Word: cupertino
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...City, Calif., company that boosted the IQ of McCovey's house. Unity sells Home Managers that can be geared to any climate or life-style, whether it means melting the snow off the porches of Connecticut mansions or heating hot tubs in California villas. Gail and Drew Arvay of Cupertino, Calif., rely on a Unity system to run their household while they pursue dual careers. Both of their school-age children and all their regular service people have been issued special pass codes that unlock the doors, as the computer records to the minute everybody's comings and goings. Even...
...first, his strategy of going after sales at major corporations created a legion of skeptics. But now Sculley, who wrested control of Apple in September 1985 from Co-Founder Steve Jobs, can afford to feel vindicated. Partly on the strength of burgeoning corporate sales, the company, based in Cupertino, Calif., posted second-quarter revenues of $637 million, an increase of 42% over the same period a year earlier. Only a year ago numbers like that would have seemed unimaginable. In fact, doubts were rising about whether upstarts like Apple could survive in the rough-and- tumble business. But now that...
...parents, $350 for books--that's food, and heat, and clothing money," says Connie L. Craig '87-'88, from Cupertino, California. "For them, books are an extravagance...
When the high-tech industry in Silicon Valley slows down, everybody, from realtors in Cupertino to restaurant owners along Stevens Creek Boulevard in San Jose, gets a bad case of the blues. But one of the best barometers of the health of California's computer manufacturers is Doug Young. He manages the Porsche dealership in Sunnyvale, in the heart of Silicon Valley. Sales at his showroom, where the most expensive models go for $50,000, are so sensitive to the region's economic trends that a few days of good news will generate a mini Porsche rally. On the other...
Meanwhile, morale at Apple's Cupertino, Calif., headquarters has been sagging. In recent months several executives have sold part or all of their company stock, and some senior managers and engineers have resigned. Stephen Wozniak, who co-founded the company in 1976 with Chairman Steven Jobs, has left his day-to-day duties to start a new company. Since February the company's stock has plummeted by one-third to close last week at 20 1/4. That has generated talk in the industry that Apple will become the target of a takeover attempt or merger bid, possibly...