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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 ...

Senior iCloud product manager John Herbold leaves Apple

by Mike Schramm (Jun 21st, 2011)

John Herbold, a senior product manager for Apple's iCloud service, has updated his LinkedIn profile to show that he's no longer with the company in Cupertino. Herbold's LinkedIn now shows that he works for a company called HealthTeacher, and his work at Apple is in the past. He also says that ...

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 ...

Apple shareholder meeting scheduled for February 23

by Steven Sande (Jan 13th, 2011)

The luckiest (or smartest) people on Earth should be receiving their invitations soon -- shareholders in Apple, Inc. who have shares registered in their names can attend the annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday, February 23, 2011. The event is scheduled to begin at 10 AM PT at the company's ...

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 ...

Apple buys former HP campus in Cupertino

by Sam Abuelsamid (Nov 30th, 2010)

In the latest sign of a trend that has been ongoing in the tech industry for more than a decade, Apple has gobbled up another big chunk of land in Cupertino, CA that is being vacated by Hewlett-Packard. Apple recently closed on a deal to buy HP's 98 acre Cupertino campus for an undisclosed price. ...

Apple hiring Mac App Store reviewers

by David Quilty (Nov 11th, 2010)

Always wanted to work for Apple but not sure about in what capacity? If apps are your thing, this could be your lucky day as MacNN is reporting that Apple Worldwide Developer Relations is now hiring Mac App Store reviewers, or "Mac Application Reviewers" as corporate likes to call them. These ...

Russian president gets an iPhone 4 from Steve Jobs

by Mike Schramm (Jun 24th, 2010)

(Russian press pool) Russian president Demetri Medvedev has been touring Silicon Valley this week, and during a trip to the mothership in Cupertino, he became the first Russian to officially get an iPhone 4 -- from Steve Jobs himself, no less. The iPhone 4 isn't even officially on sale in ...

iPhone OS 4.0: Coming this Fall to an iPad near you

by Aron Trimble (Apr 8th, 2010)

Apple's announcement of the new features and near-availability of iPhone OS 4.0 has got the entire tech-focused internet all a'twitter. Many new features were discussed but one of the more disappointing features is the delayed-arrival for iPad owners. Granted, the device was just released 5 days ...

iPhone OS 4.0: Unified inbox, threaded messaging and more

by Aron Trimble (Apr 8th, 2010)

Apple announced today that the iPhone's Mail application is going to receive several new features as part of the iPhone OS 4.0 software to be released later this year (summer for iPhone/iPod touch and fall for iPad). The first big feature is the unified inbox. Finally, it will be possible to ...

iPhone OS 4.0: Apple announces Game Center, a social gaming network for the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Apr 8th, 2010)

This is huge -- Apple has announced Game Center, an official social gaming network for the iPhone, coming to the device along with OS 4.0 this summer. So far, there have been a few social networks vying for an audience in the form of OpenFeint and Ngmoco's Plus+ system, but Apple's going official, ...

Incoming, outgoing Apple employees

by Mike Schramm (Mar 4th, 2010)

A few Apple employees played some musical chairs this week. Executive Pablo Calamera, who was in charge of MobileMe while at Apple, is off to work as the CTO of Thumbplay, a company that peddles ringtones and music to mobile devices. HR shouldn't have to change the big "35,000 employed ...

Macworld 2010: TUAW goes to the mothership

by Mike Schramm (Feb 10th, 2010)

No Macworld is complete without at least one pilgrimage to the mothership in Cupertino, and so yesterday, before the meetings and interviews we're planning today, David Winograd, Dave Caolo, and myself made the trip to the Apple Campus. In the gallery below, you can see what we saw, from the boxed ...

Flurry sees fifty devices that look like tablets

by Dave Caolo (Jan 25th, 2010)

Mobile analytics firm Flurry tracks usage of mobile apps and lo and behold, look at what popped up this week. There are 50 devices running iPhone OS 3.2 within the Apple Campus. Flurry also reports that they've been tracking 200 apps across 50 devices since October of last year, and that usage ...