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Apple's $17 billion bond deal is the largest in history

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (May 1st, 2013)

The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple made the largest corporate-bond deal in history on Tuesday, when it raised US$17 billion in bonds -- the first time the company has offered bonds in 20 years. In response, The New York Times asks, why would cash-rich Apple do this in the first place? ...

Apple releases proxy statement in SEC filing

by Mike Schramm (Dec 27th, 2012)

Apple has revealed the first information about its upcoming 2013 fiscal year in a proxy statement filed to the SEC this week. You can read the entire document on the SEC's website, but we can run you through the major points right here and now. First up, Apple discloses what Tim Cook was ...

Dan Hesse certain the iPhone will be profitable for Sprint

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 17th, 2012)

Sprint's CEO Dan Hesse signed an estimated US$15.5 billion deal with Apple to carry the iPhone. After a less than stellar quarterly performance, the CEO is trying to quell shareholder discontent by publicly defending his decision, says a report in AllThingsD. Speaking at an annual ...

HP shareholders ask why company isn't more like Apple

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 22nd, 2012)

Meg Whitman, CEO of HP, had to defend herself against Apple during HP's annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday, says a report from AppleInsider. More than one investor mentioned Apple's innovation and asked HP whether it is equally innovative. Another individual asked Whitman why HP didn't have ...

Apple holds shareholder meeting, Tim Cook presides

by Mike Schramm (Feb 23rd, 2011)

Apple held its latest shareholder meeting in Cupertino today, and while Jobs was apparently in attendance (and re-approved as a board member, along with William Campbell, Millard Drexler, Albert Gore, Andrea Jung, Arthur Levinson and Ronald Sugar), Tim Cook was the one overseeing the ...

Al Gore taunted at shareholders' meeting, gets 10k more options anyway

by Mike Schramm (Mar 1st, 2010)

Last week in this post and last night during the talkcast, we mentioned that Apple's shareholders had passed on a sustainability proposal during last week's meeting (the first time in recent memory that Apple didn't go for stricter environmental standards), but apparently the shareholders weren't ...

Minutes from Apple's shareholder meeting

by Mike Schramm (Feb 26th, 2010)

Fortune's Apple 2.0 blog has some unofficial minutes from this week's Apple shareholder meeting -- while press weren't actually allowed inside the event (which featured Apple's board, including Al Gore, Steve Jobs, and new co-lead director Andrea Jung), that didn't stop an anonymous shareholder from ...