17.12.2010 01:05 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

Apple secrets leaked early by inside traders, arrests reveal

We don't normally cover the "business crime" beat, but there's a pretty interesting gadget angle here. As part of a larger crack down on insider trading, three technology executives and a "salesman for an 'expert network'" have been arrested for leaking confidential tips to hedge funds. What sort of secrets, you ask? A certain executive for Flextronics, Walter Shimoon, happened to pass on information concerning an iPhone update and the iPad well before they became official (Flextronics supplied Apple parts). "At Apple you can get fired for saying K48 outside of a, you know, outside of a meeting that doesn't have K48 people in it. That's how crazy they

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