Poaching

According to a report by Business Korea, Samsung Electronics has recently poached semiconductor expert Kim Woo-pyeong from Apple as its director. The publication notes that Kim was hired earlier this month after Samsung established its Packaging Solution Center in Device Solution America (DSA). After studying at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Kim worked...

Many employees have left Tesla since late 2017, and CNBC reports that most of them have been poached by Apple. These ex-Tesla employees are not only going to Apple to work on the autonomous car project. LinkedIn data shows that at least 46 people year-to-date worked at Tesla before switching over to work for Apple....

According to a new report from Variety, Spotify has recently poached Carl Chery, Apple Music's Head of Artist Curation for hip-hop and R&B programming. At Apple, Chery was best known for securing Apple Music exclusives from Chance the Rapper, including the Grammy-winning album Coloring Book. He is also responsible for publicizing artists such as Cardi...

According to LinkedIn, Apple has poached at least six engineers from Here, a mapping company owned by German automotive giants Audi, BMW, and Daimler, for its Berlin-based Apple Maps team (via Business Insider). A local source has revealed that "in the past several months, Apple has hired several people away from Here for mapping jobs in Berlin”. The source...

A couple of months back, DJ Zane Lowe, who was in charge of BBC Radio 1’s popular evening music show for over a decade, left BBC to join Apple with reports indicating that he will be involved in the company’s iTunes Radio streaming music service. Today, MBW is reporting that the Cupertino tech giant has poached four producers from the...

According to a report by the Korea Times, officials at Samsung are claiming that Apple is in the process of poaching their experts in next-generation technology, by offering them better pay and greater independence. The unnamed official told the publication that Apple is continuing to "headhunt its experienced technicians and engineers" engaged in signal- and visual-processing management. The...

Just two weeks back, an in-depth investigative article revealed that BlackBerry’s fall from grace was in big part initiated by the introduction of Apple’s iPhone in 2007. Today, a report by The Financial Post is claiming that the BlackBerry-killer from Cupertino is after the Canadian company’s workforce, hosting a "recruitment drive" 20 kilometres away from BlackBerry's Waterloo, Ont. home...