In a recent anonymous survey conducted on Apple employees, current CEO of the Cupertino giant Timothy Cook received an approval rating of 97 percent. This has been revealed by the jobs and career community site Glassdoor, which conducted this survey.
The figure shows the percentage of company’s employees that gave positive feedback about him in the last year. However, as reported in the blog Glassdoor, rating of former Apple chief Steve Jobs was 95 percent in March, 2011.
One of the employees …

Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer will have a conference call today with investors, and many analysts predict that the company may offer a dividend to shareholders after almost 18 years of not paying dividends.
These sentiments, informed by statements Tim Cook made earlier on in the year, said that the cash Apple holds is much more than required to run the company.
Apple currently has close to $100 billion in cash that it holds both in the US as well as overseas, and expectations …

Startups have one major problem, according to Ben Silbermann, cofounder of photo sharing and collecting startup Pinterest, and that is taking too much advice from outsiders. Silbermann was speaking at the ongoing SXSW conference in Austin Texas and continued by warning startups that getting too much advice from so-called veterans can end up muddling the decision-making process, or worse yet, corrupt it altogether.
“Don’t take too much advice,” says Silbermann. “Most …

Taiwanese advertisers have used the image of late Steve Jobs to advertise the Action Pad tablet running Android, reports Reuters.
In the commercial, role of Steve Jobs is played by the Taiwanese comedian Ah-Ken. The video comedian is dressed in regular dress of Jobs – a dark sweatshirt and light jeans. He is also depicted with angel wings and a halo over his head. However, there is no mentioning about the name of Steve Jobs or Apple in the commercial.
The actor, who plays the role of …

Steve Jobs’ controversial action figure that is portraying the Apple founder will not be launched on the market after the pressures faced by the producer In Icons.
Actually, this decision seems to be the result of the enormous pressures that Apple’s lawyers have put on the manufacturers, the official motivation referring to the sensitivity to the Jobs family. However, In Icons insists that the release of this action figure would not have violated any law.
The few action figures that reached …

Steve Jobs refused to talk about philanthropy with his biographer Walter Isaacson in the course of the making of the now best-selling book about the life of the Apple cofounder.
The detail comes via Brian Marshall, an analyst with the ISI Group, who revealed the information shared by Isaacson in a recent event.
According to reports, Isaacson revealed the reluctance of Steve Jobs to talk about philanthropy during a question-and-answer assembly with the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, …

Social networking giant Facebook has announced its end of year memology list, as it has every December since 2009, revealing that the most popular status update topics in 2011 were led by the Death of Osama bin Laden, Packers win the Super Bowl, Casey Anthony found not guilty, Charlie Sheen, and the Death of Steve Jobs. Rounding out the top ten mentions in Facebook status updates in 2011 were The Royal Wedding, Death of Amy Winehouse, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Military Operations begin in …

Steve Jobs apparently wanted to bypass wireless carriers in the U.S. and create an Apple network using the unlicensed frequency used by Wi-Fi, wireless industry luminary John Stanton has revealed.

Steve Jobs wanted to bypass U.S. wireless carriers and build an Apple network using Wi-Fi.

Speaking at the Law Seminars International event in Seattle on Monday, Stanton said that Jobs “wanted to replace carriers.”
“He and I spent a lot of time talking about whether synthetically you could …

Facebook Inc., CEO Mark Zuckerberg, speaking with Charlie Rose in a special that will air today, said Apple co-founder Steve Jobs helped his company to sharpen their focus and build a management team. Job, who died on October 5th, felt that it was his duty to help and advise emerging technology executives like Mark Zuckerberg, according to his biographer Walt Isaacson. Jobs said he admired Zuckerberg for not selling out and trying to build something.
 

Zuckerberg said Steve Jobs coached …

Steve Jobs’ Biography becomes a Bestseller with about 400K copies already sold in the US
Book about the founder of Apple Steve Jobs has become a bestseller in the U.S. and the UK, report agencies. During the first week of its launch, at least 379,000 copies of Steve Job’s biography, written by Walter Isaacson, have been sold in the United States alone. This was stated by the staff of Nielsen BookScan, a data provider for the book publishing industry.
Owing to such high sales, the book …