Apple at 50: Hits and misses of a tech giant that rose from humble beginnings
Company founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne has had a huge impact on how we relate to consumer technology
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The Irish Times view on Apple at 50: from small seed to mighty empire
As it enters its second half-century, the questions its success prompts become more pressing
Build for the world that’s coming
Innovation culture doesn’t start with brainstorming or a vision statement: if it’s not safe to fail, it isn’t possible to innovate
Inside Apple’s new Cork building: An exercise in corporate sleekness
Architects Scott Tallon Walker have delivered subtle curves and a muted palette at the tech giant’s Hollyhill Five facility
Apple braces for life after Tim Cook’s $3.6tn tenure
Few corporate records come close, and the scale of Cook’s achievement makes Apple’s succession process a delicate one
Apple intensifies succession planning for CEO Tim Cook
iPhone maker’s board is preparing for its longtime leader to step down as early as next year
Tech titan Larry Ellison: ‘No one else has prospered in Silicon Valley for 50 years’
At 81, Oracle’s co-founder has reinvented himself as a power in AI to become (briefly) the richest person in the world
Is it time for a new kind of CEO at Apple?
Under Tim Cook, the tech giant’s market cap has ballooned to $3.1tn, but he is seen as perfecting rather than pioneering
Web Summit case: Paddy Cosgrave was Steve Jobs. Daire Hickey and David Kelly were Steve Wozniak
Web Summit founders were unable to escape Rockefeller’s famous dictum about business and friendship
Source Code: My Beginnings by Bill Gates – An engrossing and surprisingly honest memoir
In the first part of three planned books, which takes us up to the late 1970s, a wholly unexpected picture of the Microsoft founder steps forward at times
‘In the US I found myself apologising for my humour, as in Ireland we are inclined to be sarcastic’
Wild Geese: Aedhmar Hynes, Connecticut
How Intel fell from dominant chipmaker to struggling also-ran
Onetime part of the dotcom’s ‘four horsemen’, chipmaker is now trailing rivals and betting the house on foundry plan
With one stupid video, Apple gave us a neat metaphor for Silicon Valley’s cultural vandalism
If the makers of its new ad were trying to come up with a neat metaphor for Silicon Valley’s destructive presence in the culture industry, they could hardly have come up with anything better
The Dropout review: Rise and fall of Silicon Valley darling Elizabeth Holmes told with riveting verve
Television: Amanda Seyfried is gripping as ill-fated Theranos founder, steering well clear of caricature
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