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Today in Tech: Steve Jobs' private memorial
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"I am not sure i agree that iPads are making music more accessible than ever. Before man kind had bongos and flutes and guitars and such, pretty accessible stuff." -- Bjork (Midem Blog)
* Steve Jobs was honored at a private memorial at Stanford University's Memorial Church last night. In attendance: Google MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 17, 2011 3:30 AM ET -
Today in Tech: How much did Leo Apotheker walk away with?
Fortune's curated selection of newsworthy tech stories from the last 24 hours. Sign up to get the newsletter delivered to you every day.
* Thanks to an 8K HP (HPQ) filed, we now know ousted CEO Leo Apotheker walked away with almost $10 million in payouts and bonuses. Meanwhile, new company head Meg Whitman will earn $1 -- yes, $1 -- a year, joining former Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Google execs Larry Page, MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Sep 30, 2011 3:30 AM ETPosted in: Amazon, AOL, Eric Schmidt, Facebook, Hewlett-Packard, Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Léo Apotheker, Meg Whitman, Mike Arrington, Twitter -
Today in Tech: More iTunes Match info
Fortune's curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web. Sign up to get the newsletter delivered to you every day.
* A beta version of iTunes Match became available last night, and while only developers can currently get at it, the limited software release sheds more light on what the service will be like once it officially rolls out this fall. For the $25 annual fee, music can MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Aug 30, 2011 4:28 AM ETPosted in: Aaron Levie, Apple, Box.net, Google, HTC, iCloud, iOS, iPhone, IpodTouch, iTunes, John Hering, Juniper Research, Kevin Chou, Larry Page, Susan Wojcicki, Verizon -
Google's nagging media problem
The question of whether or not Google is actually a species of media company has dogged it since its early days. Truth is, it's missing one key characteristic.
By Ben Elowitz, contributor
FORTUNE -- Since Google's early rise, this question has consumed hordes of those watching it: Is Google a technology company or a media company? Paradoxically, Google has continuously defied the dichotomy, seeming to succeed in media precisely by maintaining that MORE
Aug 24, 2011 8:10 AM ETPosted in: algorithm, Apple, Ben Elowitz, Buzz, Circles, Facebook, Flipboard, Google, Larry Page, media, Monday Note, Orkut, Search, TechCrunch, Vic Gundorta, Wave -
A $50 Motoroogle Droid?
Google doesn't actually have to make money on its Motorola-brand smartphones
"A year from now, would you purchase an iPhone 6 for $200 if you could get a Google-Motorola Droid 5 smartphone for $50-100 with a 2-year plan from AT&T or Verizon?"
So begins an intriguing thought experiment conducted by the team at Trefis, the stock analysis firm that breaks down companies' stock prices based on the contributions of their major products MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 16, 2011 2:54 PM ET -
How Android came to dominate
Google's $12.5 billion bid to buy Motorola Mobility is likely to reshape the mobile industry. But a deal would have been unimaginable without the surging Android platform.
FORTUNE -- Google's proposed $12.5 billion acquisition of handset maker Motorola Mobility is a bid to protect itself from litigious competitors as well as to dramatically move its mobile business forward. But the search titan's biggest acquisition ever wouldn't even be imaginable if it MORE
Beth Kowitt, Writer-Reporter - Aug 16, 2011 11:12 AM ET -
10 reasons to hate Google
How can this company, asks Brian S Hall, complain about anti-competitive behavior?
The open letter by Google's (GOOG) chief legal counsel attacking Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft (MSFT) and calling for government intervention (see here) has unleashed a flood of outraged responses, but none quite so full throated as the one posted by Brian S Hall on his Smartphone Wars blog.
The nut paragraph:
"If you have a monopoly business and generate monopoly profits and MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 5, 2011 7:07 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Brian Drummond, Brian S Hall, Google, Larry Page, Microsoft, Monopoly, Patents, Sergey Brin, Yelp -
Why Google lashed out at Apple and Microsoft
Android is in deep trouble on the patent front, and its top lawyer knows it
Google's (GOOG) chief legal counsel's angry screed on the company's official blog in which he accuses Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft (MSFT) of waging a hostile, organized, anti-competitive campaign against Android through dubious and bogus patents (adjectives all his) may be remembered as one of the most misguided briefs any high-tech lawyer has ever written.
Not that David MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 4, 2011 6:24 AM ETPosted in: Android, Andy Rubin, Apple, David Drummond, Google, iPhone, Larry Page, Microsoft, Mobile, Nortel, Patents, Sergey Brin -
Google's CFO: Don't worry, be happy
Patrick Pichette, chief financial officer for Google, talks Android, Google Plus, and why it's not evil to pay 6% federal tax rate.
By Jennifer Reingold
FORTUNE -- Just chill out, people. That was the basic message of Google CFO Patrick Pichette at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference this morning. He deflected questions about the next stages of monetizing Google's (GOOG) products by saying, in effect, if you build it, it will come.
"Everybody's so nervous," MORE
Jul 20, 2011 12:54 PM ET -
Google search finds its voice
The tech giant unveiled a slew of new search features, including the ability to search by images and input queries by voice on desktop computers.
FORTUNE -- Google (GOOG) makes a lot of waves with products like Android and Gmail, but its bread and butter is still search. On Tuesday, the company unveiled a slew of new search features, including the ability to search by images and input queries by voice MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Jun 14, 2011 6:11 PM ET
