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Apple Investor Summit
Walter Isaacson and Steve Wozniak to deliver the keynotes
I've been invited to speak at an Apple Investor Summit being held in Los Angeles next March.
It's shaping up to be an interesting event. Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson and Apple (AAPL) co-founder Steve Wozniak will deliver the keynotes, and the featured speakers include several of our regular commenters, among them Horace Dediu, Andy Zaky, Travis Lewis and Robert Paul Leitao.
The organizers MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 2, 2011 6:49 PM ET -
Video: 75 minutes of unadulterated Steve Jobs
Computerworld has released what may be the longest nonstop interview he ever gave
Recorded in April 1995 for a Smithsonian oral history project, the videotape is the source of much of what its known about Steve Jobs' childhood and his personal views on a wide range of topics -- from what's wrong with education to what was wrong with Apple (AAPL) two years before his return.
Readers of Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 2, 2011 7:25 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Computerworld, Daniel Morrow, Interview, Oral History, Smithsonian, Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson -
Today in Tech: Inside Groupon's tumultuous rise
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* A titillating in-depth look at Andrew Mason and Groupon's inner machinations that allegedly reveals how the company rapidly evolved into a 10,000-strong organization, what Mason is really like, and why the company lost key executives like COO Margo Georgiadis earlier this year. (Business Insider)
* TechCrunch columnist MG Siegler reports that Google (GOOG) is prepping a MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Nov 1, 2011 3:30 AM ETPosted in: Andrew Mason, Bill Gates, Google, Google Reader, Groupon, HP, Steve Jobs, The Verge, Walter Isaacson -
Today in Tech: Steve Jobs' last words
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"Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow." -- Steve Jobs' final words (The New York Times)
* Mark Zuckerberg offered a candid interview with Y Combinator, mentioning that he might have one or two regrets. "In Silicon Valley, you get this feeling that you have to be out here," he said. "But it's MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 31, 2011 3:30 AM ETPosted in: Facebook, Flipboard, Jared Grusd, Mark Pincus, Mark Zuckerberg, Nokia, Spotify, Walter Isaacson, Zynga -
Today in Tech: Netflix's comeback strategy
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* Netflix (NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings published a letter to shareholders earlier this week that (vaguely) explains how his company plans to rally after months of strategic missteps. "We don't have to 'beat' Starz or other networks to succeed," he wrote. "We won't have every movie or TV series; but we MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 26, 2011 3:30 AM ETPosted in: Amazon, Jeff Bezos, MC Hammer, Netflix, Nokia, Reed Hastings, Stephen Elop, Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson -
Today in Tech: Netflix shares plunge 40%
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* Bloomberg reports that Apple (AAPL) may be developing a television set sporting what Steve Jobs told Walter Isaacson is "the simplest user interface you could imagine." Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster predicts such a device could go on sale next year or in 2013. (Bloomberg)
* The "father of the iPod," MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 25, 2011 10:40 AM ETPosted in: Amazon, Apple, iPod, Kindle Fire, Meg Whitman, Netflix, Nokia, Steve Job, Tony Fadell, Walter Isaacson -
Steve Jobs: 'My worst and stupidest staging event'
Among the highlights of the excerpt from Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs in the current issue of Fortune is the story of how Jobs repaired Apple's (AAPL) relationship with Microsoft (MSFT) just in time to get Bill Gates to participate in his 1997 MacWorld keynote. Jobs waited until the end to introduce, after a dramatic pause, Apple's new partner and investor. Suddenly Gates' face appeared, to boos and catcalls, on a giant screen.
"That was my MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 24, 2011 12:40 PM ET -
Steve Jobs cried when he read Time's 1982 Man of the Year
He thought his face was going to be on the magazine's cover, not a computer
"As 1982 drew to a close," Walter Isaacson writes in Steve Jobs, the definitive biography published Monday, "Jobs came to believe that he was going to be Time's Man of the Year."
I read this passage of Isaacson's book with particular interest, since both he (as a junior editor) and I (on a writer's trial) were working MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 24, 2011 8:00 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Jay Cocks, Machine of the Year, Man of the Year, Michael Moritz, Steve Jobs, TIME Magazine, Walter Isaacson -
Piper Jaffray: Apple is already building prototype TV sets
The solution Steve Jobs said he "finally cracked" could be a $6 billion business by 2014
In a note to clients released Monday, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster seizes on remarks attributed to Steve Jobs in the biography published overnight as "another data point" to support a thesis he's been championing since 2009.
"I'd like to create an integrated television set," Jobs told Walter Isaacson, his authorized biographer. "It would be seamlessly synced MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 24, 2011 6:22 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Apple TV, Gene Munster, Patents, Piper Jaffray, Siri, Steve Jobs, television, Walter Isaacson -
Today in Tech: The full Walter Isaacson interview
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"Some people resent the fact that Steve gets credit for everything, but I've never given a rat's a** about that ... Frankly speaking, I'd prefer my name never be in the paper." -- Tim Cook to Walter Isaacson (CNET)
* Fortune's exclusive excerpt from Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, chronicling the former Apple MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 24, 2011 12:30 AM ET
