Apple’s board orders CEO to fly private for ‘security, efficiency’

Apple’s board has instructed chief executive Tim Cook to use only private aircraft “in the interests of security and efficiency” at the world’s most valuable company, regulatory documents show. A filing with securities regulators this week said the board determined that its CEO must use private aircraft for “all business and personal travel.” The policy […]

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Apple CEO, Cook breathes new life into old iPhones

By delivering solid financial results that beat Wall Street’s expectations for both revenues and profits on Thursday, Apple Inc’s CEO Tim Cook put to rest concerns that the company’s flagship device, the iPhone X, wouldn’t be ready in time for the holiday shopping season. But beneath the headline revenue and profit figures, Cook also seemed […]

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Tim Cook to MIT grads: Tech without human values is worthless

Science is worthless if it isn’t motivated by basic human values and the desire to help people, Apple CEO Tim Cook told graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Friday, urging them to use their powers for good. In a commencement address, Cook – who as Apple’s chief executive since 2011 has overseen the […]

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‘Apple engineers would rather quit than help the FBI’

SOME Apple engineers say that they’d rather quit than help the government break security measures that Apple has placed on iPhones and iPads. Inside Apple, engineers have already discussed who would and who wouldn’t build “GovtOS,” the software the FBI has gone to court to compel the company to create, according to The New York […]

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Apple’s Software Chief Says FBI Wants to ‘Turn Back the Clock’ on Security

As the battle between Apple and the FBI continues, the iPhone maker’s software chief, Craig Federighi, is weighing in on a fight that he says has the potential to “turn back the clock to a less-secure time and less-secure technologies.” In an opinion piece published Sunday in the Washington Post, Federighi said the FBI has […]

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Apple CEO Tim Cook: ‘This case is about much more than a single phone’

APPLE CEO Tim Cook said in an email to employees Monday that the US government should withdraw its demand that Apple help the FBI hack a locked iPhone used by a shooter in last year’s deadly shooting in San Bernardino, California. Apple is resisting US government demands that it unlock an iPhone used by Rizwan […]

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