Coffee with Apple chief: $610,000

A bidder has paid more than $A$600,000 at a charity auction for a coffee date with Apple's CEO. Source: AAP

AN anonymous bidder paid $US610,000 ($A619,509.47) in a charity auction for coffee date with Apple chief Tim Cook, the organisers said Wednesday.

The Tim Cook auction tied the record for highest winning bid at charity auction site Charitybuzz, according to a statement from the group and its partner, The Robert F. Kennedy Centre for Justice & Human Rights.

The bid tied a record set by a 2013 Lamborghini Aventador Roadster auctioned in March 2013 for $610,000, the statement said.

"We're truly amazed by the results of Tim Cook's remarkable donation," said Coppy Holzman, Charitybuzz chief executive and founder.

"Sincere thanks goes out to Charitybuzz's community of socially conscious bidders here in the US and overseas... we are thrilled to have amassed more than $1 million this spring for the RFK Centre's powerful work."

The coffee chat with Cook was limited to two guests, who would be subject to security screening and be responsible for their own travel and accommodations.

It was the first time that Cook made his time available as part of the annual fundraising event.

The centre is also raising money with other celebrity-laden offers, such as a lunch with famed filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola in California wine country, and time with actors Robert DeNiro, Alec Baldwin or William Shatner.

It plans to auction a chance to tour Space-X rocket, a day at training camp with NFL quarterback Peyton Manning and lunch with Robin Williams on the set of his next film.

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Where to find Australia's cheapest coffee

Now that's a coffee. Source: Herald Sun

SYDNEY may be Australia's most expensive city, but at least the coffee's cheap.Well, cheaper than other Australian capital cities, anyway.

A takeaway cappuccino in Sydney costs $3.22 on average, about 15 cents less than it would cost you in Melbourne and 20 cents less than in Brisbane.

Perth was the most expensive capital, with the average cappuccino costing $3.89, and some cafes charging more than seven dollars.

That's according to research from coffee machine company Gilkatho.

The research also showed a fall in coffee bean prices had not made a morning coffee any cheaper for consumers.

"What's clear, however, is the fact that what people pay for a coffee has nothing to do with the cost of coffee (beans)," Gilkatho managing director Wayne Fowler said.

"The selling price continues to increase in spite of coffee prices decreasing. This is a pretty good indication that the price of coffee beans tends not to be passed on to the consumer."

Gilkatho surveyed more than 1100 coffee venues across capital cities to compile its Cappuccino Price Index.

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Compo for coffee? A real pain in the tech

WORKERS who trip at home while checking email on a smartphone or scald themselves with a coffee while working on a laptop at a cafe could be entitled to workers' compensation.

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Compo for coffee? A real pain in the tech

WORKERS who trip at home while checking email on a smartphone or scald themselves with a coffee while working on a laptop at a cafe could be entitled to workers' compensation.

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