After Steve Jobs, who runs Apple?

admin — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:31:08 +0000

We are in the early stages of changing roles in Apple’s management structure,” Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster wrote last week in the wake of Steve Jobs’ decision to hand the Macworld keynote over to senior vice president Phil Schiller a move Munster characterized as “a clear message that a leadership shift is underway.

In this analyst’s scenario, Jobs stays on as CEO — “the irreplaceable face of Apple” — but gives an increasing public role to a management team that Munster believes is one of the company’s “competitive advantages” but who, in contrast to their world-famous CEO, are virtually unknown.

Canada Agrees to Its Own Auto Bailout

admin — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:27:59 +0000

OTTAWA — Moving to pre-empt a possible shift of auto production to the United States, the governments of Canada and its Ontario province offered the industry 4 billion Canadian dollars in emergency loans on Saturday.

Depending on currency fluctuations, the amount is roughly equal to 20 percent of the Bush administration’s bailout plan as well as Canada’s portion of North American auto production.

“I will not fool you,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper told reporters in Toronto. “There is obviously money at risk here and there may well be more money at risk going forward.”

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After Steve Jobs, who runs Apple?

Canada Agrees to Its Own Auto Bailout