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Jobs's final plan: an ‘integrated’ Apple TV — View Photo Gallery — Steve Jobs, who co-founded Apple and revolutionized personal computing, died Oct. 5. He suffered from a rare form of pancreatic cancer. — The new biography on Steve Jobs has a major product reveal: Apple may drop a full-fledged television.
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New Book Details Jobs's Fight Against Cancer
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Steve Jobs Biography Reveals He Told Obama, 'You're Headed For A One-Term Presidency'
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Jobs questioned authority all his life, book says
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Steve Jobs biography reveals he thought Bill Gates “ripped off other people's ideas”
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1 in 4 tablets from last quarter run on Android? Hmmm..... Android tablets are quickly eating into Apple's iPad leading market share with 26.9 percent of shipped tablets in the third quarter running Google's mobile operating system. A Strategy Analytics report published on Friday comes to that conclusion …
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Android Tablets Gained on IPad in Third Quarter, Researcher Says — Sales of tablet computers running Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Android software rose last quarter at the expense of Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iPad, after companies led by Samsung Electronics Co. introduced new models, according to a researcher.
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Video: Tie-Wearing Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Pitches IPO To Investors — Andrew Mason (30), who co-founded Groupon and currently serves as its CEO, hasn't often been spotted wearing a business suit and tie. But when you're pitching investors on an initial public offering …
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HEY, GROUPON HATERS, ANALYZE THIS: Groupon Breaks Even In Q3
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Groupon Sets Nov. 4 IPO
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Groupon to raise up to $540 million in IPO: filing
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Last week I accidentally posted an internal rant about service platforms to my public Google+ account (i.e. this one). It somehow went viral, which is nothing short of stupefying given that it was a massive Wall of Text. The whole thing still feels surreal. — Amazingly, nothing bad happened to me at Google.
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Amazon Throws A Minor Curveball With HTML5-Powered Kindle Format 8 — Amazon has announced an update to the Kindle file format integrating many HTML5 tags and CSS attributes. Many expected a concession by Amazon in the form of an EPUB-compatible upgrade, and this comes as a slight surprise …
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T-Mobile wants the iPhone, but only if it's AWS-compatible — In an official statement released on Thursday, T-Mobile SVP of Marketing Andrew Sherrard addressed T-Mobile's absence from the lineup of U.S. carriers offering the iPhone — a list that now even includes regional carrier C Spire.
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Murdoch says Myspace was “mismanaged in every possible way”, could have sold for $6 billion — To say that News Corp has had some problems over the past few years would be a grievous understatement, but that's about the best way in which it can be stated. In short, the company has been a carnival …
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Reed Hastings Knows He Messed Up — Part of Steve Jobs's legacy is how incredibly well he managed the Apple product rollouts. What do you think Jobs, who never minced words, would say about how Netflix has operated in the last three months? — I'm not going to put words in a deceased man's mouth.
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Verizon sold 2M iPhones last quarter, 700K less than AT&T — Verizon, the largest wireless carrier in the U.S., sold two million iPhone 4 units last quarter, falling 700,000 short of rival AT&T. The carrier also declined to reveal its launch numbers for the iPhone 4S.
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Verizon's third quarter: 1.4 million LTE devices boost wireless unit
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Sprint to nix ‘unlimited’ from mobile broadband and hotspot plans in November — We'd heard rumblings that unlimited data for Sprint's mobile hotspot plan was going the way of the dodo, but come November folks, it'll be official. Data sent and received over tethering — not smartphone usage — will now be measured against a 5GB cap.
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Al Gore on Steve Jobs: He's The Kind of Guy That Comes Along Once Every 250 Years — As an Apple board member, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore spent a lot of time with company co-founder Steve Jobs, who passed away earlier this month. During an interview at AsiaD today …
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Al Gore: T-Mobile / AT&T merger unlikely, will be hard to overcome Justice Department's challenge
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On Facebook, NATO Chief Announces End to Libya War — This has to be a first in the annals of social media. The commander of NATO's Libya war has announced his intent to end hostilities through Facebook. — In a short post on his Wall Friday morning, Adm. James Stavridis told the world …
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Building a Firewall for the Facebook Generation — Palo Alto Networks is updating the corporate firewall to handle modern Web services like social networks, Skype, and Google Docs — For the past 15 years or so, security pros have relied on the trusty firewall and other hardware …
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Facebook And Google Spent Record Amounts On D.C. Lobbying In Q3 2011 — Each quarter, Facebook and Google continue to spend more and more on lobbying efforts in Washington D.C. As evidenced by the most recent disclosure reports filed in the U.S. Senate's lobbying database …
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A Google TV 2.0 Sneak Peak — After reading my Google TV 2.0 lament, our friend Scott Greczkowski of Satellite Guys passed us a few dozen action shots of the upcoming lean back experience. — The original Google TV initiative, comprised of Sony and Logitech hardware, wasn't exactly well received in the marketplace.
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Mobile phone brain cancer link rejected — Mobile phone safety has been much debated over the past two decades — Further research has been published suggesting there is no link between mobile phones and brain cancer. — The risk mobiles present has been much debated over the past 20 years as use of the phones has soared.
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Exclusive: Yahoo Overhauls Marketing Unit — The Internal Memo — Yahoo is drastically rejiggering its marketing division, according to an internal memo sent today to employees from its Chief Marketing Officer Elisa Steele, in a move that seems to leave her future role unclear.
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Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus WiFi hitting the US November 13th for $400, available in 16GB for now — Nearly a month after its initial announcement, Samsung's ready to deliver the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus to the good ol' US of A just in time for the winter gift-giving season.
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