Apple’s credit card codenamed “Project Cookie” may be announced at the March 25 event
Apple is inviting journalists who cover the payments industry to attend the March 25 event so that’s your clue right there.
Goldman Sachs
WSJ: Apple and Goldman Sachs’ joint credit card due this spring with cool Wallet features
Goldman ultimately hopes to offer Marcus loans, wealth-management services and other products to Apple customers.
WSJ: Apple taps Goldman Sachs for a branded Apple Pay credit credit due early 2019
As Apple’s investment bank has raised tens of billions of dollars for the Cupertino tech giant, Goldman Sachs now reportedly wants to bank Apple’s customers, too.
Analyst predicts possible prices of iPhone 8 & iPhone 7s/Plus models
Goldman Sachs believes iPhone 8 will be offered in 128GB and 256GB versions, respectively priced at $999 and $1,099.
Apple to live-stream Tim Cook’s section of today’s Goldman Sachs Technology Conference
Apple announced this morning it’ll be providing a live-stream audio of CEO Tim Cook’s segment at Goldman Sachs Technology Conference.
The live webcast will be available later today over here, beginning at 12:30pm PT / 3:30pm ET. The company did not reveal the topics of Cook’s conference talk nor the form of the interview.
But don’t you worry, you can count on iDownloadBlog to keep you in the loop regarding newsworthy tidbits Cook will be hopefully dropping during his segment.
Apple’s CFO Peter Oppenheimer lands a seat on the Goldman Sachs board
Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, has joined the Board of Directors of investment banking firm Goldman Sachs. The appointment brings the Goldman Sachs board to thirteen directors, ten of whom are independent.
According to a newly published webpage over at Goldman Sachs, Oppenheimer will be a member of each of the firm’s Audit, Risk, Compensation and Corporate Governance, Nominating and Public Responsibilities committees.
“Peter’s 25 years of broad experience across important industries will add a valuable perspective to our Board of Directors,” said Lloyd C. Blankfein, Chairman and CEO in a prepared statement. “We appreciate his willingness to serve as a director and look forward to benefitting from his judgment and counsel”…
Highlights from Tim Cook’s Goldman Sachs talk
As announced yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook is speaking at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Interactive Conference in San Francisco. Right on schedule, he began discussing topics of interest at 7.15am Pacific, 10:15am Eastern time, just after the markets open. Originally scheduled at 4:15pm Eastern, Cook’s segment was shifted so he could be whisked more than 2,000 miles to Washington DC to sit beside Michelle Obama for the President’s State of the Union address.
Apple is streaming its chief executive’s remarks live on its Investor web site and should post the full audio shortly after the event. If you don’t have the time to sit through the whole thing, we’ve got you covered with the most interesting bits and pieces from Cooks’ presentation…
Apple’s Cook to speak at Goldman Sachs tech conference tomorrow
Apple CEO Tim Cook will speak at Tuesday’s Goldman Sachs tech conference, February 12, according to Apple’s Investor News site.
He is scheduled to speak at approximately 7:15am Pacific, 10:15am Eastern time, just after the markets open. Apple will provide a live webcast of its CEO’s talk in the streaming Quicktime audio format here.
Cook also gave a presentation at last year’s event, with Apple posting audio of the full talk shortly after the event had wrapped up. We’re expecting lots if interesting tidbits tomorrow as Cook lets us in on some valuable insight into Apple’s business..