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9:35 PM ET, October 24, 2011

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Fortune:
When Steve Met Bill: ‘It was a kind of weird seduction visit’  —  Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were the ultimate frenemies.  Read about the roots of their relationship in this exclusive excerpt from Walter Isaacson's new book, Steve Jobs, which hits bookstores today.  —  1985: The young and the restless.
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Matt Lynley / Business Insider:
Steve Jobs Would Annoy Jony Ive By Taking Credit For His Design Work  —  Jonathan “Jony” Ive, Apple's design maestro, was regularly frustrated with his good friend, and boss, Steve Jobs taking all the credit for Apple product's design.  —  “I pay maniacal attention to where an idea comes from …
Steve Zeitchik / 24 Frames:
Will Aaron Sorkin take on Steve Jobs?
Discussion: @sarahcuda
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0 Blog:
Jobs ‘annoyed and depressed’ following iPad announcement, biography reveals
Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:
Apple TV Effort Said to Be Led By ITunes Creator  —  Apple Inc. (AAPL) is turning to the software engineer who built iTunes to help lead its development of a television set, according to three people with knowledge of the project.  —  Jeff Robbin, who helped create the iPod in addition …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Piper Jaffray: Apple is already building prototype TV sets  —  The solution Steve Jobs said he “finally cracked” could be a $6 billion business by 2014  —  Click to enlarge.  Source: www.patentlyapple.com  —  In a note to clients released Monday, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster seizes …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
The Go-Go Growth Days Screech to a Halt at Netflix  —  A first look at Netflix's Q3: Revenue of $822 million and earnings $1.16 a share.  The Street was expecting around $811 million and about $0.94 a share (bear in mind that “consensus” actually varies depending on whom you ask).
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Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
Netflix lost 800,000 U.S. subscribers in third quarter
Felix Salmon:
Netflix and the economics of nonrival goods
Discussion: TomsTechBlog.com and GMSV
Obama for America:
Hi, Tumblr.  —  It's nice to meet you.  —  There are lots of reasons we're excited to be launching the Obama 2012 campaign's new Tumblr today.  But mostly it's because we're looking at this as an opportunity to create something that's not just ours, but yours, too.
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Nick Bilton / Bits:   Obama Campaign Experiments With Tumblr for '12
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Sprint and Apple are working on a ‘nationwide issue’ with iPhone 4S data speeds  —  To say that the iPhone 4S has been well received on Sprint and AT&T is a bit of an understatement, as it set opening day sales and activation records for both carriers.  Unfortunately, iPhone 4S users on Sprint …
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Siri Co-Founder Kittlaus Departs From Apple  —  Dag Kittlaus — the co-founder and CEO of the company that created the Siri voice control feature, which Apple launched to much acclaim recently — has left the company, according to sources.  —  There were several reasons for the departure …
Kunur Patel / AdAge:
Nokia Windows Phone Likely to Miss Holidays in U.S.  —  Struggling Handset Maker Pursues Europe-First Strategy on Windows Phone Launch  —  The leading smartphone manufacturers have already unveiled their holiday wares — Apple's iPhone 4S, Samsung's Galaxy Nexus and Motorola's Droid RAZR.
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Removes The + Search Command  —  Google has quietly removed one of the older search operators, the + search operator.  Now if you try adding a + sign in your query, Google will ignore it.  —  Why did Google remove the old search operator?  Kelly from Google said in a forum thread …
Casey Chan / Gizmodo:
How Much the iPhone Camera Has Improved  —  When the first iPhone came out, the camera was an afterthought, only tossed in to feature match its competitors.  Fast forward four years and it's an entirely different story, Apple has made it a point of emphasis and the camera in the iPhone 4S sh-sh-sh-shines.
Reuters:
Zynga's IPO due week before Thanksgiving: sources  —  (Reuters) - Zynga Inc is currently planning to price its initial public offering and have its shares begin trading the week before the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday on November 24, two sources briefed on the offering said on Monday.
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Exclusive: Aneel Bhusri's Workday Raises $85 Million at a Whopping $2 Billion Valuation  —  It's beginning to look like this whole enterprise software-in-the-cloud thing might just go somewhere.  For the latest evidence, look no further than Workday, the fast-growing provider of human resources software as a service.
Edgar Cervantes / Android and Me:
Motorola: Ice Cream Sandwich devices coming 6 weeks after release (Update: devices confirmed)  —  Whoa there, Motorola!  Getting aggressive, aren't we?  While other manufacturers are “looking into” device updates to Ice Cream Sandwich, these guys are not playing it safe.  The company has decided to give us time frames.
Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal:
Google Links Music Store, Social Networking  —  Google Inc. is building a music-download store that would work closely with its Google Plus social network and could launch it within the next two weeks, according to people familiar with the matter.  —  Users of Google Music …
Jeff Roberts / paidContent:
Groupon Sues Google Offers Employees - Report  —  After Groupon spurned its $6 billion offer last year, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) decided to launch a deal-of-the-day site of its very own.  It looks like the hard feelings will continue—Groupon has filed a lawsuit against two former employees …
Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:
Senior Media Liaison Karen Wickre leaves Google for Twitter  —  Karen Wickre, the Senior Media Liaison at Google for the last nine years has left Google and joined Twitter.  —  Our sources say Wickre held a very senior PR position at Google for a long time, and was the go between for project managers and the media.
Discussion: @kvox
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Google eyeing fiber network for Europe  —  A Google executive said the search giant is pondering a fiber network in Europe, perhaps based on its experience building out a gigabit fiber to the home network in the U.S. Google's dedication to better infrastructure is essential to the success …
Georgina Prodhan / Reuters:
China Mobile says has 10 million iPhone users  —  China Mobile , the world's largest mobile carrier by subscribers, has 10 million iPhone users even though it does not yet have an agreement with iPhone maker Apple , its chairman told Reuters on Monday.  —  Wang Jianzhou also said Apple …
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
OpenSky Raises $30 Million for Twitter-Inspired Shopping Site  —  The founder and CEO of OpenSky, John Caplan, says the curated shopping site has more in common with Twitter than with eBay or Amazon.  —  On the site, shoppers add — or “follow” — celebrities and experts who share similar interests …
Discussion: Business Insider
9to5Mac:
Spyshots of the new Grand Central Terminal Apple flagship store  —  Update: Training for Apple Store Grand Central employees began today at a hotel in Times Square,will end Nov 11, ahead of end of Nov opening.  (thanks @iDannyOcean)  —  In August, we had the opportunity to do a thorough walkthrough …
 
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Tomio Geron / Social Markets:
Pre-IPO Jive Software To List On Nasdaq As JIVE; Sequoia, Kleiner Invest $40M More
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Bloomberg:
AT&T Judge Denies Sprint Access to Data U.S. Got From Rival
Iain Thomson / The Register:
Father of Lisp and AI John McCarthy has died
Discussion: TechCrunch
David Goldman / CNN Money:
Google and Microsoft play game of Yahoo chicken
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Amir Efrati / Digits:
Google+ Marketing Plan: Newspaper Ads + Celebs
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John Cook / GeekWire:
Amazon: It's safer to work for us than a department store
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Blogger to Integrate With Google+
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Oracle Buys Cloud-based Customer Service Company RightNow For $1.5 Billion
Vlad Savov / This is my next:
Apple upgrades MacBook Pro line with faster processors, graphics cards, and more storage
Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
Facebook Will Probably Be More Profitable Than Amazon This Year
Netflix, Inc.:
Netflix to Launch Service in the UK and Ireland for Streaming Movies and TV Shows in Early 2012
 

 
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