Tim Cook Denies Rumor He’s Leaving Apple for HP

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Is Apple Chief Operating Officer Headed for HP CEO Chair?
Is Apple Chief Operating Officer Headed for HP CEO Chair?

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.

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