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Apple recruits top chip designer, IBM responds with suit
appleinsider.com - 10/31/2008
Apple recruits top chip designer, IBM responds with suit
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Apple recently recruited a top chip designer from IBM, resulting in a lawsuit that seeks to prevent the executive from taking his knowledge as "IBM's top expert in Power architecture and technology" to the Mac maker.
apple.com - 11/4/2008
Mark Papermaster Joins Apple as Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering
— apple.com — CUPERTINO, California November 4, 2008 Apple today announced that Mark Papermaster is joining the Company as senior... vice president of Devices Hardware Engineering, reporting to Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Papermaster, who comes to Apple from IBM, will lead ... (more) Mark Papermaster Joins Apple as Senior Vice President of ...

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blogs.computerworld.com - 11/3/2008
Why did Apple hire away IBM's Mark Papermaster?
— blogs.computerworld.com — The news of this fairly slow week for Apple watchers came in the form of a lawsuit... from Apple's PowerPC partner, IBM, who are apparently trying to protect some chip design IP. What is Apple going to do with Mr. Papermaster? read more (more) Why did Apple hire away IBM's Mark Papermaster?

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Apple’s $24.5 billion: The case for a big stock buyback
apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com - 10/29/2008
Apple’s $24.5 billion: The case for a big stock buyback
— apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com — Here’s a headache most companies would love to have. Apple is sitting on a huge cash reserve... — $24.5 billion as of September and growing at the rate of $8 to $10 billion a year – that’s doing almost nothing for it.  ... (more) Apple’s $24.5 billion: The case for a big stock ...

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Apple Hires IBM's Top Blade Server Developer Mark Papermaster
eWeek - RSS Feeds — ... Inc, court documents showed. IBM said Mark Papermaster, who was vice president of the company's Blade Development unit until last week, signed a noncompete agreement with IBM that would ...

IBM slaps Apple with a lawsuit for recruiting top chip designer -- like they were going to use him anyways
Engadget — ... In broad, soap operatic strokes of the finest sort, IBM and Apple are at each other's throats over Apple's latest recruit: IBM's vice president of microprocessor technology development. Improbably named Mark Papermaster, the man in question is responsible for IBM's ...

IBM abre processo contra ex-funcionário por ele ter decidido trabalhar para a Apple
BLOG.MACMAGAZINE — ... Mark Papermaster trabalhou na IBM por 26 anos, sendo um dos principais executivos na área de processadores e servidores corporativos da companhia até a sua demissão, em 21 de outubro. Ao decidir ir trabalhar para a Apple, a big blue decidiu processá-lo, devido ele possuir informações capazes de trazer prejuízos aos seus negócios. ...

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