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Tim Cook: 'Stay Tuned,' We Can Do More With Facebook (AAPL, FB)
"Facebook is a great company," according to Apple CEO Tim Cook. Not exactly the consensus view on Wall Street right now! Cook expressed his admiration for the beleaguered social-networking giant at the D10 conference, which we're coverin...
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Apple CEO: People Hate Their TVs (AAPL)
Apple CEO Tim Cook isn't giving up on the Apple TV yet. Why? Because, as he told conference attendees at the D10 conference, "I would say most people would say this is not an area in their life that they're pleased with." Translation: Pe...
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Why Apple Could Change Its Mind On The iPad Or iPhone (AAPL)
CEO Tim Cook may be setting people up for some changes in Apple's product lineups—changes that may contradict views that Steve Jobs laid out. While Cook shied away from making any product announcements at the D10 conference (which ...
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'When Steve Jobs Died, It Was The Saddest Day Of My Life' (AAPL)
Apple CEO Tim Cook mourned Steve Jobs, his boss and mentor. And the depth of his grief caught him by surprise. "It was one of the saddest days of my life when he passed away," he told AllThingsD's Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg. "Maybe a...
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Tim Cook: We Are Going To Blow You Away In Two Weeks (AAPL)
Apple CEO Tim Cook has disappointed people who expected him to make a product announcement at D10, the high-powered tech conference taking place this week in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. Cook teased the crowd by mentioning "the things I c...
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LIVE: Tim Cook Speaks! (AAPL)
Apple CEO Tim Cook is at the All Things D conference tonight and we're going to live blog it. Click here for the latest, or just refresh your browser. We are not at the conference, so instead we'll be reading through tweets of people tha...
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How To Clean Up Your Messy iPad Home Screen
You can make your iPad home screen less cluttered by organizing your apps and putting them in folders. Watch the video below to find out how you can create folders and clear up your messy iPad home screen. Produced By William Wei And D...
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Salesforce.com Is Buying Facebook-Ad Broker Buddy Media For $800 Million-Plus (CRM, FB)
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff is getting a buddy. Buddy Media, that is—for more than $800 million, Peter Kafka reports at AllThingsD. Buddy Media CEO Michael Lazerow (pictured, right) had raised $54 million at a $500 million valu...
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HOW TO PARTY LIKE MILLIONAIRES FOR FREE: San Francisco Startup Hustlers Show The Way
Even in Silicon Valley, some people are jealous of New York's startup boogie. The cofounders of Tracks.by, a San Francisco startup which helps musicians cultivate online fans, jetted off to New York on a whim last week to drum up busines...
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VERY SMART: Chromebox Is Really Google's First Desktop PC For Businesses (GOOG)
The new Chromebox is Google's first ever kinda-sorta desktop PC. Google today released a vastly revised version of its Chrome operating system with two new devices built by Samsung. One is a new laptop, the Chromebook. But the seco...
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A 27-Year-Old Russian Worth $250 Million Spent The Weekend Throwing Cash Out His Window (FB)
27-year-old Russian entrepreneur Pavel Durov has a few things going for him. He is the CEO of Vkontakte, Russia's largest social network, which has around 120 million users. On his Vkontakte profile, he calls himself single, li...
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How To Lose Your iPhone In A New York Cab And Then Get It Back (AAPL)
Last week I left my iPhone in a cab. I had it back less than 24 hours later. This was lucky, and thanks to several kind and generous people. Still, due to the experience, I can offer some three tips in case you are ever in New York...
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RIM Says Its Going To Have A Loss In Q1, And It Hired Bankers To Explore 'Options' (RIMM)
Research in Motion released a boatload of bad news after the market closed today: It hired JP Morgan and RBC to explore options. It sees an operating loss in Q1. It will be cutting jobs all year long. There is high churn in...
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26 Books You Should Read If You Want To Succeed As An Entrepreneur
We go through hundreds of books each year here at Business Insider's War Room. Many aren't worth a second glance, but there are some every business owner should read. So, we've put together a list of the best books for entrepr...
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CHART OF THE DAY: The Tim Cook Era At Apple (AAPL)
Tim Cook will be speaking at AllThingsD's D10 conference tonight. It will be his first time talking in public as CEO to journalists. In the past Steve Jobs delivered command performances at D Conferences. While Cook isn't as visionary, h...
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Check Out The Creepy Technology Facebook Is Paying ~ $100 Million To Have (AAPL, FB)
Facebook is reportedly purchasing Face.com for $100 million to obtain its photo facial recognition technology and its high-featured camera app called KLIK. KLIK is a mobile camera that operates a lot like Instagram with photo filters and...
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HP's PC Employees Fear For Their Jobs (HPQ)
We've been reporting that HP's Enterprise Services group is a major target for HP's massive layoffs. But an employee just told us that employees are bracing for big cuts in the U.S. PC group (Personal Systems Group), too. "While I'm stil...
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How To Send A Self-Destructing Message
Want to have an email message get destroyed as soon as its read? Try out Burn Note an online message system we first heard about from CNET. The site allows you to send a "self-destructing" message to anyone with an email address. Once th...
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26-Year-Old Who Sold A $70 Million Company Explains How You Can Use Your Inbox Better
In 2010, 24-year-old Nat Turner sold an ad tech company to Google for $70 million. So he knows some things. One of these things, apparently, is how to use email better than the rest of us. He shared some wisdom about it on his personal b...
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Scuttlebutt: Red-Hot Startup Box Is Eyeing Another Funding Round After Raising $81 Million 7 Months Ago
Aaron Levie, CEO of cloud storage provider Box, was in New York last week to meet with bankers. The meeting was described as a "standard meeting with bankers," and is not related to the company's initial public offering. But we're hearin...
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Facebook Is About To Spend $100 Million On One Of Its Largest Acquisitions Ever (FB)
Facebook is working on a big deal to acquire Face.com, according to multiple reports. The estimated buy price is between $80 and $100 million, but TechCrunch's sources peg it at the latter. That would make Face.com one of Facebook's larg...
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How Amazon Could Break Into The Phone Market
This is a news note from Business Insider Intelligence, a new research and analysis service focused on mobile computing and the Internet. Sign up here. Amazon is going to sell prepaid wireless service in Japan, Nikkei reports (via The Ve...
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This Is What The Next iPhone Will Supposedly Look Like (AAPL)
The photo below is supposedly what the next iPhone is going to look like. As you can see, it's a lot like the current iPhone, but just a little bit bigger, a little bit thinner, and it has a different casing. The back of it is an aluminu...
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The Human Race Conquers New Heights And Other Important Anniversaries Today
On May 29, 1953 Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzig Norgay reched the summit on Mount Everest. But that isn't the only notable event that happened... Watch the video to find out. <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553...
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A 'Star' Facebook Sales VP Just Bolted For Pinterest (FB)
Facebook's vice president of online operations, Don Faul, has quit the company for a job at Pinterest, a Pinterest PR rep confirms. Faul was one of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's first hires. He quickly became one of her "stars,"&n...
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The Most Successful VC Firm In The Last 5 Years Lays It All Out For Startups
Andy Weissman, a partner at Union Square Ventures, laid out his firm's investment thesis this morning. USV has invested in grand slams like Zynga and Twitter. It is also an investor in Tumblr, Etsy and Foursquare. Weissman's colleague Br...
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Here's Why Facebook Will Fail Miserably Building A Smartphone (FB)
This weekend the NY Times cited sources that Facebook is out looking to staff up a hardware development team to build a smartphone. So let’s get this straight: in 2010, two years ago, and 2 iPhones ago, Facebo...
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All Kidding Aside, A Facebook Printer From HP Would Be A Great Idea (HPQ, FB)
Web guru Anil Dash had some fun on Twitter this morning by suggesting that Facebook make a printer. He was joking. But actually, a Facebook printer is a great idea—a far better idea than making a phone. And there's an obvious compa...
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Cambridge Scientist Defends Claim That There Are Back Doors In US Military Chips
A powerful new report by Cambridge scientist Sergei Skorobogatov hit the Internet over the weekend confirming Chinese computer chips used in U.S. military systems have hidden "back doors" that can disable everything from American fi...
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Amazon Instant Video Has Arrived On The Xbox 360 (AMZN, MSFT)
Amazon's Instant Video service is now available as an app for the Xbox 360. Amazon says it currently offers 17,000 titles, from Downton Abbey to Forrest Gump, and now they're available via Xbox. Using the Kinect to navigate through the a...
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The Top 13 Free Android Apps You Have To Install (GOOG)
Today is the international launch of Samsung's highly anticipated Galaxy S III and there are many other Android phone releases on the horizon. We know Android fans are stoked for these and thought it was relevant to put together a list o...
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6 iPad Accessories I Use Every Day (And You Should Too) (AAPL)
The iPad has a lot of functionality built into it, but these are the accessories I use every day to help make it even more indispensable. From the case to the keyboard, these are the extras that have done right by me for as long as I've ...
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Why Do Some People Hate Jews?
Citizens in Britain were appalled recently when a religious-studies exam featured the question, "why do some people hate Jews?" The question was immediately blasted as inappropriate and quickly withdrawn. But it's an interesting and imp...
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Microsoft Is Changing Its Terms Of Service, Adding Sneaky Language That Stops You From Suing It (MSFT)
Microsoft is stealing a page from the telecom carriers and forbidding you to join a class-action lawsuit against it. You know that screen with all the legal gobbledygook language that pops up whenever you first launch the software? You a...
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The Highest Paying Jobs At Google [RANKED] (GOOG)
Google loves its engineers. So it's not much of a surprise that Google's software engineers are the best-paid employees at the company. But there are a bunch of other roles at Google – and a lot of them have salaries that are compe...
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The Truth About Those Brutal Descriptions Of Working Conditions At Square
Over on Q&A site Quora, several former Square employees have posted harsh descriptions of the working conditions at the booming mobile payments company founded and run by Jack Dorsey. One post concludes: "Many of the employees I...
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Here's Why The Facebook Phone Is A Terrible Idea (FB)
Facebook is hiring a bunch of software and hardware engineers as it preps to build the so-called Facebook Phone. If Facebook goes through with its plans to have its own physical phone and operating system, then investors should run away ...
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How Newlywed Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg And Priscilla Chan Spend Their Honeymoon
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan spent their honeymoon abroad in Rome, Italy. They flew there in a private jet and stayed at a five star hotel, Portrait Suites, near the Spanish Steps. It's owned by Salvatore Ferragamo; rooms ...
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Andreessen Horowitz: New York Startups Are Less Likely To Succeed
This ought to get people talking. In a New York Times story on the New York City tech scene, Andreessen Horowitz partner John O'Farrell revealed his real opinion about New York-based startups: ...the concept of New York as a real rival t...
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THE GOOGLE INVESTOR: Here's How Google Can Beat Facebook (GOOG)
The Google Investor is a daily report from SAI. Sign up here to receive it by email GOOG Up With Markets Markets are up after the long weekend but these next four days are going to be huge. Shares of GOOG are up with tech. Investors co...
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PHOTOS: Facebook's In-House Band Was Partying With Face.com, The Company It's Rumored To Be Buying (FB)
Facebook is reportedly in talks to buy Face.com, a facial recognition technology provider. It was already rumored that Face.com powers Facebook's face recognition technology. Well, in January, a bunch of Facebook employees played a ...
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A New Leaked iPhone Case Suggests The New iPhone Will Be Two-Toned (AAPL)
iPhone repair experts iFixYouri got a new part in stock, and it looks to be the front and back casing for the new iPhone. The guys at iFixYouri gave exclusive access to the pieces to 9 to 5 Mac. The dock connector at the bottom is much s...
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Here's The Real Reason GM Pulled $10 Million In Ads From Facebook (FB, GM)
General Motors pulled the entirety of its $10 million ad budget from Facebook after the carmaker asked if it could run page takeover ads—the large, intrusive kind of ads you often see on media sites—and the social network sai...
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LEAKED: Here's What Apple's New 3D Map Feature Will Look Like (AAPL)
Apple is getting ready to release a new 3D mapping option for its mobile devices and there are finally pictures to prove it. Boy Genius Report has scored some exclusive photos of the 3D map feature in action. As you can see in the photo ...
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THE MICROSOFT INVESTOR: Congratulations! Windows Phone On The Map For Mobile Web Traffic (MSFT)
The Microsoft Investor is a daily report from SAI. Sign up here to receive it by email. MSFT Rising With Tech Markets are up after the long weekend but these next four days are going to be huge. Shares of MSFT are on the r...
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DEAR JOURNALISM STUDENTS: Don't Mean To Intrude, But Your Professor Doesn't Get It
We had a good laugh in the (virtual) newsroom this weekend when folks started passing around this letter-to-students from a journalism professor at the University of Tampa. The professor, who describes himself as a "college journalism sc...
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Get Early Access To Pipe, The Facebook File-Sharing App We Love
The founders of Pipe, an app we think is the most useful Facebook app of all time, is giving BI readers access to try the service first. Click here to head to the Pipe website and sign up> The first 5,000 people to sign up will be sen...
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This iPad Prototype Sold For More Than $10,000 On eBay (AAPL, EBAY)
Last night an original iPad prototype sold on eBay for $10,200, reports MacRumors. The device offers a look at the direction Apple was originally thinking of going with its tablet. Most notably, the prototype has two dock connectors -- o...
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Weibo Is Introducing New Rules That Could See Users Permanently Banned For Talking Politics
BEIJING (AP) — A popular Chinese microblogging site is introducing new rules that could see users banned for posting about sensitive political topics. Sina Weibo's new regulations took effect Monday and would suspend a user for two...
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RBC: Here Are Four Super Obvious Reasons Apple's Stock Will Go To $700 In The Next 12 Months (AAPL)
Apple analysts are in a funny position right now. The company doesn't hasn't announced much in the last few months. The product roadmap is pretty well drawn out. It's about to deliver one of its weaker earnings quarters. And the st...
