Walter Isaacson

Insights on the writing of Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson shares new information on his best-selling biography of the Apple founder.

FORTUNE -- Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs has topped The New York Times bestseller's list for eight consecutive weeks now. Earlier in the month I interviewed Isaacson for a sold-out audience of the Commonwealth Club of Northern California in San Francisco. For all that has been written about Isaacson's book and for all the people who have read it, there MORE

Steve Jobs on TV's go-to-market problem

He laid out the reasons NOT to build an Apple television at All Things D in 2010

There's been a lot of talk about Apple (AAPL) launching a full-fledged interactive television ever since Walter Isaacson quoted Steve Jobs saying he'd "finally cracked it."

But before the company can successfully market such a product, it must overcome the formidable hurdles that Jobs laid out the year before he died at All Things D8.

He was asked MORE

Today in Tech: Zynga goes public

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* Zynga (ZNGA) raised around $1 billion in its initial public offering (IPO), giving the social gaming champ a $7 billion valuation. Check out colleague Dan Primack's list of the biggest winners to come out of this, including CEO Mark Pincus, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, and Institutional Venture Partners. MORE

Vote: Who makes the better Steve Jobs, Clooney or Wyle?

Your chance to register a preference before Steve Jobs, the movie, is cast

Sony (SNE) has reportedly picked up the film rights to Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs, and according to the Hollywood rumor mill two ER veterans -- George Clooney and Noah Wyle -- are in the running to play the title role.

Clooney, of course, has the edge in box office appeal. But Wyle looks more like Apple's (AAPL) late co-founder MORE

The man who replaced Steve Jobs as chairman of the board

Will Art Levinson change the power balance at Apple? A closer look at the new chairman

One of the first things Steve Jobs did when he returned Apple (AAPL) in 1997 was dismiss the company's board and appoint directors more to his liking, including Genentech CEO Arthur D. Levinson.

"Jobs did not cede any real power to his board," according to Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs. "But he did use its meetings to MORE

Tim Cook and Jony Ive are 'joined at the hip,' says Steve Jobs' biographer

But CEO Cook, according to Walter Isaacson, is Apple's new decider-in-chief

One of the questions that lingers at the end of Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs is who at Apple (AAPL) is going to make the thousands of product decisions -- large and small -- that used to be made by Jobs himself.

The issue is especially problematic because no one at Apple has the power or authority that its co-founder MORE

The 630-page Steve Jobs biography in 3,000 words

In the current New Yorker, Malcom Gladwell boils it down to this: Jobs was a "tweaker"

I'm only 46% of the way through Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs, according to the Kindle app on my iPad, but I've read enough to recognize that Malcom Gladwell has captured the essence of the book -- and the man -- in his 3,000-word review in the current New Yorker.

Gladwell's thesis is that Jobs, at heart, was an MORE

Videogame outsells Steve Jobs biography by more than 13 to 1

All the pre-publicity in the world can't beat a good first-person shooter

It's hard to imagine what more could have been done to drum up interest in Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs. The only biography of Apple's (AAPL) CEO written with Jobs' cooperation hit the bookstores 19 days after his death in a tsunami of publicity, from 60 Minutes to Charlie Rose to Jon Stewart and everything in between.

And the book did MORE

An Apple-branded TV set? Not likely, says Toni Sacconaghi

Sanford Bernstein's top Apple analyst is dubious about Steve Jobs' television dreams

Analysts have been arguing for ages about whether Apple (AAPL) is ever going to enter the $118 billion/year flat-screen TV market. But two things have changed in the past month:

1. Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs quotes him as saying he's "finally cracked" the problem of controlling an integrated cloud-based television.
2. The Siri system that Apple introduced on MORE

Today in Tech: Amazon launches e-book library for Prime users

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* Amazon (AMZN) is launching an e-book library today exclusively for Kindle and Kindle Fire users who are also Amazon Prime subscribers. Initially, the e-commerce giant will offer just 5,000 or so titles -- none of them from the six big publishing houses will. Each user will also only be MORE