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Guy Kawasaki / Google+:
What I Learned From Steve Jobs — Many people have explained what one can learn from Steve Jobs. But few, if any, of these people have been inside the tent and experienced first hand what it was like to work with him. I don't want any lessons to be lost or forgotten …
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Hunter Walk / TechCrunch:
#LiveLikeSteve — This is a guest post by Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk), Director of Product Management at Google. I'm fairly certain Steve Jobs wouldn't be satisfied hearing about how your IIe was the gateway to a life in programming. Or your retweet of “[].”
Thanks:hunterwalk
Christopher Carfi / The Social Customer Manifesto:
Steve Jobs Tribute in Bloomberg Businessweek Magazine — Normally, Businessweek comes on Friday. For some reason this week, the magazine showed up today instead. I didn't think much of it when I walked out to the driveway, actually. There it was, folded up in its weatherproof bag, just like usual.
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Christopher Bonanos / New York Times:
The Man Who Inspired Jobs
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Randall Stross / New York Times:
An Analogy of Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Apple Has 1,000 Engineers Working On Chips For The Post-PC Era — As we ponder what will happen to Apple without Steve Jobs, I keep coming back to a conversation I had a few weeks ago with a veteran Silicon Valley CEO who knew Jobs. This was just after Jobs had resigned as CEO of Apple.
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John Cook / GeekWire:
Tech: The worst IPOs of 2011 — The tech industry has produced some of the fastest growing companies on the planet, from Amazon.com in online retail to Google in Internet search. But is tech the best place to park your money when looking at initial public offerings?
Reuters:
Yang eyes Yahoo buyout with private equity — (Reuters) - For the last few years, a widely circulated joke about Jerry Yang was that he had the best tan in Silicon Valley from all the time he spent on Stanford University's golf course. — But the jests stopped about six months ago …
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Joe Brockmeier / ReadWriteEnterprise:
Why FSF Founder Richard Stallman is Wrong on Steve Jobs — It's time for free software to find a new voice. Once again, Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman is putting his feet firmly in his mouth. This time, Stallman says that he's glad Steve Jobs is gone.
Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
Free Texting Apps Are Threat to Wireless Carriers — At a time when e-mail and many other forms of electronic communication are essentially free, wireless carriers are still charging as much as 20 cents to send a text message to a phone, and another 20 cents to receive it.
Noah Davis / Business Insider:
Demand Media Is Cutting Back On Its Massive Volume Of Writing — In an email sent to Demand Media's thousands of freelance writers the company laid out a rather significant shift in strategy. — The so-called “content farm” is cutting back, a process it mentioned in its Q1 report.
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Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
TechCrunch Disrupt Champion Shaker Shakes Down Investors For $15 Million — TechCrunch Disrupt champion Shaker, an Israeli virtual world startup, has closed a $15 million round of financing. The round was led by Shervin Pishevar at Menlo Ventures. CrunchFund was already an investor in Shaker …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
American Express To Release An API For Digital Wallet Platform Serve; Focuses On Data And Personalization — Over the past year, American Express has been making several key payments partnerships with technology companies and launched its take on the digital wallet, Serve.
Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:
Google Must Be Feeling Burned For Investing In Intellectual Ventures — Yesterday, gigantic patent troll Intellectual Ventures sued Motorola for patent infringement over Android. — Google is in the process of buying Motorola in part to provide patent protection for Android.
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