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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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Mountain View-based startup Lytro unveiled a revolutionary new camera that looks nothing like a traditional point-and-shoot.
Lytro founder Ren Ng holds the new Lytro camera. Photo: JP Mangalindan
FORTUNE -- It could be a godsend for awful photographers around the world. Mountain View-based startup Lytro, which launched earlier this year and demoed at Brainstorm Tech last July, just unveiled a line of "light field" cameras that capture more color, intensity and light MORE
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| Company | Price | Change | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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