Apple’s Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer was awarded just shy of $69 million for his performance in 2012, a figure 16 times larger than Tim Cook’s compensation for the same year. Oppenheimer’s pay was mostly made up of stock grants, and was a significantly greater sum than is nearest salary rival, Oracle’s Safra Catz. With Oppenheimer in…
Any Apple fan is waiting with anticipation for the day Cupertino ground is broken to make room for the new Apple Campus 2 (aka “UFO”). Steve Jobs himself presented plans to the Cupertino governors and authority figures, and it took little persuading from him for the powers that be to realize it would be a huge asset to the city. The entirely circular,…
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…
According to a new report, Apple’s “Spaceship” Campus (aka Campus 2) is running a little behind schedule. The news comes from BusinessWeek, who received information from 5 different unnamed sources familiar with the project. Although the project was supposed to be finished at some point in 2015 at a cost of around $3 billion, it now looks as though it’s…
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…
I love a good infographic, especially when it contains information I wasn’t aware of. ‘A Bite Out of Apple’ details our favorite fruit company’s spending habits. From iPhone manufacturing cost and profit margin to the annual marketing budget and how much it spends on lobbying. Originally posted over at Master Business Administration, it’s a very detailed…
Back in August, Motorola accused Apple of violating seven of its patents with several iOS and Mac OS X products, and filed a lawsuit against the folks in Cupertino. Now, news has emerged that Apple has defended itself from the attacker by favor of U.S. International Trade Commission judge Thomas Pender’s ruling. The case can still be reviewed, but…
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…
It’s been a little while since we heard anything on Steve Jobs’ plans to build an impressive, all curved glass, UFO campus in Cupertino. Before he passed, Cupertino’s council had approved Apple’s plans to build Campus 2. Initially, it was expected that the company would have the building ready to use by 2015. Sadly, according to Bloomberg, the date has…
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