{"id":1004008,"date":"2026-04-21T11:11:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004008"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:49:07","slug":"apples-tim-cook-to-step-down-as-ceo-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/21\/apples-tim-cook-to-step-down-as-ceo-in-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s Tim Cook to step down as CEO in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple on Monday announced that Tim Cook will step down as the tech giant&#8217;s chief executive officer in September, handing the top job to company veteran John Ternus. <\/p>\n<p>The announcement answers long-simmering questions about a successor for 65-year-old Cook, who said he will become executive chairman of the board when he cedes Apple&#8217;s CEO position. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been the greatest privilege of my life to be the CEO of Apple and to have been trusted to lead such an extraordinary company,&#8221; Cook said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple on Monday announced that Tim Cook will step down as the tech giant&#8217;s chief executive officer in September, handing the top job to company veteran John Ternus. The announcement answers long-simmering questions about a successor for 65-year-old Cook, who said he will become executive chairman of the board when he cedes Apple&#8217;s CEO position. &#8220;It has been the greatest privilege of my life to be the CEO of Apple and to have been trusted to lead such an extraordinary company,&#8221; Cook said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}