(Thanks to Twitter user @TroyJMorris for the Aaron Sorkin “Walk and Talk” tip — hence the video above) For those working every day, and especially in the startup world, it’s not easy to fit exercise into hectic schedules. So here’s something to try next time you set up a one-on-one meeting: ditch the chairs and… Read More…
More than a decade ago, as I was getting up to speed on the Microsoft beat, one of my new contacts handed me a biography called Gates, by journalists Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews. More than anything else I read at the time, the epic biography helped me understand Bill Gates and his company, and what… Read More…
For the second year in a row, Apple will be represented at the State of the Union. One year after Michelle Obama invited Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of the late Steve Jobs, to sit in her box at her husband’s annual address, Apple CEO Tim Cook will join the First Lady for Tuesday’s State of… Read More…
Steve Jobs may have been “cooler” than Bill Gates, and that’s OK. The Microsoft co-founder and chairman made his first-ever appearance on The Colbert Show last night and answered questions about his philanthropy, his days at Microsoft and Jobs. “I was lucky enough to meet Steve Jobs a few times, and people always say ‘what… Read More…
When the name Ashton Kutcher comes up, we might think of That 70s Show, Demi Moore or even Zaarly. Now you can add Steve Jobs to that list. Kutcher is playing Jobs — beard and all— in a new biopic about the Apple founder and we’ve got our first look at his portrayal skills today…. Read More…
It’s that time when journalists take a moment to reflect on the past year. We’re doing that here on GeekWire too, with a series of stories that look back at 2012. Today, we’re listing the 50 most popular stories on GeekWire. As you’ll see in the list below, sometimes it is the offbeat and oddball… Read More…
They trickled in to the Apple Store at Seattle’s University Village one by one this morning, wearing black mock turtlenecks and wire-rimmed glasses. And then it began. The flash mob was organized by the Filter digital agency to mark the one-year anniversary of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ death — with a crowd of a couple… Read More…
Has Steve Wozniak gone Team Microsoft? As the Huffington Post reports, the Apple co-founder said at an Entel technology press conference in Chile that he is impressed by the design of Microsoft’s new products. “I made a joke that Steve Jobs came back reincarnated at Microsoft,” he said, noting that he wants to own a Surface tablet…. Read More…
Mike Daisey’s fall from grace was well documented after This American Life retracted a story about the worker abuses that the playwright claimed he saw at Chinese consumer electronics factories. Daisey — after several days of painful rumblings in which he said, among other things, “What I do is not journalism” — eventually apologized for making stuff up. But… Read More…
Blue Water Productions is rolling out a new comic book line, featuring the of legends of the tech industry. The comic book company is starting with Microsoft’s Bill Gates — noting in a press release that readers can follow the “sultan of software and the master of the modern PC” from his early days “writing basic… Read More…
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