Cork Chamber launched a major initiative in London last night to showcase opportunities in what will be the second largest English-speaking city in the EU post-Brexit.

Apple boss Tim Cook has briefed Cork City officials on his company’s multimillion-euro expansion plan at its European headquarters, which would create 1,000 jobs.

Apple is building a major new campus at Cupertino, and it pretty much looks like a spaceship from the future has landed in California.

The European headquarters of the world’s biggest company employs 4,000 workers in Cork, and today Tim Cook announced the creation of a further 1,000 jobs at the site. Peter O’Dwyer got a rare look inside the global tech giants’ Cork plant earlier this year.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

There’s something a little odd about ambling through the only Apple-owned manufacturing facility in the world, watching man and machine combine to build products destined for every corner of Europe, all against the unmistakable backdrop of Cork voices more readily associated with the terraces of the old Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

The Apple Watch will be formally unveiled today, with Apple chief Tim Cook set to confirm key details including the price and launch date of Apple’s first wearable.

Apple is looking beyond mobile devices to learn how to make a self-driving electric car, and is talking to experts at carmakers and automotive suppliers.

Apple has launched its first smartwatch as well as a new enlarged iPhone, called the iPhone 6 Plus.

Technology Goliath Apple has shown something of a softer side with a short, touching tribute to Robin Williams.

Angry slogans were spray-painted last month on walls, garages and a car in Silicon Valley. Now a widening income gap is sparking debate, frustration and even sporadic protests, writes Martha Mendoza

A human resources manager with US multinational Apple said a Cork-based manager, who claims he was unfairly dismissed after turning down a position with the company in California, did not have a “mobility clause” and was under no compulsion to move to the US.

A US judge has erased nearly half of the $1bn in damages that a jury decided that Samsung Electronics should pay Apple in a high-profile trial over the smartphone and tablet computer patents.

Bitter rival Samsung faced two options to compete in the booming mobile phone market after Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone to critical acclaim in 2007 - innovate or copy, an Apple lawyer told a US court.

Lawyers for technology giants Apple and Samsung will fire the first shots in the firms' "rip-off" court battle today.

STEVE JOBS called long-time rival and Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates “unimaginative” and not really a product person, according to a biography of the deceased Apple chief executive.

Steve Jobs, the Apple founder who invented and masterfully marketed ever-sleeker gadgets that transformed everyday technology, has died at the age of 56.

YOU probably didn’t know it had a name, but I’m sure you’ve come across the Cupertino Effect.

Cupertino: Apple chief operating officer Timothy Cook received total compensation of $59.1m (€44.25m) in fiscal 2010, because of bonuses for running day-to-day operations during chief executive Steve Jobs’s medical leave.

A US judge says a monopoly abuse lawsuit against Apple and AT&T’s mobile phone unit can go ahead as a class action.

Voting No again to the Lisbon Treaty could damage Ireland’s chances of attracting foreign investment and new jobs, Foreign Affairs Minister Micheal Martin has warned.

Connie Guglielmo, Bloomberg

Apple has introduced a a tiny iPod that starts at €79 and a bargain computer the size of a paperback book.

Apple Computer has tightened the music-sharing feature in its jukebox software after some Macintosh owners used it to swap songs over the Internet.