{"id":1042014,"date":"2026-10-09T08:37:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T03:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042014"},"modified":"2026-10-09T09:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T03:51:12","slug":"apple-names-insider-steve-smith-as-new-ma-chief-memo-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/09\/apple-names-insider-steve-smith-as-new-ma-chief-memo-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple names insider Steve Smith as new M&amp;A chief, memo shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple appointed insider Steve Smith as head of mergers and acquisitions, while moving Adrian Perica to its services division, according to a memo seen by Reuters on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Perica, a more than 17-year veteran of Apple&#8217;s M&amp;A and corporate development function, also took oversight of iCloud, Fitness+ and News, among other businesses, in 2023, the memo written by services chief Eddy Cue said. <\/p>\n<p>Here are some details:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple appointed insider Steve Smith as head of mergers and acquisitions, while moving Adrian Perica to its services division, according to a memo seen by Reuters on Thursday. Perica, a more than 17-year veteran of Apple&#8217;s M&amp;A and corporate development function, also took oversight of iCloud, Fitness+ and News, among other businesses, in 2023, the memo written by services chief Eddy Cue said. Here are some details:<\/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-1042014","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\/1042014","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=1042014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042041,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042014\/revisions\/1042041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}