San Francisco - Apple expects to expand its Silicon Valley workforce by nearly 50 percent during the next three years in a sign of the company's confidence in its ability to keep coming up with hit products such as the iPhone and iPad.
The projections detailed in a report released on Tuesday envision Apple hiring 7,400 more workers at its Cupertino, California, headquarters between now and the planned completion of a new office complex in 2016.
Apple now employs about 16,000 people in and around Cupertino.
Apple submitted the report to city officials as part of its effort to win approval to build a new campus that former CEO Steve Jobs likened to a spaceship shortly before he died in 2011. - Sapa-AP