Despite giving the chief executive officers, Tim Cook of Apple and Kwan Oh Hyun of Samsung, time to settle things off court in a personal chat, it’s not surprising the presiding judge on both companies’ patent infringement cases against each other received a somewhat expected result: moving forward to the jury’s verdict.
US District Judge Lucy Koh had ordered the two CEOs of both companies to try and talk things over outside of court, and she felt “pathologically optimistic” …

APPLE CEO Tim Cook and Samsung CEO Kwan Oh Hyun reportedly talked to each other personally in an attempt to resolve both companies’ legal skirmishes about patent infringements in an out of court settlement.
Yesterday, Bloomberg said an unnamed source reported that the CEOs of Apple and Samsung will hold an allegedly private phone call to try and fix their mobile patents dispute ahead of a decision from a US jury. US District Judge Lucy Koh who oversees their case will be the first to hear …

Tim Cook has announced that the Apple App Store now has over 30 billion downloads, a mark that places the closest competition next to nil.
The Apple CEO gave a keynote at the tech giant’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco earlier this week, where he revealed the thumping 30 billion downloads milestone, which is 16 billion more than last year’s mark announced at the WWDC 2011.
After a comedy routine from voice-based virtual assistant Siri to open the program, Cook …

Apple CEO Tim Cook. (Image: Valery Marchive (LeMagIT), via Wikimedia Commons / CC)

Apple CEO Tim Cook is the highest earning chief executive in the US after receiving more than $1 million daily for helming the company last year.
The Wall Street Journal published a list of highest earning CEOs in the US, which shows Cook sitting on his perch atop counterparts.
The report says he earned $378 million in 2011 from a combination of salary and stock, but mostly from the latter as he has …

Apple CEO Tim Cook has signaled, in a deviation from the previous practices of late company co-founder Steve Jobs, that he thinks the company has too big a hoard of cash.
The remark was made by Cook at Apple’s annual shareholders’ meeting on Thursday during a question-and-answer session.
“Frankly speaking, it’s more than we need to run the company,” Cook said referring to Apple’s $97.6 billion cash stockpile.
Steve Jobs, who passed away on October 5 of last year, was famous, among …