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* Google (GOOG) is developing a home entertainment system that will wirelessly stream music. The move is notable as Google will design and market the hardware itself. (The Wall Street Journal)
* Steve Jobs' 191-page FBI file was released yesterday. Among the random tidbits: the Apple co-founder and former CEO maintained a 2.65 high school GPA, avoided the gym, and once jogged a lot. (The Los Angeles Times)
Startup investor Ron Conway.
* Colleague Miguel Helft profiles prolific startup investor Ron Conway. (Fortune)
* LinkedIn's (LNKD) latest quarterly earnings beat expectations, with revenues climbing to nearly $168 million and a net income of almost $7 million. (TechCrunch)
* The use of streaming services like Spotify, Rhapsody and others, boosted Warner Music's bottom line by $15 million last quarter. Not a huge amount per se, but expect that figure to jump by 36% next quarter. (All Things D)
* An inside look at dating site Zoosk, which reports 15 million monthly users. Up next for its cofounders? Expanding the site's dating services with LinkedIn-like features. (Bloomberg Businessweek)
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* Four board members are leaving Yahoo, including chairman Roy Bostock and HP exec Vyomesh Joshi. As All Things D reports, the Internet company will add three new board members, though their identities are not yet known. (All Things D)
* Amazon upped the content available in its Prime Instant Video MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Feb 8, 2012 10:13 AM ET
An ex-employee asks Inside Apple's author "What creates the perfect Kool-Aid drinker?"
From the Q&A at LinkedIn headquarters
On the first stop on his publicity tour -- at the headquarters of LinkedIn -- Adam Lashinsky met a former Apple (AAPL) employee who had read Lashinky's book and was in a position to comment on how accurately it portrays life Inside Apple.
We've posted the meat of their exchange in the YouTube clip MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 29, 2012 8:06 AM ET
If there is a guru of networking, it is Reid Hoffman. Here he explains how to do it right -- and wrong -- in an excerpt from his new book with Ben Casnocha, The Start-Up of You.
Reid Hoffman travels with several devices so that he can constantly stay in touch.
FORTUNE -- Forget Dale Carnegie. He understood how important connections were, but missed out on the authenticity part -- which, say Reid MORE
Jan 24, 2012 5:00 AM ET
Yes, the social gaming company's stock is off to an ignominious start. But a closer look shows things are more complex than they first appear.
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
FORTUNE -- Several months ago, things were looking very good indeed for Zynga. The casual-gaming company stood apart from other web IPOs of 2011 thanks to its "bountiful" profits. Investors were "excited" by an offering that could value the company at $20 billion.
Now that MORE
Dec 20, 2011 11:42 AM ET
After a spectacular IPO, LinkedIn's stock has lost nearly half its value. Yet it's still trading at 300 times its 2012 earnings. So why are Wall Street analysts recommending you buy it?
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
FORTUNE -- The fears of another technology-stock bubble that prevailed in the first half of the year have faded away in the second half as a concerns about Europe's financial stability took the speculative wind out MORE
Dec 12, 2011 12:07 PM ET
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner argues that unemployment is worse than the numbers would lead you to believe -- and makes bold proposals on how to resolve the crisis.
By Jeff Weiner, CEO, LinkedIn
FORTUNE -- Tonight, President Obama is scheduled to unveil the government's latest plan to address the country's labor crisis. Unemployment is at 9.1%. However, that number only scratches the surface of the magnitude of the problem. There are over MORE
Sep 8, 2011 8:34 AM ET
Another Apple employee loses an iPhone prototype in a bar. I smell a movie script.
The bar at Cava22. Photo: James Martin/CNET
The tech press is never happier than when it's in hot pursuit of the next Apple (AAPL) iPhone. Almost any clue will do -- a purloined case design, a blurry factory photo, a leaked production estimate from a sketchy Asian news source.
That's what made last year's saga of the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 3, 2011 11:37 AM ET
A new crop of apps from Amazon, LinkedIn and Box.net are the latest to take advantage of HTML5. They also signal this young language already has business' blessing.
FORTUNE -- Something in the last 18 months kicked the HTML5 adoption machine into overdrive. Maybe it was tech giants Apple and Microsoft joining hands and dubbing it the future of the web. Maybe it was Google's launch of the Chrome Web Store, MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Aug 30, 2011 11:06 AM ET
If anyone has access to Channel Trend's latest report on Apple, I would love to see it (Update: Got it!)
Source: Channel Trend
On Saturday night, this headline flashed across one of the news feeds I use to follow the analysts who track Apple (AAPL):
"On August 20, 2011 Channel Trend Inc. downgraded APPLE INC.from NEUTRAL to UNFAVORABLE."
My first thought was "seriously?" My second was "tell me more."
I've seen some boneheaded advice MORE
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| Company | Price | Change | % Change |
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| Bank of America Corp... | 7.95 | -0.16 | -1.97% |
| Microsoft Corp | 31.27 | -0.17 | -0.54% |
| Ford Motor Co | 12.28 | -0.25 | -2.00% |
| General Electric Co | 19.39 | 0.17 | 0.88% |
| Citigroup Inc | 32.36 | -1.00 | -3.00% |
| Index | Last | Change | % Change |
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| Dow | 12,938.67 | -27.02 | -0.21% |
| Nasdaq | 2,933.17 | -15.40 | -0.52% |
| S&P 500 | 1,357.66 | -4.55 | -0.33% |
| Treasuries | 2.00 | -0.04 | -1.96% |
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