Following up on Apple’s disclosure of employee salaries, Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, was recently required to disclose employee salary offers in order to stay in compliance with the U.S. Office of Foreign Labor Certification where work-visa applications are concerned. The results were fairly surprising, and even after recent layoffs, the highest base […]
Apple has officially become the world’s first and only trillion dollar publicly traded company. Apple achieved this milestone by hitting a stock price of $207.05 and above in intraday trading today, giving it a market cap slightly over $1,000,000,000,000, based on its 4,829,926,000 outstanding shares as of July 20, 2018, which the company disclosed in […]
It’s not always the best idea to get on Apple’s bad side. In 2015, Apple CEO apparently scolded Uber Chief Executive Travis Kalanick during a face-to-face meeting for tweaking coding to track iPhones even after users deleted the Uber app. “So, I’ve heard you’ve been breaking some of our rules,” Cook said, according to the […]
When 97 companies come pounding on your door, it may be time to listen. Apple, along with 96 other companies, including Silicon Valley powerhouses such as Google and Facebook, filed an amicus brief late on Sunday to oppose the immigration order introduced by US President Donald Trump. An amicus brief is a legal filing that […]
Google just turned in some amazing quarterly numbers. Alphabet, Google’s holding company, reported its fourth quarter earnings on Monday, the first ever in two segments, with separate figures its core business and its motley moonshots. Google altogether beat expectations, reporting net revenue, minus partner site payout, of $17.3 billion on $8.67 earnings per share. Wall […]