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From the Apple shareholders' meeting: Approvals, 'new categories' and another campus delay

by Mike Schramm (Feb 27th, 2013)

The Apple shareholders' meeting was held in Cupertino earlier today, and CNBC has a full liveblog of all of the proceedings. There wasn't a lot of hard news out of the meeting, as most of it was taken up with bureaucratic goings-on, including the approval of a certain accounting firm, a few ...

Apple building third campus in Santa Clara

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 29th, 2012)

Apple is expanding by leaps and bounds and is outgrowing its current Cupertino campus. To handle the overflow, Apple is beginning construction on a new two-building campus in Santa Clara, California. According to a report in the Mercury News, the new six-story office buildings will be located ...

Apple's 'spaceship' campus might be delayed until 2016

by Mike Schramm (Nov 21st, 2012)

Apple was moving right along on its plans to build a "spaceship"-like campus on the ground in Cupertino by 2015, but according to a new report to the city council, the project has been delayed by at least a year. Apple was hoping to break ground on the new site this year, but the company is ...

California fast-tracks Apple's new headquarters

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 3rd, 2012)

Apple is building a new campus in Cupertino and the process should proceed smoothly now that the project has been given fast track status by California Governor Jerry Brown. "Apple's state-of-the art campus brings at least $100 million dollars in investment to California and generates no ...

Apple sends letter to neighbors about new "spaceship" campus

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 21st, 2012)

Apple wants its new spaceship-style campus to be as free from controversy as possible. To quell any discontent from its neighbors, the company is reaching out to Cupertino residents and asking them for feedback about the project. In a document obtained by 9to5Mac, Apple tells residents how and ...

Should Apple build a museum on the new campus?

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 6th, 2012)

Computer historian David Greelish argues in a blog post that Apple should build a museum on the grounds of its new Cupertino campus. He points out that the flying ring-shaped office will attract everyone from architects to Apple fans who want to check out the unique building. Apple, Greelish ...

Apple to build $304M campus in Austin, Texas

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 9th, 2012)

Apple is expanding its presence in Texas with a new campus that'll add 3,600 new jobs, says Texas Governor Rick Perry. The US$304 million campus will double the size of Apple's Texas workforce over the next ten years and bring new customer support, sales and accounting jobs to the region. To help ...

Detailed floor plans of new Cupertino 'spaceship' campus released

by Chris Rawson (Dec 7th, 2011)

The city of Cupertino has made the proposed and revised plans for Apple's massive new "spaceship" campus available to the public. If you've got a thing for blueprints and architectural renderings, check out the link to the proposed floor plans for the campus, a 25-page PDF that details the ...

LA Times critic disparages future Apple Campus

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 12th, 2011)

Los Angeles Times Architecture Critic, Christopher Hawthorne, examined the architectural plans for Apple's newly proposed campus and wasn't too pleased with what he saw. Instead of buying into Jobs' architectural sales pitch like the Cupertino City Council did, Hawthorne criticizes the ...

Daily Update for Sept. 8, 2011

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Sep 8th, 2011)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes, which is perfect for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the ...

Apple leases Cupertino office campus for another 1000+ workers

by Chris Rawson (Jul 21st, 2011)

While it waits for its huge mothership office complex to be built, Apple still needs more office space for its expanding employee roll. To that end, the company has leased an office complex in Cupertino that's capable of housing around 1,300 additional workers, according to Mercury News. The ...

Steve Jobs conceived of "statement HQ" for Apple in 1983

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 14th, 2011)

The mothership campus Steve Jobs envisions for Cupertino is not the first statement headquarters he has pursued. Back in 1983, Jobs eyed Coyote Valley, San Jose for a world-class campus. Former San Jose mayor Tom McEnery tells the story of a meeting he had with a young Steve Jobs. Jobs saw the ...

Cupertino: "There is no chance that we're saying no" to Apple's new building

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 9th, 2011)

"The Mothership has landed in Cupertino," says Cupertino Mayor Gilbert Wong. These words were uttered during a press conference to confirm that the California city will welcome the new Apple campus with open arms. The decision is not based on any preferential treatment for Apple because of its ...

Steve Jobs unveils new Apple campus that literally looks like a mothership

by Michael Grothaus (Jun 8th, 2011)

At a Cupertino City Council meeting last night, Steve Jobs presented plans for Apple's new campus off I-280 in Cupertino. As you can see from the image above, the campus resembles a spaceship. The entire campus will be one huge round building with a courtyard in the middle. The building itself ...

Report shows vision of futuristic Apple campus

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Dec 6th, 2010)

British architect Norman Fisher Foster is working on transforming Apple's latest purchase -- a real estate bargain from HP -- into a new campus designed to give the company some breathing room. El Economista reports that the 100-acre campus is to be modeled after Masdar, Abu Dhabi, the first ...