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Apple Looks Abroad To Spruce Up Its Exec Team

Apple's business rolls along like a well-oiled machine, in part because its executive team has been largely home-grown and internally developed for years. Two recent hires suggest that is changing under Tim Cook.READ»

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Apple CEO Tim Cook Touches On Kindle Fire, Android, Windows Phone

Offering a rare peek inside the famously secretive company, Apple's earnings are watched by every industry analyst and news outlet--and even live blogged in some instances, like a worldwide sporting event.READ»

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Apple Beats Estimates Again: $46.33 Billion In Revenues, $13.06 Billion In Profit

Apple's just reported its first quarter finances for this year, and they're astonishing. Again. READ»

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What Will Today's Apple Earnings Call Reveal?

Later today Apple will reveal its first financial report for 2012. It's expected to be--as usual--all about growth. But how about some Apple television news?READ»

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Apple Speaks Openly, Discloses Environmental And Rights Issues Among Its Suppliers [Updated]

Apple is famously tight-lipped about almost everything relating to its actual business processes. Today it's shifted the veil slightly, and has released a frank list of issues it has discovered during an audit of its Eastern suppliers. READ»

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Apple's New Boss

As 2011 winds to a close and 2012 begins, we do a little bit of Fast Company drum-beating. We predict a lot of stuff around here. Sometimes we're wrong some. But we also nailed a few things this year. Back in January we pondered who might replace Steve Jobs at Apple...READ»

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What Apple Will And Won't Share Today

Apple is about to reveal its first financial report since the death of Steve Jobs, in a quarter that preceded the successful launch of the iPhone 4S. Here's what to expect, and what we'd like to hear but which may be unlikely.READ»

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Why Apple Will Win

The iPhone, iPad, and iEverything else will keep it merrily rolling along.READ»

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The Apple iPhone 4S Event: A Mega, Meta Appreciation Of The Tim Cook Show

Apple's iPhone and iPod news explosion yesterday flooded the internet with everything you could possibly want to know about its products and people. If you only read one post on the event make it this one--because it's actually like reading 43 stories in one!READ»

Apple's NDA Disclosed: Why You Won't See The iPhone 5 Until Tim Cook's Ready

An insider offers new details about the ironclad security around Apple prototypes: private jets, windowless rooms, amorphous storage cases padlocked to tables whose wood grain signatures are photographed--and much more. READ»

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Apple Rumor Patrol: Two iPhones, Or Not Two iPhones, That Is The Question

Let's talk iPhone facts and fiction. READ»

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Twitter Search Tool From Anonymous, Apple Wins Samsung Tablet Battle In Germany, Airbnb Launches Concierge Service

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day.READ»

11 Life Lessons I Learned From Steve Jobs

Whether you’re building a tech startup, raising three kids, or running a soup kitchen, Steve Jobs's indelible philosophies serve as a roadmap to success.READ»

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Tim Cook, Apple CEO, Auburn University Commencement Speech 2010

We've learned a lot about former Apple CEO Steve Jobs's personality over the years. But his successor, Tim Cook, is still largely an unknown.READ»

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Steve Jobs Vs. Tim Cook: Words Of Wisdom

Words of wisdom from Steve Jobs and Tim Cook in university commencement speeches reveal differences and surprising similarities between Apple's two chiefs. READ»

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Apple Goes To China

Apple could be on the verge of diving head-first into China's phone market. If it gets even a fraction of the country's mobile market, it's looking at $70 billion or more from that country alone--20 times the revenue it generated there in 2010. READ»

Apple Can't Keep Up With iPad Demand

Apple sold almost 5 million iPads around the world last quarter. But it still couldn't make them fast enough to meet demand.READ»

Apple's Tim Cook Basically Confirms a Cheap iPhone Is En Route

Apple's acting CEO Tim Cook kinda sorta maybe just about definitely confirmed a cheap iPhone is en route for 2011. This "leaky" behavior is very un-Steve Jobs--and may be a play to suppress sales of cheap Android phones. READ»

The Cult of Apple Will Outlast Steve Jobs's Reign: Survey

According to a new report, 84% of consumers say a Jobs-less future would not change their Apple-buying habits. READ»

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Will Google Change With Larry Page, Not Eric Schmidt, as CEO?

When Google announced the CEO shakeup Thursday, it seems most were far from concerned about the change.READ»