Former Genentech CEO Art Levinson named chairman of Apple

Computer and popular electronics company Apple Inc. made Arthur Levinson non-executive chairman of its board of directors on Tuesday.
Cupertino-based Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) also added Robert Iger, president and CEO of Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) to its board.
Levinson, who is chairman of South San Francisco-based Genentech and was its CEO in the past, has been on Apple’s board since 2000. Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, said Levinson is the company’s “longest serving co-lead director.”

Changing the course of disease, one tweet or 'like' at a time

"New media” or “social media” is helping recruit to clinical trials and maybe — potentially — even reshaping the way trials are done. But take a look at the companies making this happen: Apple Inc. of Cupertino, Twitter Inc. of San Francisco, WordPress developer Automattic Inc. of San Francisco, YouTube of San Bruno.
These Bay Area technologies are connecting people — whether they are fomenting revolution in the Middle East or trying to revolutionize treatment of a deadly disease — are largely due to Bay Area innovators and entrepreneurs.