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Apple to Build New Austin Campus

in News on May 1 at 2:33 pm PT

Apple will soon be staffing up and building in Texas. The company just completed a deal with commissioners in Travis County, Texas, under which it will build a $16.5 million, 200,000-square foot building in North Austin by 2015, plus a second, $226 million, 800,000-square-foot office by 2025. The deal, which gives Apple a series of tax breaks and incentives from the county and state worth a combined maximum of $35 million over 15 years also requires Apple to hire a minimum of 3,655 workers by 2025. It employs 3,100 at its current campus in Austin now.

Huh? After Spending $278 Million, Salesforce.com Backs Out of San Francisco Campus.

in News on February 29 at 6:51 am PT

What’s behind Saleforce’s decision to pull back from developing a new corporate campus in San Francisco? Maybe it has to do with ballooning operational expenses?
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Was Apple Planning on Doubling Its North Carolina Data Center All Along?

in News on October 25, 2010 at 8:19 am PT

A quick update on Apple’s Maiden, N.C., data center and my post last week reporting that the company was considering doubling its size. Over the weekend, N.C. realtor Bill Wagenseller shot some new aerial video of the site that shows additional construction underway behind the current data center, which would seem to support that claim.

One More Thing: Apple’s New MacBook Air

in News on October 20, 2010 at 11:15 am PT

Steve Jobs’s “one more thing” today at Apple’s Town Hall event was the new MacBook Air, or, as he put it, “what would happen if a MacBook hooked up with an iPad.” The quick details: Complete unibody construction, all solid state storage, and there are two models, each with two configurations: an 11.6-inch model with either 64 gb or 128 gb of storage for $999 or $1199, respectively, and a 13.3-inch model with either 128 or 256 gb of storage for $1299 or $1599, respectively.

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Apple's "Big-A–" Data Center

in News on August 19, 2009 at 3:04 pm PT

Apple’s plans to build a North Carolina data center will result in a massive facility that could signal its next big initiative, one data-center expert says.