Al Gore gets option to buy 10,000 Apple shares
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Mar 25, 2008 at 10:12am
Al Gore, former Vice President and member of Apple’s board of directors, got an option to buy 10,000 shares of the computer maker’s stock, reports Bloomberg.
The exercise price is US$129.67 a share, Apple’s closing price on March 19, according to a regulatory filing. The option expires in 10 years. In January, Gore exercised options to buy 1,000 shares at $7.48, “reaping a potential profit of more than $124,000,” notes Bloomberg.
Apple rose $6.26, or 4.7 percent, to $139.53 at 4 p.m. (Eastern) in Nasdaq Stock Market trading.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
