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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...

AllThingsD has posted Tim Cook's full interview from this year's D10 talks. Previously we had only seen snippets, but now you can watch video of the entire interview, right on their website. This comes just hours before the WWDC 2012 keynote that kicks off Apple's annual conference. Could there be some spoilers in the interview...

Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke at D10 tonight with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. Some of the videos from the interview have now started to be uploaded online (Flash video). Here's one on Tim Cook about the state of the tablet and how the PC should not burden it: Here's one more about how Cook...

Tonight Apple CEO Tim Cook was the headline interview to kick off the D10 conference, hosted by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher in California. Cook answered questions on everything from the iPhone, iPad, Siri, Apple TV, lawsuits and more. Here are some short notes summarizing a touch of what Cook 'revealed': Apple TV continues to...

Apple CEO Tim Cook will be starting the D10 conference tonight as the headlining interviewee. The chat begins tonight at 6PM PDT. This interview is Cook's second public interview this year. His first was at the Goldman Sachs' annual Technology and Internet Conference. There Cook discussed worker safety, financials, products, and Apple's culture. The interview...

This morning Fortune posted an excellent piece that provides insight into how, after nine months on the job, Apple CEO Tim Cook is evolving Apple and its culture. The story essentially concludes that under Tim Cook's leadership, Apple is becoming more open and more corporate, but not in a bad way. After being with Apple...