Top Items:
Ben Rosen / THROUGH ROSEN-COLORED GLASSES:
MEMORIES OF STEVE — Steve: Always Value Conscious — One frigid winter day in the late 1970s, I ran into Steve at some meeting in midtown Manhattan, a time and event now long forgotten. What isn't forgotten is that when the meeting ended and we went outside into the freezing weather …
Discussion:
TUAW, @pkedrosky and Shiny Objects
RELATED:
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Steve's Final “One More Thing...” — Steve Jobs was the ultimate showman. As such, it should be no surprise that he realized the power of following up a great performance with an encore. But unlike many musicians who treat encores as a given add-on for each show, Jobs seemed to recognize …
Discussion:
I4U News, Geekosystem and Washington Post
Bianca Bosker / The Huffington Post:
The Steve Jobs Reading List: The Books And Artists That Made The Man — “I like living at the intersection of the humanities and technology,” Steve Jobs said once. LSD, Bauhaus and Zen Buddhism shaped Apple's pioneering products as much as anything that took place on the assembly lines.
Discussion:
TechCrunch, @alexia, Quora, Business Insider and 9to5Mac
Bloomberg:
Apple's Cook Won Jobs's Trust Early: Book — Jobs initially oversaw supply chain after he returned to Apple in 1997 following a 12-year hiatus. By turning that responsibility over to Cook, Jobs was able to focus on product vision and broader strategy, instead of the nitty-gritty of manufacturing …
Discussion:
CNET News, The Next Web and AppleInsider
Bits:
Steve Jobs Biography: A Scorecard of Put-Downs
Discussion:
Scripting News, Business Insider, Washington Post, GeekWire, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, WinRumors, Seattle Times, CNET News and Softpedia News
Janet Maslin / New York Times:
Books of The Times: ‘Steve Jobs’ by Walter Isaacson - Review
Discussion:
Mercury News, Examiner, Electronista, HipMojo.com, App Advice, Bloomberg, Boing Boing, L.A. Times Tech Blog, ABCNEWS, Fast Company, GMSV and VentureBeat, more at Mediagazer »
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Google, Private-Equity Firms Mull Bid For Yahoo — Google Inc. has talked to at least two private-equity firms about potentially helping them finance a deal to buy Yahoo Inc.'s core business, according to a person familiar with the matter. — Google and prospective partners …
Discussion:
Yahoo! News, The Next Web, CNET News, Reuters, VentureBeat, Gawker, @dannysullivan, Electronista, Business Insider, Bloomberg, Seattle Times, The Domains and Deadline.com
RELATED:
Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
Check Out How Private Equity Is Using The Wall Street Journal To Try To Drive Yahoo's Price Down — A consortium of folks interested in buying Yahoo is keeping the public apprised of its plans, which now include using Microsoft's gigantic cash hoard to help fund the purchase price.
Stephen Grocer / Deal Journal:
Microsoft Firming Up Plan to Bankroll Possible Yahoo Deal
Discussion:
@jeffjarvis, Neowin.net and LiveSide.net
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Puts A Price On Privacy — Earlier this week, Google made a significant change purportedly to better protect the search privacy of users. In reality, it specifically — and deliberately — left a gaping hole open to benefit its bottom line. If you pay-to-play, Google will share its search data with you.
Discussion:
parislemon, @ericgoldman and SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog
Michael Wolff / Wired:
How Russian Tycoon Yuri Milner Bought His Way Into Silicon Valley — This is my first trip to Moscow, and Yuri Milner, the world's most successful investor in social media, is taking me to his parents' apartment, which he bills as a typical middle-class Moscow dwelling. It's drab Soviet brick outside.
Sandra Hernandez / China Digital Times:
The “Occupy” Series: Sina Weibo's New List of Banned Search Terms — As the Occupy Wall Street movement goes global, China's call for calm observation and reflection may have been followed by another round of censorship in cyberspace. A long list of banned keywords on Sina Weibo's search function …
Discussion:
Boing Boing
Max Eddy / Geekosystem:
Study Uses iPhone Accelerometers to “Read” Nearby Keystrokes — A team of researchers from Georgia Tech's School of Computer Science has announced that they've found a way to capture keyboard information through the accelerometer of a nearby iPhone. According to their findings, the technique was accurate 80% of the time.
Discussion:
innovations-report, Wired Science, Popular Science, PC World and The Not-So Private Parts
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Venture Firms Put $8.4B In U.S. Companies In Q3 Of 2011; Up 29 Percent — According to the latest Dow Jones VentureSource report, venture funding in U.S. companies was on the rise in Q3 2011. Investors put $8.4 billion into 765 deals for U.S.-based venture companies during the third quarter of 2011 …
Discussion:
Business Insider, bizjournals, TechFlash and Dow Jones
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
New printed chip could spark cheaper sensor networks — Thin Film Electronics ASA, a maker of disposable memory used in toys, has developed a way to add computing to its circuits through a partnership with Xerox PARC. This means it can offer thin, disposable tracking tags for a few cents apiece …
Discussion:
EE Times, Electronista and The Register
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Steve Jobs Was Willing To ‘Rip Off’ Everyone Else... But Was Pissed About Android Copying iPhone? — There's plenty of talk making the rounds about Steve Jobs' comments about Android in the authorized biography that's coming out next week. In it, Jobs apparently makes it clear …
Discussion:
AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, iClarified, TechSpot and CNET News
RELATED:
