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Antitrust lawsuit against Apple, Google and others over anti-poaching allegations set for June 2013 trial
Well it looks like the controversy surrounding alleged e-book price fixing won’t be the only antitrust lawsuit Apple has to deal with. Apple, along with Google, Intel, Adobe, Pixar, Intuit, and Lucasfilm, are being taken to task for agreeing to anti-poaching agreements wherein each of the aforementioned companies were precluded the recruitment of employees from […]
Continue reading...Judge rules that employee-poaching lawsuit against Google, Apple and others can continue
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
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In the high-tech bubble that is Silicon Valley, engineering talent is king, and the battle for that talent is often fierce. Indeed, Steve Jobs was so paranoid about other companies stealing his employees that the “About This Mac” option on the Apple menu bar – which used to list the names of employees involved in the […]
Continue reading...When Steve Jobs put former Disney CEO Michael Eisner on blast
Thursday, March 24, 2011
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With Steve Jobs now re-elected to the Disney board of directors, we were reminded of the very public spat between Jobs and former Disney CEO Michael Eisner. Back in 2005, a year before Pixar would become a subsidiary of Disney, Eisner lambasted the characters in Pixar films as being “pretty pathetic” measured against those created […]
Continue reading...The 25-year old who works for Pixar
Sunday, February 27, 2011
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Barely in his mid-twenties, Erik Benson made a quick transition from college student to Pixar artist where he’s already made invaluable contributions to Toy Story 3 and the upcoming Cars 2. Armed with a long-held dream of working for Pixar, Benson enrolled at the California Institute of the Arts in 2006. As part of the […]
Continue reading...Justice Department puts an end to non-solicitation agreements for Apple and co.
Monday, September 27, 2010
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The Justice Department on Friday announced that it reached a settlement with Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit, and Pixar that effectively precludes them from entering into non-solicitation agreements with one another. Not too long ago, it came to light that Apple and Google, for example, had both agreed not to poach one another’s employees. As […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs unfiltered via his 2008 deposition
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
TechCrunch has an interesting look at Steve Jobs’ deposition testimony which was taken during the SEC’s 2008 investigation into alleged options backdating. It’s well worth a read, and provides some interesting insight into Jobs’ thoughts on a variety of matters, from his failure to find an adequate CEO for Apple in 1997 to his thoughts […]
Continue reading...Apple product placement in new “Bolt” movie
Monday, December 1, 2008
Check out the MacBook, which made a brief appearance in Disney’s latest movie, Bolt. Related: The Significance Of Apple Product Placement Via CultofMac
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Monday, April 23, 2012
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