Myspace may be the most high-profile failure to turnaround a major Internet media property. Now, ex-CEO Michael Jones reveals what went wrong -- and why.
By Michael Jones, contributor
FORTUNE -- Over the last two years, I served as co-president and then CEO of Myspace. I am often asked, "Why did you take that job?" It is a fair question. As a former startup entrepreneur, the Myspace role seemed out of character. MORE
Oct 24, 2011 2:23 PM ET
Gates looming over Jobs at Macworld 1997
Among the highlights of the excerpt from Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs in the current issue of Fortune is the story of how Jobs repaired Apple's (AAPL) relationship with Microsoft (MSFT) just in time to get Bill Gates to participate in his 1997 MacWorld keynote. Jobs waited until the end to introduce, after a dramatic pause, Apple's new partner and investor. Suddenly Gates' face appeared, to boos and MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 24, 2011 12:40 PM ET
Analyst sees "ominous signs" for Android vendors. Says Q4 may be the quarter 'droid users switch to Apple's iPhone 4S
Click to enlarge. Source: Morgan Keegan
Drawing from AT&T's (T) and Verizon's (VZ) reports for the September quarter, Morgan Keegan's Tavis McCourt sees what could be bad news for the makers of Android phones and good news for Apple (AAPL).
In a note to clients issued Monday, he writes (I quote):
After analyzing AT&T MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 24, 2011 10:58 AM ET
He thought his face was going to be on the magazine's cover, not a computer
Copyright: Time Inc.
"As 1982 drew to a close," Walter Isaacson writes in Steve Jobs, the definitive biography published Monday, "Jobs came to believe that he was going to be Time's Man of the Year."
I read this passage of Isaacson's book with particular interest, since both he (as a junior editor) and I (on a writer's MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 24, 2011 8:00 AM ET
The solution Steve Jobs said he "finally cracked" could be a $6 billion business by 2014
Click to enlarge. Source: www.patentlyapple.com
In a note to clients released Monday, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster seizes on remarks attributed to Steve Jobs in the biography published overnight as "another data point" to support a thesis he's been championing since 2009.
"I'd like to create an integrated television set," Jobs told Walter Isaacson, his authorized biographer. MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 24, 2011 6:22 AM ET
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"Some people resent the fact that Steve gets credit for everything, but I've never given a rat's a** about that ... Frankly speaking, I'd prefer my name never be in the paper." -- Tim Cook to Walter Isaacson (CNET)
* Fortune's exclusive excerpt from Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, chronicling the former Apple MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Oct 24, 2011 12:30 AM ETSteve Jobs and Bill Gates were the ultimate frenemies. Read about the roots of their relationship in this exclusive excerpt from Walter Isaacson's new book, Steve Jobs, which hits bookstores today.
1985: The young and the restless. Gates and Jobs, photographed at Tavern on the Green in New York City
FORTUNE -- The complex relationship between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs began in the late 1970s, when Microsoft was making most MORE
Oct 24, 2011 12:01 AM ET
Words to remember him by
Source: Paul Kedrosky
A tag cloud created by Infectious Greed's Paul Kedrosky from the most-frequently used words on Apple's (AAPL) Steve Jobs tribute page. Data extracted from more than 10,000 messages by Neil Kodner.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 23, 2011 10:16 AM ET
Wall Street's first Apple evangelist -- and the former chairman of Compaq -- reminisces
Source: Ben Rosen
The 140-word Wikipedia entry on Benjamin M. Rosen hardly does him justice. For more than a decade -- starting in 1980 when he left Morgan Stanley and co-founded Sevin Rosen Management -- Ben Rosen was personal computing's most influential power broker, a visionary financier who backed dozens of high-tech start-ups, including Compaq, Citrix, Cyprus, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 23, 2011 8:21 AM ET
CEO Scott Heiferman is careful to make the distinction between his personal views and those held by his company. But that doesn't mean it hasn't benefited from a surge of users on the service.
By Alex Kantrowitz, contributor
FORTUNE -- Occupy Wall Street protests have rapidly spread across the globe this month -- with some help from Meetup. In early October, the NYC based organizing platform integrated its technology into Occupytogether.org and MORE
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