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Americans recall personal impacts of Jobs' vision
(AP) -- Steve Jobs urged people to think different, and wowed them when his own different thinking put thousands of songs in their pockets, the power of the Internet at their fingertips and a whole world ...
Oct 07, 2011 |
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Cook has deep shoes to fill at Jobs-less Apple
The death of visionary Steve Jobs has left huge shoes to fill at Apple, with agile competitors mounting a continuous assault on the company's hit iPhones, iPads and other groundbreaking products.
Oct 06, 2011 |
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Apple co-founder Wozniak recalls a friend in Jobs
(AP) -- When Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs in a Silicon Valley garage in 1976, he couldn't have known the incredible footprint that Jobs would leave on the consumer electronics landscape.
Oct 06, 2011 |
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Jobs tributes light up iPhones, Twitter worldwide
(AP) -- There was no makeshift memorial or candlelight vigil for Steve Jobs at the Apple Store in downtown Chicago. The news of his death, and then the tributes and condolences, were in news alerts, tweets ...
Oct 06, 2011 |
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LED startup Switch Lighting hopes to light the way in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is known for computer chips, software companies and social networks - but not light bulbs.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 03, 2011 |
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Oracle uses Sun to put heat on IBM, HP
Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison boasted that the acquisition of business computer equipment firm Sun Microsystems had helped turn up the heat on rivals IBM and Hewlett-Packard.
Oct 03, 2011 |
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Russia's Yandex invests $15M in US search underdog
Blekko, a Silicon Valley startup trying to build a spam-free search engine, is getting some love from Russia.
Sep 29, 2011 |
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Behind the scenes at hip and hard-charging YouTube, Google
Clearly, this isn't the typical American workplace. Just inside the sleek glass doors of YouTube's corporate headquarters is a rock climbing wall - "for Googlers only." Straight ahead, five guys in T-shirts and jeans cluster ...
Sep 28, 2011 |
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'QB3 Startup In A Box' helps UC entrepreneurs launch companies
Biophysicist Adam Abate showed up seven months late to his new faculty position at UCSF with an unusual excuse: he was busy setting up the technology for a new company based on one of the 10 patents he had ...
Sep 26, 2011 |
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Retailers angle for presence in social media's virtual worlds
Best Buy Co. Inc. may be building fewer big-box stores in malls and shopping centers nationwide. But when it comes to the virtual world, the Richfield, Minn.-based consumer electronics giant is looking to grab some digital ...
Sep 26, 2011 |
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'E-gate' adds face recognition to airline security
Silicon Valley-based AOptix on Monday introduced new "e-gates" that recognize faces as well as irises of passengers before opening to let them board flights.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Sep 26, 2011 |
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HP fires second CEO in 2 years; Whitman in charge
(AP) -- Hewlett-Packard has performed another extreme act of corporate remodeling, firing its CEO Leo Apotheker after just 11 months and replacing him with billionaire businesswoman and political aspirant ...
Sep 22, 2011 |
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Mulling Meg Whitman: HP considers CEO shakeup
(AP) -- As trial balloons go, Hewlett-Packard's not-so-secret handwringing -over whether to dump CEO Leo Apotheker and replace him with former eBay CEO Meg Whitman- was a success. Investors like the idea. News that the company's ...
Sep 22, 2011 |
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Google exec rejects charge search results 'cooked'
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt rejected charges that the Internet giant has "cooked" search results to favor its own services during a grilling on Wednesday by a Senate antitrust panel.
Sep 21, 2011 |
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Apple to unveil iPhone 5 on October 4: report
Apple plans to unveil its next generation iPhone next month, technology blog AllThingsD said Wednesday.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 21, 2011 |
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