Norfolk County Council beats Apple in iPhone row

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 10:57:26 GMT
BBC News - Technology

The local authority - and others - had accused the tech giant of misleading shareholders

Apple has agreed to pay £490m to settle a lawsuit led by Norfolk County Council.

The class action alleged the tech giant's boss Tim Cook defrauded shareholders by covering up lower demand for iPhones in China.

Norfolk Council said a pension fund it administered lost money as a result of Mr Cook's actions.

The English local authority - and the other claimants who joined the action - were all investors who had bought shares between November 2018 and January 2019.However, two months later, on 2 January 2019, Apple downgraded its quarterly revenue forecast, citing tensions between China and the US.That led to a sharp drop in the share price of Apple, and losses for the claimants.

Norfolk County Council administers a pension fund worth about £4.9bn. It is not known what portion of the settlement it will receive.

Apple posted $97 billion of net income in it the last fiscal year.

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Norfolk County Council says "investigations into the fault are ongoing".

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