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Could Apple's (AAPL) Tim Cook become the permanent CEO soon?

Posted Jun 10th 2009 4:30PM by Brian White (RSS feed)
Filed under: Management, Apple Inc (AAPL)

Now that Apple, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AAPL) biggest day of 2009 is officially over, co-founder and CEO-on-leave Steve Jobs did not make an appearance. Although he's scheduled to come back to his day-to-day duties at Apple at the end of this month, some thought he may pay a visit to Apple's worldwide developer's conference to kick off a new iPhone or any other iDevice. It didn't happen, and Apple hasn't even told the world if plans for Jobs to return in a little over two weeks are still on track.

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Apple's (AAPL) Steve Jobs pumps up Yahoo! (YHOO) execs

Posted Oct 3rd 2007 11:19AM by Brian White (RSS feed)
Filed under: Management, Yahoo! (YHOO), Apple Inc (AAPL)

Where is Yahoo, Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) headed these days? CEO Jerry Yang and President Sue Decker are in the middle of turning the internet giant back into a revenue leader after years of losing so many races to competitor Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG). Yahoo! still has the assets and the audience, which are 10 years in the making. What is doesn't have is the execution.

That was the message last Friday when Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) CEO and current king-of-everything Steve Jobs showed up to give some insight to a gathering of Yahoo! execs. His message was clear: like Apple of the past, Yahoo! has a great product portfolio and a world-class following of customers. What needs work is listening to customers and giving them solutions efficiently.

Only one thing stood out from the meeting: it was attended by 300 Yahoo! vice presidents. Three hundred? That right there tells me quite a bit if the number is right. Why on earth would Yahoo! need so many upper-level managers?

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