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President Obama wined and dined many of Silicon Valley's top execs last night during his first official trip to the San Francisco Bay Area. On the guest list: Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Oracle CEO MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Feb 18, 2011 8:33 AM ET
It can feel like a cult, he says. And behind the scenes, it's "all sell, sell, sell!"
A store opening in Australia. Image: Nodeblue
Apple's (AAPL) 46,600 employees tend to like where they work, and it's rare that one talks out of school.
But in the current issue of Popular Mechanics, of all places, an Apple retail store employee talks candidly -- if anonymously -- about what's going on behind MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 18, 2011 7:19 AM ET
It's Sulzberger vs. Murdoch in the battle of the unnamed Apple sources
Photo: Pictures Portal
On Monday, the Wall Street Journal, citing "people familiar with the matter" -- one of whom claimed to have seen a prototype -- reported that Apple (AAPL) was working on an iPhone code-named N97 that was half the size and could be sold for half the price of the current model.
On Friday, the New York Times, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 18, 2011 6:13 AM ET
The White House has released the official list:
Photo: The White House
John Doerr, partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Carol Bartz, CEO, Yahoo! (YHOO)
John Chambers, CEO, Cisco Systems (CSCO)
Dick Costolo, CEO, Twitter
Larry Ellison, CEO, Oracle (ORCL)
Reed Hastings, CEO, NetFlix (NLFX)
John Hennessy, president, Stanford University
Steve Jobs, CEO, Apple (AAPL)
Art Levinson, chairman, Genentech (DNA)
Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google (GOOG)
Steve Westly, managing partner, Westly Group
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Facebook
President Obama is scheduled to meet Intel's (INTC) MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 17, 2011 6:23 PM ET
Why would Symantec's CEO suggest that Macs are just as vulnerable as Windows PCs?
Source: CNNMoney
Maybe to sell more anti-viral software.
That's the only explanation I can give for Enrique Salem's performance in a video posted on CNNMoney Thursday entitled "Macs are no safer than PCs." (Video below the fold.)
Fortune's Adam Lashinsky asked Symantec's (SYMC) CEO several different ways whether a Mac was as likely to get attacked by malware MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 17, 2011 2:40 PM ET
Paul Otellini told a group of analysts last night that Nokia's choice of Windows Phone 7 over Android was simply a financial decision.
Otellini on left, happier times from GigaOm.
According to a Reuters report this morning, Paul Otellini isn't too thrilled with Nokia's (NOK) decision to go with Microsoft (MSFT) Windows Phone 7. In fact he thinks that Nokia chose the wrong platform and that the decision was strictly a monetary one.
Clearly, Otellini MORE
Seth Weintraub - Feb 17, 2011 1:43 PM ETIt seems the company's best days are behind it, or that Facebook is eating its lunch. But maybe Google is so far ahead of the game that we're the ones who need to catch up.
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
What is going on with Google? Sure, today President Obama will be meeting with Eric Schmidt at a tech executive meet-up in Silicon Valley, but he almost seems an also-ran compared MORE
Feb 17, 2011 1:20 PM ET
Last quarter, Apple's shipments grew nearly 7 times faster than the market's
Chart: Needham & Co.
December marked the 19th straight quarter that Mac shipment growth has outpaced the market's, and in note to clients earlier this week, Needham's Charlie Wolf used IDC's numbers to break down Apple's (AAPL) sales by market segment. Among his findings:
Mac sales to the worldwide home market grew 17.1% year over year in the December quarter, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 17, 2011 11:28 AM ET
Hoping to keep up the the Bings and Facebooks of the world and ideally pass them, Google now integrates connections into search results.
If Facebook won't let Google (GOOG) have access to its social graph, it is pretty clear that Google will go everywhere else, including its own Blogger platform, Twitter, LinkedIn and Yahoo (YHOO) Flickr.
The idea is pretty simple. When you log into Google, your friends on Twitter/Blogger/Flickr/LinkedIn, etc who have promoted MORE
Seth Weintraub - Feb 17, 2011 10:38 AM ET
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"I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords." -- Jeopardy contender Ken Jennings during last night's competition.
President Obama will dine with Steve Jobs, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Intel CEO Paul Otellini, and Cisco CEO John Chambers at a private dinner in San Francisco MORE
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