Apple Poaches SurfaceInk Employees After Severing Ties With the Company?

It seems that Apple has poached numerous employees from SurfaceInk after their collaborative partnership fell apart.

Apple reportedly severed ties with SurfaceInk after the company showcased a prototype 12.1-inch tablet during an electronics trade show.

According to MacRumors, a number of SurfaceInk's employees have recently moved over to be in the direct employment of Apple.


According to LinkedIn profiles, we've identified four engineers from SurfaceInk who became Apple employees as of August 2010: Paul Yuan and Alex Yeung (Product Design Engineers), Jared Kole (Product Development Engineer), and Craig Leong (R&D, Mechanical Engineer). In addition, Josh Pong and Margie Duffy moved in August from SurfaceInk to become Product Development Engineers at Apple through staffing firm Ryzen Solutions, while William Yarak took a Consulting Product Design Engineer position with Apple just this month.

In total, MacRumors documents at least seven former employees that moved to Apple in the past few weeks, with more possibly moving earlier this year.

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