苹果公司将其并购团队重新划归首席财务官凯文·帕雷克（Kevan Parekh）的管辖之下。此前，该公司在2019年终止了“净现金中性”政策（即公司现金持有量与债务规模保持平衡的政策），分析师认为这一举措为苹果提供了更多的投资机会。同时，苹果还提拔了卡森·奥利弗（Carson Oliver）负责管理App Store的业务；如今，App Store的管理工作主要涉及与欧洲监管机构的协调。
Apple is moving its mergers and acquisitions team back under chief financial officer Kevan Parekh, who ended the company’s net cash neutral policy in May in a move analysts read as room to buy things. It also promoted Carson Oliver to run the App Store, a job that is now mostly about European regulation.
这是苹果自2019年以来首次将其并购团队重新划归首席财务官的管辖。长期担任公司并购职务的史蒂夫·史密斯（Steve Smith）接替了阿德里安·佩里卡（Adrian Perica）的职位，佩里卡此前负责公司的发展战略工作长达十年，并直接向凯文·帕雷克汇报工作。
Apple is moving its mergers and acquisitions team back under the chief financial officer for the first time since 2019. Steve Smith, a longtime lieutenant, replaces Adrian Perica, who has run corporate development for more than a decade, and will report to Kevan Parekh.
据彭博社援引知情人士的消息，佩里卡将继续负责管理iCloud、Fitness+以及News等服务业务，但他仍需向服务部门负责人埃迪·库伊（Eddy Cue）汇报。苹果公司拒绝了我们的采访请求。
Perica keeps iCloud, Fitness+ and News and still reports to services chief Eddy Cue, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the move. Apple declined its request for comment.
约翰·特努斯（John Ternus）于9月1日接替蒂姆·库克（Tim Cook）成为苹果公司的首席执行官。
John Ternus replaced Tim Cook as chief executive on 1 September.
凯文·帕雷克正是那位决定终止“净现金中性”政策的人。他在5月的财报电话会议上表示，苹果将不再维持2018年制定的现金管理目标，而是会独立评估公司的现金和债务状况；分析师认为这一变化为苹果提供了更多的投资空间。截至当时，苹果公司持有约540亿美元的净现金。
Parekh is the executive who dropped the cash target. He told the May earnings call that Apple was abandoning the net cash neutral policy it set in 2018 and would evaluate cash and debt independently, which analysts read as room to buy things. Apple held about $54B in net cash.
苹果公司规模最大的收购案是2014年收购的Beats公司（收购金额为30亿美元）；不过今年该公司还斥资约20亿美元收购了以色列的人工智能公司Q.ai。
Apple’s largest acquisition is still Beats, at $3B in 2014, though it paid about $2B for the Israeli AI firm Q.ai this year.
苹果公司的并购活动不仅限于单纯的收购行为，还包括与其他公司的合作谈判。例如，苹果与ChatGPT的合作使得ChatGPT被集成到了苹果的产品中；此外，苹果还与谷歌达成了长期协议，使谷歌成为苹果产品的默认搜索引擎。我们曾在7月份报道过，苹果曾联系银行家和芯片初创企业，探讨通过收购来解决其人工智能服务器相关的问题。
The group does more than buy companies. It negotiates partnerships, including the 2024 arrangement that put ChatGPT into Apple products and the standing deal that makes Google the default search engine. We reported in July that Apple had approached bankers and chip startups about buying its way out of an AI server problem.
此外，公司内部还有其他几项人事调整：卡森·奥利弗被提升为App Store的副总裁。早在8月31日，我们就报道过他已经开始负责App Store的日常管理工作（此前菲尔·席勒[Phil Schiller]已从App Store的管理工作中退出）。如今，App Store的管理工作主要涉及与欧洲监管机构的协调。
Two other seats moved. Carson Oliver becomes vice president of the App Store. We reported on 31 August that he was already running it day to day, after Phil Schiller stepped back from the store and from product events. That job is now mostly a European one.
欧盟委员会因苹果存在反引导行为而对其处以5亿欧元罚款。7月，欧盟普通法院驳回了苹果“其应用商店属于独立服务”的论点；8月，苹果将欧盟核心技术费改为统一的5%佣金。第三个职位空缺。
The Commission fined Apple EUR 500M over anti-steering, the General Court rejected its argument in July that its app stores are separate services, and in August Apple replaced the EU Core Technology Fee with a flat 5% commission. The third seat is empty.
曾多年负责Apple Pay和Wallet业务的詹妮弗·贝利将于本月离职，而库克尚未任命继任者。随着多位高管相继离开，库克自身的职责范围也不断扩大。员工认为佩里卡和Apple Music的奥利弗·舒瑟最有可能接替他的职位。数一数这些业务。
Jennifer Bailey, who ran Apple Pay and Wallet for years, leaves this month, and Cue has not named a successor. His own remit has grown with every departure, and employees see Perica and Apple Music’s Oliver Schusser as the likely candidates to replace him. Count the businesses.
苹果在欧洲受监管最严格的三大业务分别是App Store、支付业务，以及与谷歌保持合作关系的协议。在六周内，苹果已经更换了其中两项业务的负责人，而第三项则处于空缺状态。
Apple’s three most heavily regulated operations in Europe are the App Store, payments, and the deal that keeps Google on its devices. In six weeks it has changed who runs two of them and left the third vacant.