city manager) saying that “the project is running a bit slowly,” and that it could “conceivably break ground in 2013″. Current estimates have…
According to Reuters, Apple is planning to expand its business by building a $304 million campus in Austin, Texas. The venture will create some 3,600 jobs, doubling the Apple workforce in the city. The jobs will fall under customer support, sales and accounting. In a statement today Steve Dowling said: “Our operations in Austin has grown…
Steve Jobs, thin as a rail, took the stand at the Cupertino city council meeting last night and presented plans for a new multi-million (billion?) dollar headquarters for Apple. The new plan uses Apple’s recent purchase of the Hewlett-Packard land, as well as some other minor land purchases and combines them all into one large prairie, and apricot…
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