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This is our second excerpt from Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple’s Success by Ken Segall, a close collaborator with Jobs for over a decade. To read the first, on how the iMac was almos

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[ Tim Cook kicked off this year’s D: All Things Digital conference on Tuesday. The Apple CEO was interviewed by conference hosts Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher , in a lively, engaging conversation. He

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Is Facebook forcing the extinction of the ad-driven web? If yes, is that sort of destruction entirely bad? http://t.co/2khSr0nK

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His saga is the entrepreneurial creation myth writ large: Steve Jobs cofounded Apple in his parents’ garage in 1976, was ousted in 1985, returned to rescue it from near bankruptcy in 1997, and by the

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There are hundreds of devices out there right now that can access the full web , as Steve Jobs once put it. These devices come with different capabilities and constraints, things like input style or s

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