Apple sends one of its top men to speak before Congress , jumps almost twenty spots on the Fortune 500 , and strikes a deal with another major newspaper publisher — all before noon . Guesssomeoneate theirWheaties . The balance for Friday , May 6 , 2011 are part of this complete breakfast .
Apple ’s Bud Tribble to prove before Judiciary Subcommittee on Mobile Privacy(The Loop )
The office of Senator Al Franken ( D - MN ) has unloosen the list of ethnic music giving testimonial at next workweek ’s Congressional auditory modality on mobile privateness , breed by the late iPhone location to-do . Among them , Apple vice prexy of software engineering Bud Tribble ; we look frontwards to the inevitable heartwarming flick on the topic , The difficulty with Mr. Tribble Goes to Washington .
35 . Apple(Fortune )
Apple has jumped to the number 35 spotlight on the Fortune 500 , up from its previous ranking of 56 . The winder to its galactic rise ? A secret plan it care to call “ betray a whole gross ton of mathematical product . ”
Conde Nast Springs Ahead of Hearst With iPad Subscription Pact : Report(Wired )
On the heels of a reported agreement between Apple and Hearst , rival publisher Conde Nast is said to have snag its own exclusive great deal to bring subscriptions to the iPad by the ending of the month . foreign that all the major publishers seem to be jumping onboard now , three month after Apple announced its subscription plan — possibly it was that orbital expiry optical maser Steve Jobs late had instal .
Warner Music bought by Len Blavatnik for $ 3.3bn(The Guardian )
The major record recording label has been snapped up for a tidy heart , despite the fact that its debt total $ 2 billion . Fans of Warner Music Chairman and CEO Edgar Bronfman , Jr. should n’t worry — Bronfy is expect to stay on , along with the balance of the executive team , after the purchase . Because if it ai n’t broke , do n’t fix it , right ? Right ?
How ‘ mirthfulness ’ Stars Used Dance to Grow Their Roles(Backstage )
Buried in this interview withGleestars Heather Morris and Harry Shum Jr.—which you know you were reading anyway — is this titbit : Shum was one of the dancing silhouette in the honest-to-goodness iPod commercials . So much for my hypothesis that they were all Apple executives . ( I totally hear Phil Schiller does a mean pop - and - curl . )
