After Steve Jobs: Handicapping Apple's back bench
"You know, I think it wouldn't be a party," Steve Jobs told Fortune in February, describing the future of his company if, as he put it, Jobs got hit by a bus. "But there are really capable people at...
View ArticleLosing Tony Fadell: The man who made the iPod
Big news for Apple in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal: The company is losing one of its stars, Tony Fadell. Tony who? If Steve Jobs didn't loom so large in Apple's public persona -- drawing the spotlight...
View ArticleNew iPod chief: Apple and IBM were competitors (update)
UPDATE: Reading Mark Papermaster's statement in full, I discover that it had been taken it out of context. The full quote, reproduced at the bottom of this post, makes a lot more sense. My apologies...
View ArticleThe Papermaster chronicles: An Apple vs. IBM timeline
Steve Jobs' high-profile raid on IBM's managerial ranks hit a snag on Friday. A judge in White Plains, N.Y., ordered Mark Papermaster -- IBM's (IBM) former top microprocessor executive and Apple's...
View ArticleIBM settles; Papermaster to join Apple in April
In the end, they split it down the middle. On Tuesday, International Business Machines (IBM) announced that it has resolved the lawsuit against a newly appointed senior vice president at Apple Inc....
View ArticleExit Apple: The man who made the iPod
Tony Fadell leaves Apple nearly 17 months after losing the iPod/iPhone division He came to Apple (AAPL) in 2001 with plans for building what would become the iPod. By 2006 he had replaced Jon...
View ArticleToday in Tech: Netflix shares plunge 40%
Fortune's curated selection of newsworthy tech stories from the last 24 hours. Sign up to get the round-up delivered to you every day. * Bloomberg reports that Apple (AAPL) may be developing a...
View ArticleTony Fadell: Apple's Scott Forstall 'got what he deserved'
The former Apple VP who built 18 generations of iPods and 3 of iPhones breaks silence FORTUNE -- We don't know what kind of legal constraints have prevented former Apple (AAPL) senior vice president...
View ArticleNest's newest device? A smoke detector
Ex-Apple SVP Tony Fadell first wowed consumers in 2011 by introducing a sleek thermostat. Now he's back, this time with an equally elegant smoke detector called Nest Protect.
View ArticleTony Fadell on practicing what he preaches
"Quality is not a fad, neither is sustainability," says the co-founder and CEO of Nest. By Chanelle Bessette, reporter FORTUNE -- Tony Fadell is the co-founder and CEO of Nest, a household product...
View ArticleInnovation at Tim Cook's Apple
Steve Jobs was focused on innovative products. His successor is focused on process. FORTUNE -- At a Business Insider conference Friday, ex-iPod hardware chief Tony Fadell praised Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim...
View ArticleWhy Google, not Apple, bought Tony Fadell's Nest Labs
What the $3.2B Google paid says about Larry Page's ambitions -- and Tim Cook's focus. FORTUNE -- The tech press went nuts Monday after Google (GOOG) announced that it had offered $3.2 billion to buy...
View ArticleApple and Google angle for control of the Internet of Things
FORTUNE — Nobody knows what the world is going to look like when the things around us get smarter — when more and more of them are equipped with tiny radios that are connected to the Web. Which is what...
View ArticleIs Tony Fadell the next Steve Jobs or … the next Larry Page?
In the late 1990s a young entrepreneur named Tony Fadell tried to persuade Stewart Alsop, a journalist who had recently become a venture capitalist, to invest in his startup, Fuse Systems. Fadell had...
View ArticleTony Fadell: In his own words
Tony Fadell, a former Apple AAPL executive who went on to co-found Nest (which recently sold to Google GOOG for $3.2 billion), has been likened to Steve Jobs and Larry Page for his innovative thinking...
View ArticleNest’s Tony Fadell hurt in water-skiing accident
Tony Fadell has been flying high of late, having sold his company, Nest, to Google GOOG for more than $3 billion earlier in the year. For the time being, however, the former Apple AAPL hardware...
View Article15 fabulous Fortune reads from 2014
Every year, Fortune publishes hundreds of magazine stories and thousands more online. Winnowing down the best is impossible and, for that matter, totally subjective. But we’ve tried to pick out a few...
View ArticleApple and Google angle for control of the Internet of Things
FORTUNE — Nobody knows what the world is going to look like when the things around us get smarter — when more and more of them are equipped with tiny radios that are connected to the Web. Which is what...
View ArticleIs Tony Fadell the next Steve Jobs or … the next Larry Page?
In the late 1990s a young entrepreneur named Tony Fadell tried to persuade Stewart Alsop, a journalist who had recently become a venture capitalist, to invest in his startup, Fuse Systems. Fadell had...
View ArticleTony Fadell: In his own words
Tony Fadell, a former Apple AAPL executive who went on to co-found Nest (which recently sold to Google GOOG for $3.2 billion), has been likened to Steve Jobs and Larry Page for his innovative thinking...
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