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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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#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 “[].”
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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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The Man Who Inspired Jobs
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An Analogy of Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs
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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 …


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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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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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?


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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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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FOSS Patents and Betabeat


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.


Apple outs more powerful Apple TV (dual-core A5?) in iOS 5 file system — We've been hoping for a new Apple TV since Apple began transitioning its iOS device lineup to dual-core A5 processors, and we now have some compelling evidence for a next-generation Apple TV being in the works.
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German government accused of spying on citizens with state-sponsored Trojan — Summary: A well-established group of German hackers has accused the German government of releasing a backdoor Trojan into the wild. Security firm F-Secure has confirmed that the program includes a keylogger …
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Naked Security, F-Secure Antivirus …, Chaos Computer Club Updates, Geekosystem, Examiner and Hardware 2.0 Blog, Thanks:edbott