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Considering how Tim Cook is changing Apple

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 24th, 2012)

Adam Lashinsky, Sr. of Fortune takes an interesting look at Tim Cook and how the new CEO is changing Apple. He spends a great deal of time writing about Cook's business practices and the philosophy that'll shape the Apple of the future. Lashinsky writes, In general, Apple has become ...

Apple climbs to 17 on Fortune 500 list

by Steven Sande (May 8th, 2012)

Fortune released the Fortune 500 list for 2012, and Apple is now in the top 20 of the list of the largest U.S. corporations in the #17 spot. That's a vast improvement from last year's ranking at 35. Apple has a way to go to get into the top five, which is populated by such famous names as ...

Survey: 24% of Americans plan to buy the new iPad in the next three months

by Steven Sande (Mar 26th, 2012)

While all surveys should be viewed with a skeptical eye, a recent study from Baird Equity Research should make Apple watchers happy. As reported by Fortune's Philip Elmer-DeWitt, the survey of 488 "younger, tech-savvier" online respondents by Baird showed some surprising results. The first ...

Apple Stores and Microsoft Stores by the numbers

by Steven Sande (Mar 2nd, 2012)

TUAW readers know from a series of posts we've run over the years that Microsoft has been opening self-branded stores throughout the U.S., usually just a stone's throw away from well-trafficked Apple Stores. Fortune's JP Mangalindan took a metaphorical bullet for the sake of a story and visited ...

Apple is Fortune's Most Admired Company for fifth year in a row

by Steven Sande (Mar 1st, 2012)

For the fifth year in a row, Apple has taken the honors as Fortune's Most Admired Company. Apple aced out Google, Amazon.com, Coca-Cola, and IBM. Those companies that took second through fifth places respectively. Fortune cited Apple's stellar financial performance during the last year as the main ...

Inside Apple describes Scott Forstall as Apple's CEO-in-waiting

by Steven Sande (Jan 17th, 2012)

Apple CEO Tim Cook is an excellent business manager and responsible for much of the company's success in low-cost manufacturing and skinny inventories. But as we saw with Cook's first product announcement on October 4, he lacks a lot of the charisma that marked the Steve Jobs era. A new book is ...

Grand Central Terminal Apple Store previewed for media, opens Friday

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 7th, 2011)

Apple previewed its latest retail development for the press today. The Grand Central Terminal store in New York City, opening Friday, will be among the largest Apple stores in the world; it overlooks the Main Concourse from the East and North East balconies of Grand Central Terminal. Check ...

Steve Jobs in 1995: "I've got a plan that could rescue Apple"

by Michael Grothaus (Sep 28th, 2011)

Yesterday we told you that Fortune was publishing a Kindle ebook called "All About Steve." The ebook is a collection of 17 stories and interviews with Steve Jobs drawn from Fortune's articles. Now, while it's nice that Fortune is collecting all their interviews in one place, its no shock they ...

Fortune publishes 'All About Steve' ebook featuring Jobs

by Chris Rawson (Sep 27th, 2011)

If you can't wait another two months for Walter Isaacson's official Steve Jobs biography, Fortune has you covered with All About Steve, a collection of 17 stories drawn from Fortune's articles. Available as a Kindle ebook at a list price of US$10.99, the collection features stories that "are the ...

Fortune story goes 'Inside Apple'

by Michael Rose (May 7th, 2011)

Although subscribers to the print edition of Fortune magazine can get the full issue on their iPads this month, the rest of us may have to wait a bit -- or head to the local newsstand -- to read Adam Lashinsky's feature 'Inside Apple,' which relays several previously-untold anecdotes and company ...

Analysts release their Q2 2011 earnings estimates

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 18th, 2011)

Apple will announce its quarterly earnings after the bell closes on Wednesday, April 20. The Cupertino company will unveil sales figures for the newly launched iPad 2 and possibly the Verizon iPhone. Long lines and delayed ship times indicate the iPad 2 is selling well, but early estimates ...

Fortune says Apple tops them all!

by Mel Martin (Mar 4th, 2011)

This tidbit of news is not a surprise, but it's sure nice to see. For the 4th straight year Fortune says that Apple is the world's most admired company, as it "continues to set the bar high for high tech companies across the board." Citing nearly doubled profits from a year ago, ...

'Can Apple maintain profitability?' Yes.

by Kelly Guimont (Jan 4th, 2011)

Seriously? This is the question of the day? When people are still voicing serious and legitimate concerns about the rest of the economy? We're talking about a company with enough money in the bank to make a Goldman Sachs-sized investment in Facebook if it wanted to, more than triple the amount Dell ...

Verizon iPhone definitely coming in 2011, says Fortune

by Michael Rose (Oct 29th, 2010)

In a profile of Verizon's CEO Ivan Seidenberg, Fortune couldn't quite get him to spill the beans on the upcoming Verizon 'dream phone,' as the story's headline puts it. Still, between the timeline of meetings between Seidenberg and Steve Jobs, and the story of how Verizon and Google found common ...

Apple: Mac sales could sustain a Fortune 500 company by itself

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Oct 20th, 2010)

One in five PCs sold in the United States is a Mac, making up 20.67% of U.S. consumer market share, and bringing in triple the amount of money the Mac has earned since fiscal year 2005. That's the amazing number that Tim Cook, Apple's COO, shared at the beginning of today's "Back to the Mac" ...