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Don't Believe Apple Tea Leaf Readers - Amelio
News "The future I see makes me more confident about Apple's future than those who are reading tea leaves and predicting a dark outlook for the company," Amelio said in his first public speech since his ouster from the company three weeks ago.
[July 30, 1997, 15:11]
Steve Jobs Attacked In New Amelio Book
News Ousted Apple CEO Gil Amelio is mounting his latest, and most forceful attempt yet at rehabilitating his reputation - this time in a 298-page book called 'My 500 Days at Apple' that often takes swipes at Apple founder and current leader Steve Jobs.
[March 25, 1998, 6:00]
Fraud Still Troubling EBay Users
News Joseph D'Amelio thought he'd found a great deal on eBay: a 2000 Porsche 911 for $50,000. A whiff of a scam, and the deal is off -- and eBay loses not only the commission, but also, in cases like D'Amelio, a once-loyal customer.
[July 1, 2002, 12:36]
Apple Boss Paves Way For Redundancies
News Amelio confirmed the widely expected announcement that Apple will lay off a "significant" number of staff later this week but didn't discuss other restructuring plans for the company. We cannot be in every market," said Amelio.
[March 13, 1997, 12:05]
Macworld: Next-based OS To Ship Inside 12 Months
News Apple CEO and chairman Gilbert Amelio yesterday finally laid out operating system plans aimed at reviving the struggling giant but disappointed Mac loyalists who were hoping for a quick panacea. In a two and a half hour speech at the Macworld Expo...
[January 8, 1997, 10:31]
Apple Chief To Outline Next Plans Tomorrow
News Apple boss Gilbert Amelio will tomorrow fill in at least some of the gaps that have been tormenting industry watchers since his company startled the somnolent Christmas period by announcing plans to purchase Next Software.
[January 6, 1997, 11:39]
Lenovo Chief Executive Steps Down
News Stephen Ward, the IBM PC executive who became the chief executive of Lenovo last year, has stepped down and will be replaced by William Amelio, one of Dell's senior executives for Asia. Bill Amelio's combined experience - in our industry, in...
[December 21, 2005, 8:05]
Guy Kewney's Weekend Diary
News They don't bear repeating; after several upbeat assurances, Gil Amelio finally sneaks out the admission that he's going to make another thumping loss, knocking the share price into the gutter. His messages, however, were more like theatrical...
[January 11, 1997, 7:00]
Analysis: Does Apple Have A Future? Don't Ask A Mac-Moony
News Within an hour of ZDNet posting a review of Gil Amelio's book, My 500 Days at Apple, the cult were responding with 'talk back' emails defending Jobs. For the shareholders, many of whom are die-hard cult members, the Amelio book is an unwelcome...
[March 26, 1998, 17:04]
Steve Jobs' Job For Life
News Jobs was brought on board to replace Gil Amelio, who was ousted in July 1997 amid growing worries that the company was beyond redemption. At Heidrick & Struggles, which was originally charged with finding a replacement for Amelio, Richards...
[April 28, 1999, 9:46]
Apple's Copland To Be Played Lentement
News Apple will take a leaf out of Web browser vendors' books by releasing the next version of the Mac OS in installments, CEO Gilbert Amelio said at the MacWorld show this week. In the same announcement, Amelio said that the Common Hardware Reference...
[August 9, 1996, 16:54]
Apple Agony Continues With $708m Loss
News The worst is behind us," said Gil Amelio, chairman and CEO. Amelio added that he still hopes to make the firm profitable again within two quarters. The Californian company made a $708 million net loss, incorporating a $186 million operating loss.
[April 17, 1997, 14:52]
Lacey: Apple Down, But Far From Out
News This is possibly a bigger blow to Apple than the departure of Amelio, as it is Hancock who has successfully navigated the turbulent waters of merging the Apple OS with the Unix-based NeXT technologies.
[July 10, 1997, 16:01]
A Year Ago: Apple Shares Slump 20 Per Cent On Shock Loss
News CEO and chairman Gilbert Amelio blamed poor sales of the Performa range and shortages of PowerBook notebooks. Amelio is due to give the keynote address at the opening of the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco today.
[March 3, 1999, 5:57]
Apple Shares Slump 20 Per Cent On Shock Loss
News CEO and chairman Gilbert Amelio blamed poor sales of the Performa range and shortages of PowerBook notebooks. Amelio is due to give the keynote address at the opening of the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco today.
[January 7, 1997, 10:01]
Apple Mulls NT, Intel Options
News Apple CEO and chairman Gilbert Amelio said yesterday he was considering licensing Windows NT from Microsoft and would also mull the possibility of making the Next-based Rhapsody operating system run on Intel as well as PowerPC chips.
[February 6, 1997, 10:04]
A Year Ago: Apple Names Jobs Caretaker CEO
News Apple Computer Inc.last Tuesday named co-founder Steve Jobs as interim chief executive officer two months after Gil Amelio resigned from the position. Apple said it formalised Jobs' role at its new board's first regularly scheduled meeting last...
[September 16, 1998, 9:26]
Apple Night Of Long Knives Is Tonight
News CEO and chairman Gilbert Amelio will be among the speakers. The firm will outline its restructuring activities at 9.30pm tonight (UK time) in a teleconference; up to 5,000 redundancies are rumoured.
[March 14, 1997, 14:29]
Apple Prodigal Wozniak Back In The Fold
News Another Apple legend returned to the sinking ship yesterday with the news of Steve Wozniak's appointment to the firm's Executive Committee to advise chairman Gilbert Amelio. Wozniak, or 'Woz' as he is affectionately known by Mac afficionados...
[February 5, 1997, 10:44]
A Year Ago: Wozniak Back At Apple
News Another Apple legend returned to the sinking ship yesterday with the news of Steve Wozniak's appointment to the firm's Executive Committee to advise chairman Gilbert Amelio. Wozniak, or 'Woz' as he is affectionately known by Mac afficionados...
[February 5, 1998, 9:01]
