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Apple Shareholders Are Wusses
Apple Shareholders Are Wusses
Ironic, isn’t that, that in this decade of CEO scandals and corporate duplicity, shareholders are punishing Apple (AAPL) — which in its last quarterly statement, reported earnings of $1.14 billion on sales of $7.9 billion, with nearly $25 billion in cash — for allowing CEO ...
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bloomberg.com — Apple’s Jobs Said to Be Considering Liver Transplant (Update1) By Connie Guglielmo, John Lauerman and Dina Bass... Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs is considering a liver transplant as a result of complications after ... (more) Worldwide
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bloomberg.com — Apple’s Cook Pushes Staff in Lieu of Jobs’s Magic (Update1) By Dina Bass and Connie Guglielmo Jan.... 15 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. founder and Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs is prone to fits of passion, table pounding and screaming. Tim Cook , who ... (more) Exclusive
Steve Jobs Probably Won't Come Back to Apple
Steve Jobs Probably Won't Come Back to Apple
blog.wired.com — Steve Jobs' medical leave from Apple is likely to be permanent, analysts say. In a letter to... Apple staff on Wednesday, Jobs said he was taking a five-month medical leave because his health issues are "more complex than I originally ... (more) Steve Jobs Probably Won't Come Back to Apple
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Paczkowski: ‘Apple shareholders are wusses’; Scoble: ‘You’re an idiot if you sell your AAPL stock’
MacDailyNews — ... iPod won’t suddenly go the way of the Walkman and early adopters won’t suddenly lose interest in the next gen iPhone. Yes, Jobs’s sensibility pervades Apple’s culture and its products, but that culture and those products are in not tethered to his health or day-to-day presence at the company. And Apple’s deep executive bench is more than capable of running it — and running it well — in his absence," Paczkowski writes. "Apple will endure — with or without Steve Jobs." Full article here . Robert Scoble got right to the point last evening: ...

Punishing the Wizard: On Apple and Steve Jobs
O'Reilly Media: Mac and iPhone — ... John Paczkowski of All Things Digital nails it in ' Apple Investors Are Wusses .' He wonders aloud how Apple investors can be so faithless in a company that in the last quarter reported earnings of $1.14 billion on sales of $7.9 billion, all the while growing their cash hoard to nearly $25 billion in cash. Yeah, I get it. Consumer company with high-end products in a bad economy with a seemingly irreplaceable leader who is ill, and a less than transparent corporate culture. Heck, I will go a step further and say that for planning purposes, investors should assume that what's ...

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