Monday, February 16, 2015








Jony Ive & Angela Ahrendts collaborating on an Apple Store redesign to better showcase Apple Watch (New Yorker)







Apple's Titan car project to challenge Tesla - WSJ


Apple reportedly has several hundred employees working on the secret project that's aiming to create an Apple-branded electric vehicle that can take on Tesla.









Major new details spill out about Apple's top-secret car






Oversimplified 

As mysterious minivan sightings proliferate, rumored 'Apple Car' seen as $50B US opportunity


With the total U.S. car market valued at over $500 billion per year, taking just a 10 percent share would represent a new $50 billion revenue opportunity for Apple, according to one analyst. 






Hitting the brakes on Apple's electric car


What does it mean for the stock?

Nothing until it becomes a lot clearer on what Apple is doing, However if Apple decides to build a car I think investors would view it negatively. Apple has more than enough cash to pull this off but should it?

Apple's operating margin was 28.7% in fiscal 2014. Tesla is still losing money after being founded ten years ago and mature auto companies generate margins much lower than Apple's.





Apple hires head of Mercedes-Benz, other auto experts for new secret research lab






Meet the Mercedes tech guru who defected to Apple






Automotive executives being recruited for 'top-secret' project at Apple [u]


Rumors of a new vehicle-related project underway at Apple continue to surface, with yet another report claiming on Friday that the company has been on a hiring spree for its secret new initiative.





Apple hiring experts for secret research project






The report of Tim Cook going to Washington was wrong, President Obama came to Silicon Valley to endorse Apple Pay.

Obama's visit to Silicon Valley is a big win for Apple Pay


Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Yahoo Inc. CEO Marissa Mayer, and Google Inc.'s Larry Page and Eric Schmidt all were invited but won't attend the conference at Stanford University, according to the companies.


Speaking at the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection on Friday, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook revealed that the U.S. government plans to begin accepting Apple Pay for a number of transactions, starting with admission to U.S. national parks.



Apple's CEO Announces a Huge Win for Apple Pay at the Cybersecurity Summit in California Today - Patently Apple





Apple video: Tim Cook on cybersecurity







Tim Cook warns of consequences of sacrificing privacy for security






Why Apple's CEO went to Obama's cyber-security summit, but the CEOs of Google and Yahoo did not






Apple to Open New Offices in a Seaside City in Israel Tuesday


Apple Center in Herzliya is expected to gather 800 employees, and is spread over 17 thousand square meters in the structure of Bayside. Apple currently operates a development center in Haifa where it employs several hundred. Apple is keeping an open eye for new Israeli start-ups with brilliant ideas that they could tap into.






Apple doesn't want to compete - it wants to own the record business







The obvious first assumption is that this is about iTunes Radio, but I think it could be about artist development.

Grammy-nominated DJ Zane Lowe leaving flagship BBC Radio show, joining Apple






A Valentine's Day store grand opening!




Steve Jobs bought Pixar for $5 million in 1986. He invested $5 million of his own money and sold Pixar to Disney for $7.4 Billion in 2006. 

Laurene Powell Jobs' net worth is now around $19.4 Billion.

Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin file to sell 4 million shares of their Google stock


As I read it (and the wording is a bit cryptic, so I could be off here), the plan calls for Page and Brin to sell, jointly, four million shares of stock. Four million shares. At Friday's close of $549.01, that's $2.2 billion. That is a huge amount of money.
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