There have been so many articles posted on Steve Jobs in the past week, I really thought I wasn’t going to add one here on my blog. However, yesterday, John Lilly wrote a great piece on Steve Jobs yes

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Like many of us, I’ve been thinking a lot about Steve Jobs the last few days — thinking about the man and his legacy. I’ve been having some trouble even understanding the way I feel, let alone being a

About Dan Dan Lyons is an author, screenwriter and humorist who has been called “the Mark Twain of Silicon Valley,” and “a Jonathan Swift for our own digital age.” His memoir, Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Startup Bubble , was an instant New York Times best-seller and has been translated into a…

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A previously unreleased, uncut PBS Interview with Steve Jobs from 1990 that went way, way too long: http://t.co/jriNwdg4 (via @dtrinh)

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“Everything at Apple is as much about perception as about reality,” the company’s former C.E.O. John Sculley said to me a few days after his old partner and rival, Steve Jobs, unveiled the alliance he had engineered with Microsoft. Since Sculley was deposed, in 1993, after running Apple for ten…

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died Wednesday after battling cancer and related conditions for seven years. He was 56. Jobs, who reigned as Apple CEO for 14 years, resigned his post in August 2011 and wa

"Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet—basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost. They…

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AllThingsD marks the anniversary of Steve Jobs’s death with Walt Mossberg’s memories of the man, originally published Oct. 5, 2011. That Steve Jobs was a genius, a giant influence on multiple industri

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In general, a non-Hawaii Paul Johnson offense is going to do what a non-Hawaii Paul Johnson offense does. Run the flexbone, hand the ball to about six different players (or have the quarterback run it

Photo illustration by Aurich Lawson On this long Labor Day weekend in the US, we're bringing you a set of opinion pieces from various Ars writers—and we'd love to have you join the conversation in the

IN THE 1939 classic Western “Stagecoach”, a villainous banker with a bag of embezzled cash in his lap frets about the state of the American economy: “Our national debt is something shocking!” he compl

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A litany of scandals in recent years have made the corruption of college sports constant front-page news. We profess outrage each time we learn that yet another student-athlete has been taking money u

Right now consumers are pushing companies — many large, smart, companies — down a death spiral, a race to the bottom. Groupon, LivingSocial and coupon sites are the catalysts that have set this trend

Barbara Stanwyck: “We're both rotten!” Fred MacMurray: “Yeah – only you're a little more rotten.” -“Double Indemnity” (1944) Those lines of dialogue from a classic film noir sum up the state of the tw

Jamie Newberg, RecruitingNation Apr 21, 2011, 03:00 AM ET Jamie Newberg covers recruiting in the Southeast. Email him at jamienewbergbw@yahoo.com. Follow on Twitter Recruiting is far from a science, b

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A ngry and frustrated, American voters went to the polls in November 2010 to “take back” their country. Just as they had done in 2008. And 2006. And repeatedly for decades, whether it was Republicans

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