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Apple Poaches Xerox CFO

Xerox Corp. Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri is beginning 2013 with a new job. At Apple.

Xerox said Friday that Maestri, who joined the company as CFO in February 2011, will step down in February to join Apple as corporate controller, taking over a job vacated by Betsy Rafael, who retired from the iPhone maker last October. He’ll report to Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer.

Apple spokesman Steve Dowling confirmed the hire to AllThingsD, saying the company is “thrilled that Luca Maestri will be joining us. He brings more than 20 years of experience in finance and management, and we look forward to working with him.”

As it should. Maestri has quite the resume. Before joining Xerox, he served as CFO of Nokia Siemens Networks for a few years. Prior to that, he spent 20 years working his way up at General Motors.

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December 30, 2013 at 6:49 am PT

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December 29, 2013 at 2:12 pm PT

BlackBerry Pulls Latest Twitter for BB10 Update

December 29, 2013 at 5:58 am PT

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December 28, 2013 at 12:05 pm PT

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Just as the atom bomb was the weapon that was supposed to render war obsolete, the Internet seems like capitalism’s ultimate feat of self-destructive genius, an economic doomsday device rendering it impossible for anyone to ever make a profit off anything again. It’s especially hopeless for those whose work is easily digitized and accessed free of charge.

— Author Tim Kreider on not getting paid for one’s work