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Time’s Ripe for Apple Execs to Enjoy the Fruits of Their Labor

John Paczkowski in News on November 1, 2010 at 3:15 am PT

With Apple’s shares trading near all-time highs, a few of the company’s top lieutenants are cashing in some of their equity for big paydays. Earlier this month, Bob Mansfield, senior vice president of Macintosh Hardware Engineering, exercised 40,000 stock options with a strike price of $36.54, selling them at $308 apiece to clear $10.8 million.

An Apple Store in the Apple App Store

John Paczkowski in Mobile on June 15, 2010 at 7:49 am PT

Want to shop in the Apple Store? Yes, there’s an app for that, too. Tuesday morning, Apple released a new iOS application that brings its online store to the iPhone and iPod touch.

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What's Really Going On Behind the Genius Bar

Nitrozac and Snaggy in News on August 19, 2009 at 10:25 am PT

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.)

Pull Those Engineers Off OS X 10.6 and Put Them on the Clock Radio …

John Paczkowski in News on May 22, 2008 at 12:36 pm PT

Good thing Forrester doesn’t run Apple, because if it did the company would be well on its way to insolvency. In an astonishingly unimaginative report called “The Future of Apple Inc.,” Forrester attempts to divine the products Apple will be peddling 5 years from now.