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Steve Jobs as his neighbors see him
A glimpse into his private life from a writer who lives down the street
Here's portrait of Apple's (AAPL) famous CEO that I suspect is unlike any you've read over the past week.
It was posted Monday by his Palo Alto neighbor, Lisen Stromberg, on AOL's Patch and on her personal blog.
Her kicker:
While Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal and CNET continue to drone on about the impact of the Steve Jobs era, I won't be pondering the MacBook MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 1, 2011 6:13 AM ET -
Today in Tech: Is Groupon running out of money?
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* Is Groupon running out of money? Henry Blodget over at Business Insider does the math and concludes -- among other things -- that as of June 30, the leading daily deal site owed $392 million to merchants for sold Groupons, significantly more than the $225 million of MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Aug 18, 2011 3:30 AM ET -
Face it, Google. You're a portal.
Google built its success on a simple search box that disrupted that old-line business, the web portal. So why is it working so hard to become one itself?
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
FORTUNE -- Google is becoming all things online. Its quest to organize all the world's information has pushed it beyond the search box. Google saw that people loved Yelp, so it aggregated reviews. It saw how we took to group-buying MORE
Aug 17, 2011 5:00 AM ET -
Did AOL just out-Flipboard Flipboard?
The company's new news app aggregates content based on your interests, reading habits and your friends -- and it takes the digital magazine concept to the extreme.
By JP Mangalindan, writer-reporter
FORTUNE -- In the year since Flipboard debuted at last year's Brainstorm Tech conference, the news app space has exploded. Users looking for help sifting through online content have a number to choose from: Pulse, FLUD, Zite, News360, and the recently MORE
Aug 4, 2011 2:55 PM ETPosted in: AOL, App Store, Captain America, Facebook, Flipboard, iPad, social network, Twitter, World Wide Web -
HuffPo tries the newspaper model
By churning out loads of lowbrow celebrity gossip and the like, HuffPo hopes to be able to draw the traffic necessary to finance more serious content -- just like newspapers do.
FORTUNE -- The Huffington Post, which built its business largely by aggregating and summarizing news stories reported and written by others, on Monday suspended a young technology writer for aggregating and summarizing a story written by someone else. Also on Monday, MORE
Dan Mitchell, contributor - Jul 12, 2011 1:25 PM ET -
Today in Tech: DVD sales drop, streaming services soar
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Several high-profile Facebook employees have recently left the company, including Jim Midgal, director of business development, Jonathan Heiliger, VP of technical architecture, and Marcel Laverdet, one of three employees who got their jobs by once hacking the social network to resemble MySpace.
JP Mangalindan, Writer - May 4, 2011 10:22 AM ET
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AOL's latest quarterly earnings are in, MORE -
Today in Tech: RIP, Friendster (sort of)
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Remember Friendster? The social network pioneer which launched in 2002 and lost ground to MySpace and then Facebook, is deleting all user-uploaded photos, blogs, comments and groups -- effectively killing off its roots -- repositioning itself as a social entertainment site, and focusing on Asian users. MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Apr 27, 2011 6:30 AM ETPosted in: Amazon, AOL, Brian Solis, Facebook, Friendster, Kevin Rose, MySpace, PlayStation Network, TechCrunch, Twitter, YouTube -
ComScore: Google rules the Tube
That nearest competitor is now AOL, which is one-third its size.
The latest comScore Internet video numbers published today show Google (GOOG) and its YouTube subsidiary out in front in visitors sessions and minutes per viewer.
Google Sites had the highest number of viewing sessions as it neared the 2 billion mark, and highest time spent per viewer at 276 minutes, or 4.6 hours.
Back of napkin math shows that 82% of U.S. MORE
Seth Weintraub - Apr 13, 2011 1:26 PM ET -
Today in Tech: R.I.P. Flip cam, Flock and Download Squad
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It's official: The Flip digital cam is dead. (Long live, Flip.) Cisco, which bought the startup behind the product line for $590 million back in 2009, will close down the business and lay off all 550 staffers as part of a restructuring of its consumer electronics division. The MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Apr 13, 2011 5:00 AM ETPosted in: Accel Partners, AOL, Apple, Download Squad, Flip, Flock, MySpace, Stewart Butterfield, Switched, T-Mobile, Tiny Speck, VentureBeat -
Today in Tech: iPad 2 Day One details, AOL lays off 900
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LinkedIn unveiled a slew of new features during a webcast including "InMaps," which presents a visual map of your relationships and connections, pages called MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 11, 2011 6:40 AM ETPosted in: All Things Digital, Angry Birds, AOL, AOL layoffs, DailyFinance, Dell, Intel, iPad, iPad 2, LinkedIn, LinkedIn Today, RadiumOne, Rovio, TechCrunch, WalletPop, YouTube
