Donald Trump sends invitation to meeting with leaders of Apple, Facebook, Google

(Baonghean.vn) - Newly elected US President Donald Trump has sent invitations to senior leaders of many famous technology corporations such as Apple, Facebook, Google, ... to attend a summit at Trump Tower, New York City next Wednesday.

Invitations were sent out last week to nearly 10 Silicon Valley leaders, including Apple CEO Tim Cook; Alphabet (Google's parent company) CEO Larry Page; Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg; Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella; Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins; IBM CEO Ginni Rometty; Intel CEO Brian Krzanich; and Oracle CEO Safra Catz. Two other leaders who could also receive invitations are Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and a very famous figure, Elon Musk, co-CEO of Tesla and SpaceX.

Donald Trump and Apple CEO Tim Cook are at odds over where iPhones and other Apple products are manufactured.

The people in charge of sending Trump's invitations are said to be Trump's chief of staff, Reince Preibus; investor and Trump supporter, billionaire Peter Thiel; and Trump's son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner. This team spent a lot of effort to convince senior executives of leading technology companies to attend the conference, when during the election campaign, Trump always made statements against the high-tech industry.

Previously, a controversial issue was that Trump wanted Apple to manufacture its products in the United States, including iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks, instead of in China and some other countries as it is now. The discord between Trump and Apple has been around for a long time, since the day he called for people to boycott Apple when they refused to help the FBI unlock a criminal's iPhone.

According to US sources, although reluctant, most of the CEOs who received the invitation will attend the upcoming 4th summit, to cooperate and have a common voice with the head of the White House. Of course, there will inevitably be those who avoid Trump because the invitation was sent too late and they cannot arrange their work. We will update more information after the official conference takes place.

Quan Le

(according to Apple Insider)