Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO and founder of Facebook, has today announced that the world's most popular social networking service has passed 1 billion active monthly users in just 8 years since its inception in a Harvard dorm room (via 9to5Mac). Here's what Zuckerberg wrote on the official Facebook news page today: "This morning, there are more than...
Apple CEO Tim Cook has today sent an email to all company employees, thanking them for an incredibly successful 2012. He also announced that they will get the entire week of Thanksgiving in the United States off with pay (via 9to5Mac). Last year, Tim sent a similar email to his employees thanking them for a successful year and...
When Apple CEO issued an apology letter to customers over concerns with Apple Maps, he also plugged alternative map apps, such as Waze. Thanks to this strong recommendation, Waze CEO Noam Bardin noted in an interview with the WSJ their downloads have increased 40% in a single day compared to normal: Did you guys get a...
Apple CEO has written an apology letter on Apple.com to customers about the shortfall of Apple Maps. The latter has been criticized and seen as the 'Achilles Heel' of iOS 6 for its inaccuracies and omissions compared to Google Maps in iOS 5. Below is the letter from Cook: To our customers, At Apple, we...
When Apple uncovers its iPhone 5 during the event tomorrow, it's expected to be the largest upgrade to the phone since the iPhone 4. Apple has gone through five generations of iPhones and has yet to enlarge the 3.5 inch screen. With this upgrade, Apple will add a groundbreaking 4-inch screen in addition to blazing-fast LTE...
The latest report from Reuters notes Apple and Google CEOs have been discussing ongoing patent disputes between both companies "behind-the-scenes": Google Inc CEO Larry Page and Apple CEO Tim Cook have been conducting behind-the-scenes conversations about a range of intellectual property matters, including the ongoing mobile patent disputes between the companies, according to people familiar...
Apple has announced the promotion of Craig Federighi and Dan Riccio to senior vice presidents, to join the executive management team at Apple, reporting to CEO Tim Cook. Moreover, Bob Mansfield was noted to remain at Apple even though he 'announced' his retirement in June. As senior vice president of Mac Software Engineering, Federighi will...
After learning the jury outcome of their trial against Samsung, Apple CEO, Tim Cook, sent the following email to all employees (via 9to5Mac): Today was an important day for Apple and for innovators everywhere. Many of you have been closely following the trial against Samsung in San Jose for the past few weeks. We chose...
Earlier today, Judge Koh of the Apple vs Samsung trial urged both company CEOs to have one last telephone conversation prior to the jury's deliberation this week. According to Reuters, it appears the CEOs did talk but trial settlements failed to materialize: Top executives from both companies had participated in mediation with a U.S. magistrate...
Right when we thought the final decision would be given to the jury, Apple and Samsung are now back to settlement talks. Tim Cook will speak to Samsung CEO Kwon Oh Hyun over the phone in attempt to settle various infringement disputes. Hopefully past settlement talks aren't any clue of what's to arise. Bloomberg has the report, via...
Worldwide sales of mobile phones declined 2.3 percent in the second quarter of 2012, when compared to the same quarter in 2011. According to research firm Gartner, anticipation of the new iPhone may be part of the reason. I feel partly responsible. Count me as one of the ones waiting! As quoted from the source:...
Google General Counsel Kent Walker has argued in a letter to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee that proprietary technologies that become extremely popularity with consumers should be considered "de facto standards", reports AllThingsD. In simple worlds, Google thinks that simply because an Apple technology is extremely popular with consumers e.g multitouch technology or slide-to-unlock, doesn't mean Apple has...
