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Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post:
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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Steve Jobs Biography: A Scorecard of Put-Downs — Every authorized biography includes some score-settling by its subject. Steven P. Jobs, the late Apple co-founder and subject of Walter Isaacson's new book, “Steve Jobs,” proves no different. — A motley assortment of luminaries …
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CNET News, GeekWire, WinRumors, Softpedia News, Seattle Times, MacDailyNews and Business Insider
Janet Maslin / New York Times:
Books of The Times: ‘Steve Jobs’ by Walter Isaacson - Review — After Steve Jobs anointed Walter Isaacson as his authorized biographer in 2009, he took Mr. Isaacson to see the Mountain View, Calif., house in which he had lived as a boy. He pointed out its “clean design” and “awesome little features.”
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App Advice, Bloomberg, Mercury News, Fast Company and Fortune
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Steve Jobs wanted to revolutionize textbooks next — After revolutionizing the digital music business, smartphones and tablets, former Apple CEO Steve Jobs was planning to take on an unlikely project: textbooks. — Jobs apparently wanted to hire textbook writers to create interactive digital versions …
Bloomberg:
Jobs Told Google's Page to Cut Bloat to Avoid Becoming Microsoft — Oct. 22 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs urged Google Inc. Chief Executive Officer Larry Page to sharpen the company's focus and cut products that put it at risk of becoming like Microsoft Corp., according to a biography of Jobs.
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The Next Web
CNET News:
To Jobs, Microsoft and Google 'just don't get it' (video) — Listen to Steve Jobs as he talks about what these two tech giants were lacking in this excerpt from “60 Minutes Overtime” (starting around 0:46 in the video): — Walter Isaacson taped many of his interview sessions …
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Network World, The Next Web, Computerworld and Digits
Vinicius Vacanti / Yipit Blog:
The Chart That Will Scare Away Many Groupon Investors — Today, Groupon filed a prospectus to raise funds via a public offering. Over the next week, they will be pitching investors to participate in this offering. — One question these potential investors should make sure to ask …
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Business Insider and The Huffington Post, Thanks:yipitdata
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Dan Frommer / SplatF:
Here's what actually matters about Groupon (and what doesn't) — Cue the knives and daggers! Groupon is proceeding with its IPO process, and will reportedly conduct its big road show next week. You can watch CEO Andrew Mason pitch the company to potential investors in this amusingly serious video here.
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Business Insider, Associated Press and TechCrunch
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Video: Tie-Wearing Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Pitches IPO To Investors
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DealBook, Dealbreaker, The Register, RyanSpoon.com and Business Insider
Brian Ford / me & her:
Great artists steal the future — Steve Jobs once appropriated an old quote: — “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” — It's becoming more and more clear that Steve felt personally betrayed by Google's decision to enter the smartphone market with Android — an OS that is in almost every important way a copy of Apple's iOS.
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InfoWorld, BGR, Shiny Objects and FierceWireless
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Steve Jobs Was Willing To ‘Rip Off’ Everyone Else... But Was Pissed About Android Copying iPhone?
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iDownloadBlog.com and CNET News
Meghan Kelly / VentureBeat:
Anonymous releases private police information in name of Occupy Wall Street — Anonymous, a hacker collective that has aligned itself with the Occupy Wall Street protests, leaked information it stole from four police and government websites today. — More than 600 MB of data …
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Pastebin, Threat Level, SecurityWeek and Gawker
DigiTimes:
Commentary: Apple being dragged into US-China trade war — Since January 2011, three events have occurred in China which have led some upstream component suppliers to believe there is a conspiracy by the China government to try to suppress Apple's supply chain.
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GigaOM
Brandon Griggs / CNN:
Why computer voices are mostly female — (CNN) — To most owners of the new iPhone, the voice-activated feature called Siri is more than a virtual “assistant” who can help schedule appointments, find a good nearby pizza or tell you if it's going to rain. — She's also a she.
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Business Insider and Guardian
John Cook / GeekWire:
Engineer who ripped Jeff Bezos returns with mea culpa, and a story about the Amazon founder — Last week, Google engineer Steve Yegge accidentally posted a fascinating 4,771 word rant in which he attacked his employer and ripped his former boss, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, as a tight-fisted micromanager.
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Business Insider, The Atlantic Wire and Lifehacker
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Google Voice app returns to iTunes, iOS 5 crash bug fixed — Less than a week after it disappeared from iTunes, the Apple-friendly Google Voice app is back and declared iOS 5 friendly, per its official Twitter account. Also improved is operation when you don't have a data connection …
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@googlevoice, RazorianFly, TiPb, Electronista, MobileBurn.com and GottaBeMobile
George Avalos / Mercury News:
Google pays $100 million for offices in Mountain View, extending a property-buying surge — Google (GOOG) bought a big office complex in Mountain View, in its largest property purchase of 2011 in Silicon Valley, a deal that broadens the tech titan's remarkable expansion plans in the region.
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CNET News
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Testing “Facebook Credits for Websites” That Helps Third-Party Sites Sell Virtual Goods — Facebook has just announced a closed, limited test in which for the first time it will allow websites to process payments for virtual goods using Facebook Credits.
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GameHouse and Facebook Developer Blog
Chris Ziegler / This is my next:
Galaxy Nexus coming to Verizon ‘this year’ — Verizon has just confirmed that it's getting the LTE-enabled version of Samsung's Galaxy Nexus — the first Ice Cream Sandwich device, announced to considerable fanfare earlier this week — though it's not saying exactly when.
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Verizon Wireless, Ubergizmo, VentureBeat, Gizmodo and BGR
Darrell Etherington / GigaOM:
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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Electronista, T-Mobile Newsroom, Business Insider, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, PC Magazine, AndroidGuys, Digital Trends and TiPb
Tom Heneghan / Reuters:
Shock image threshold falls under internet pressure — (Reuters) - The threshold for publishing gruesome images like those of Muammar Gaddafi's death is falling as the internet and social media make many of the editorial decisions that used to be left to a small group of professional journalists.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Dropbox's Mobile API Gets A Security Boost (And Is Now Mobile Web-Friendly) — Red-hot startup Dropbox — you know, the file syncing service that just raised $250 million at a $4 billion valuation — has announced something this week that's getting slightly less attention than its massive funding round …
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The Dropbox Blog
Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
Qwiki May Have Lost 2 Engineers, But It Also Gained 2 New Ones And Landed A Major Distribution Deal — Qwiki, the video search startup, recently lost engineers Matthew Liu and Brad Whitaker. — Gigaom reports that the partings were abrupt and stemmed from a disagreement with CEO Doug Imbruce …
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GigaOM
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
ITC staff dismisses public interest concerns over possible ban of HTC Android devices — Are Apple and Android engaged in a battle to death, and who will go down? That's the big discussion topic du jour. — The Associated Press published excerpts from Steve Jobs's biography according …
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Electronista, PC World and GigaOM
