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Rumor: Apple in settlement talks with A123 Systems following employee poaching lawsuit

When in doubt, compromise and settle. Apple is apparently in talks to settle a lawsuit filed by electric-car battery maker A123 Systems, which has charged the iPhone maker with poaching five of its employees to set up a new battery division. The lawsuit has added fuel to reports that Apple is getting into the electric-car […]

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Rumor: Tim Cook vouches for shower-safe, waterproof nature of upcoming Apple Watch

Well, there’s gotta be a nugget of truth in here somewhere. The rumor mill currently has Apple CEO Tim Cook telling Apple Store employees in Berlin that he wears his Apple Watch everywhere, “even in the shower.” Apple has not officially designated the Apple Watch as either waterproof or water resistant. If Mr. Cook actually […]

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List of Apple employees tasked to electric car project begins to emerge, key players surface

Over the past couple of weeks, there’s been word of an employee poaching war between Apple and Tesla, Apple hiring from the auto industry and speculation as to exactly what Applee might be working on. It’s apparently clear that Apple is looking to go beyond an iOS-based CarPlay in-dash system and the majority of the […]

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Apple is looking to employees to test its new Photos app

We’ve mentioned in a previous post that Apple plans to replace the once venerated pro-level photo management app, Aperture, and presumably iPhoto as well, with an all new application called simply Photos. Now Apple is looking for someone to put it through its paces, and looking no further than its own collective of employees.

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Rumor: AT&T to black out employee holidays around September 20th for next-gen iPhone launch

When companies begin penning in blackout dates for their employees, a product launch tends to be imminent. Per Boy Genius Report, citing sources close to the story, the web site claims that AT&T has blacked out vacation dates for the second half of September, a move supposedly meant to handle an expected deluge of customers […]