{"id":7583,"date":"2012-03-10T09:40:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T09:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=7583"},"modified":"2012-03-10T09:48:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T09:48:49","slug":"apple-to-build-304m-campus-add-3600-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/7583\/apple-to-build-304m-campus-add-3600-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple to build $304m campus, add 3,600 jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Inc is expanding its presence in Texas with a $304 million investment to build a new campus in Austin, which will add 3,600 jobs over the next decade, more than doubling its workforce in the city.<\/p>\n<p>The Cupertino, California, consumer device giant already employs thousands in Austin, whose tasks include handling customer complaints and support.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our operations in Austin has grown dramatically over the past decade from less than 1,000 in 2004 to more than 3,500 today,&#8221; Apple spokesman Steve Dowling said.<\/p>\n<p>Apple plans to add jobs in customer support, sales and accounting.<\/p>\n<p>The company is receiving an investment of $21 million over 10 years from a state fund and also possible incentives from Austin and Travis County, according to Texas Governor Rick Perry, who announced the news on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Inc is expanding its presence in Texas with a $304 million investment to build a new campus in Austin, which will add 3,600 jobs over the next decade, more than doubling its workforce in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[25,51,1911],"class_list":["post-7583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-apple","tag-campus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7583"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7592,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583\/revisions\/7592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}