Having heard senators and tax experts discuss tax code and loop-holes, it was then the turn of Tim Cook, Peter Oppenheimer and their tax aide to represent Apple. As with any Apple speech, Tim started off with talking about Apple’s success at creating jobs and revenue for the US. The biggest questions are cenetered around Apple’s subsidiaries AOI…
As you should know by now, Apple chiefs Tim Cook and Peter Oppenheimer are currently at a subcommittee hearing to determine what should be done about the company’s tax paying practices. The biggest talking point is ‘Apple Operations International’, a subsidiary company owned by Apple, based in Ireland. It’s one of three off-shore subsidiaries which…
According to a new report from Politico, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook will testify at an upcoming Senate hearing focused on Apple’s offshore tax practices. The Politico report explains that, recently avoided paying as much as $9.2 billion in taxes by buying back stock with debt instead of offshore cash… Apple has a reported $100 billion in offshore…
You’ll no doubt have heard of Charitybuzz’s online auction raising money by offering a coffee with Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook. Before this auction went online, the record bid received by the charity was $255k for a day with Bill Clinton. This auction offers little more than an hour with Tim Cook and has already blazed past the previous record, with the…
AllThingsD’s D11 conference will be held in California this year from May 28th to May 30th. The conference hopes to “bringing you straight-up, unvarnished conversations with the most influential figures in media and technology.” This year, one of the biggest keynote interviews involves none other than Apple’s Tim Cook. Cook’s interview will take place…
How much do you spend on a cup of coffee? Do you think Starbucks is absurd for charging $5 or more for a cup of joe? Well imagine spending over half a million dollars for coffee. That’s right, $500,000. You may recall, earlier today, the number rose over the half a million dollar mark, and for the first time, we finally know the identity of the current…
It’s official, Tim Cook is worth more than Bill Clinton to the public. CharityBuzz famously started auctioning off a coffee date with Apple’s CEO only a couple of days back, in that time it’s shot up from around $50,000 to a huge $295,000 with 18 days still left on the clock to bid. The previous record bid on CharityBuzz’s site was $255k, which was to…
Glassdoor, a company which specializes in finding out exactly how employees rate their companies’ owners and CEOs has published its latest results for 2013. Think of it – if you will – as Yelp for employees. Essentially, staff can log on and rate their management anonymously and leave reviews. You’ll be glad to know that Apple’s employees think Tim Cook…
Apple’s Tim Cook is certainly different to Steve Jobs in almost every way. Perhaps his biggest difference is how ready he is to own up and admit when his company has been in the wrong. He apologized publicly over the Maps debacle at the back end of last year and yesterday, apologized to China’s market over warranty issues. Thankfully, his apology has…
Some really great images of Tim Cook have shown up on Reddit, thanks to user whitbaker. He posted a gallery on Imgur, along with a great nostalgic story of his mother and Tim Cook being in high school together in the mid-70s. The story: Tim Cook attended the same high school as my mother, and she spoke highly of him. These are pictures from the…
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