Apple’s hard-charging COO TIm Cook has denied rumors he’s leaving Apple to be the CEO of HP.
Cook denied the rumors this morning while speaking to analyst Brian Marshall of Gleacher & Co., Barrons reports:
Tim Cook will not be going to HP, he loves Apple, Marshall tells me Cook told him.
Apple’s stock took a pounding this morning on the rumor. Cook is credited with turning Apple into a paragon of operational efficiency and is pegged to be Steve Jobs’s successor.