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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Exclusive: Tim Cook e-mails Apple employees: “Apple is not going to change” — Tim Cook has already stepped up to reassure Apple employees that the company isn't going to change, according to an internal e-mail seen by Ars. Sent early Thursday to all employees in the company …
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Apple:
Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple — Tim Cook Named CEO and Jobs Elected Chairman of the Board — Apple's Board of Directors today announced that Steve Jobs has resigned as Chief Executive Officer, and the Board has named Tim Cook, previously Apple's Chief Operating Officer, as the company's new CEO.
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Vic Gundotra / Google+:
Icon Ambulance — One Sunday morning, January 6th, 2008 I was attending religious services when my cell phone vibrated. As discreetly as possible, I checked the phone and noticed that my phone said “Caller ID unknown”. I choose to ignore. — After services, as I was walking to my car with my family …
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Apple:
Letter from Steve Jobs — To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community: — I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come. — I hereby resign as CEO of Apple.
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Walt Mossberg / AllThingsD:
Essay: Jobs's Departure as CEO of Apple Is the End of an Extraordinary Era — Steve Jobs' resignation as Chief Executive Officer of Apple is the end of an extraordinary era, not just for Apple, but for the global technology industry in general. Mr. Jobs is a historic business figure whose impact …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Steve Jobs and the sound of silence — Like many of my colleagues in Silicon Valley, I was having a fantastic day today. It is crisp in the shade, warm in the sun. The skies are a magical blue with puffy clouds floating like dreams. And when all seemed to be going well, an email in my inbox …
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Steve Jobs's Best Quotes — Steve Jobs has stepped down as CEO of Apple, the company he founded and turned into the largest technology company in the world. Although his tenure as CEO will be remembered for ushering in fundamental changes in the way people interact with technology …
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Apple Patents Show Steve Jobs's Attention to Design — When people in the technology industry speak of Steven P. Jobs's knack for design, they often have Apple's iconic products in mind: the early all-in-one Macintosh computers, the first iMacs with their brightly colored and translucent cases …
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Bloomberg:
Wozniak, Kerner, Haverty on Steve Jobs Resignation — Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Inc., Lou Kerner, managing director at Wedbush Securities Inc. and Lawrence Haverty, a portfolio manager at Gamco Investors Inc., talk about Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs\'s decision to resign and the outlook for the company.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Resigned — Reading around the web an hour ago, looking for confirmation of the then-minutes-old news that Steve Jobs had resigned as CEO, I repeatedly encountered and bridled each time at use of the adjective “shocking” to describe the announcement. But my initial resentment was unwarranted.
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Allen Paltrow:
My Experience with Jobs and Apple
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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Apple posts new official executive organization chart
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Analysts react to Steve Jobs resignation: Apple move expected, Cook a star, buy
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Apple's Stock: Looks Like Jobs's Departure Was Priced In
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CmdrTaco / Slashdot:
Rob “CmdrTaco” Malda Resigns From Slashdot — from the steve-got-front-cutsies dept. — After 14 years and over 15,000 stories posted, it's finally time for me to say Good-Bye to Slashdot. I created this place with my best friends in a run down house while still in college.
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Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:
Samsung's New Galaxy S II Won't Be Carried by Verizon — Samsung Electronics Co. will introduce its Galaxy S II smartphone next week—considered its best shot at cutting into the iPhone's market share dominance—but the company will have to do it without the biggest U.S. wireless carrier: Verizon Wireless.
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Josh Williams / Gowalla:
Going Forward — A little over two years ago we unveiled a new way to share and discover the world's most loved places. Little did we know that our product would inspire people in every country around the world to venture out and share their lives on the go.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Skype Launches Third-Party App Directory — Skype appears to have launched a new app directory in the cloud, allowing users to access all the third-party apps for both consumers and businesses built on top of Skype's API. — The site is fairly simple in functionality for now …
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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
German Galaxy Tab 10.1 injunction: upheld for the time being, ruling on September 9 — I changed plans a few days ago and didn't travel to today's court hearing in Düsseldorf on the Apple v. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Community design inringement case. After the suspension of the enforcement …
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Owen Williams / Neowin.net:
Microsoft confirms Mango front facing cameras, Skype soon [Updated: Video proof!] — At Microsoft Tech Ed in New Zealand Microsoft has finally confirmed that front facing cameras (as well as support for them) is officially coming with the Mango update which is due to hit soon.
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Daniel Rubino / WPCentral.com:
Mango supports Internet Sharing/Mobile Hot Spot feature
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Derrick Harris / GigaOM:
Verizon buys CloudSwitch to give itself a software play — Verizon is buying cloud computing startup CloudSwitch in a move that will give Verizon, as well as its cloud subsidiary Terremark, a software-development edge to complement its service-provider expertise.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Music Search Startup SoundHound Partners With Spotify For Instant Streaming — Music search and discovery company SoundHound has inked a deal with digital music service provider Spotify to enable SoundHound users in Europe to instantly access the latter's catalogue (of over 15 million tracks).
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook Announces f8 Developer Conference: September 22 — Facebook has just started sending out invitations to f8, its semi-regular developer conference during which it typically rolls out its most important features. — This year's event will take place on September 22 in San Francisco …
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Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Ladies love e-readers; guys prefer tablets — Is it too early to assign gender stereotypes to gadgets? New Nielsen data suggests that e-readers are more popular with women while guys prefer their tablets. Smartphones are now equally popular between the sexes.
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Tom Anderson / The Next Web:
How Google+ will succeed and why you'll use it whether you want to or not. — Editor's note: This is a guest post written by Tom Anderson, the founder & former President of MySpace. Follow him on Google, Twitter, and Facebook. — There's been more than a few “Google+ is doomed” articles as of late.
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Daniel Bailey / ConceivablyTech:
Mozilla Abandons Version Number Removal Plans — We have to admit that we are a bit late reporting this one and are somewhat puzzled how we could have missed this one. Mozilla said that that it will not be pursuing the idea of removing the browser version number from its usual location.
