Today in Tech: The exclusive Steve Jobs book excerpt

October 20, 2011: 11:07 AM ET

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"I'm not a very social person," but "Google+ I instantly found compelling."
- Google cofounder Sergey Brin (Search Engine Land)

The first excerpt from Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs will appear in the pages of Fortune this Monday.

* Looking forward to Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Steve Jobs? The first exclusive excerpt, highlighting Jobs' nearly 30-year frenemy relationship with Bill Gates, will run in the latest issue of Fortune available via newsstands and the iPad app this Monday. A preview of the excerpt will appear online early Monday as well. (Fortune)

* Mountain View-based startup Lytro announced the Lytro camera, a slick, slender, rectangular device that lets users focus or refocus an image any time after the image is actually taken. (Fortune)

* eBay (EBAY) announced its third quarter revenues jumped 32% to $3 billion and income climbed 18% to $628 million driven largely by PayPal. (TechCrunch)

* Is Groupon planning a scaled back initial public offering (IPO)? (The Wall Street Journal)

* Digg founder Kevin Rose announced the first product from his new startup Milk: an app called Oink that lets users find and rate "things not people." (Information Week)

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JP Mangalindan
JP Mangalindan
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With a background in consumer products and pop culture trends, JP Mangalindan has brought his ability to spot the next big things to his coverage of the tech industry for Fortune.com, writing on topics as diverse as the evolution of net neutrality and the influence of social media. A graduate of Fordham University, Mangalindan has written for GQ, Popular Science, Entertainment Weekly, and nymag.com. He lives in San Francisco.

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