Steve Jobs This interview is part of The Playboy Interview: Moguls , a new ebook anthology that also includes conversations with Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, David Geffen, and more. Buy it today at Amazon . Playboy: We survived 1984, and computers did not take over the world, though some…

An inside look at the real reasons for the once-beloved chain's demise

Google, the world’s largest search company, is formally making its pitch to become a major force in social networking. The product it announced Tuesday is called Google+, and observers might wonder whether it’s simply one more social effort by a company that’s had a lousy track record in that field…