STEVE JOBS

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs

FBI Notes on Steve Jobs Cited Drug Use, Abrasiveness

Newly released Federal Bureau of Investigation files regarding Apple Chairman Steve Jobs noted the computer visionary’s use of drugs, abrasive personality but also his fitness for a prospective government appointment.

Facebook IPO Doesn’t Impress Investors Much

Mark Zuckerberg
A new crop of companies entering the U.S. public markets, including such high-profile offerings as Facebook, are turning the clock back on the way U.S. corporations are run. Investors seems to be not very happy with the IPO.
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Steve Jobs Ad: Why He’d Hate Android Commercial

Steve Jobs spent most of his life scoffing products that weren't created by the company he founded, but in a new Taiwanese commercial for an Android device, he's seen coveting a tablet PC other than the iPad.
The company's logo is seen on the Apple store in Washington

Apple TV to Go Beyond Remote Control; Will it Arrive in 2012?

First it was Smart TV, then 3D TV and now it's time for Apple iTV to complement living rooms. There's already widespread speculation about the company planning a cloud-based TV service, and the rumor received new legs when Walter Isaacson's posthumous Steve Jobs autobiography was released. In the book, Jobs discussed that television was the next domain Apple would conquer.
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Steve Jobs: Apple Founder Mocked in Taiwan Ad for Google Android Action Pad Tablet

A TV advert that uses a Steve Jobs impersonator dressed in wings and a halo to sell an Android tablet computer has been criticized for its poor taste. In the ad, Taiwanese comedian and impersonator Ah-Ken, dressed in Jobs' trademark black turtle neck sweater and blue jeans, extols the virtues of Action Electronics Co.'s combined tablet PC and multi-language dictionary, which runs on Google's Android.
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Angelic 'Steve Jobs' Loves Android in Taiwan TV Ad

He may have derided Android devices in real life but in the afterlife Apple Inc founder Steve Jobs is glad he can use one -- or at least that's the story a Jobs look-alike tells in a recent TV commercial for a Taiwanese electronics company's new product.
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Facebook, and Zuckerberg, embark on mega-IPO

Facebook unveiled what is expected to be Silicon Valley's largest ever initial public offering, but made it clear to outside investors that they will have little voice in its running, as founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will continue to exercise almost complete control.
J.C. Penney Store Revival

JC Penney Revamped: Can Ron Johnson Save Department Stores?

JC Penney's new Chief Executive Ron Johnson thinks shoppers have dropped the coupon-hounding, sale-chasing era when department stores reigned. Retail territory has been ceded to bargain sellers such as Walmart and Target. The former Apple retail executive offered a much-hyped solution last week, mixing branding, a new pricing structure and a buoyant ethos.

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