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  1. Apple To Start Making Some Mac Computers in America in 2013

    Thu, 6 Dec 2012

    poor working conditions in the factories of its Foxconn contractor there. Apple's late CEO, Steve Jobs , was quoted by biographer Walter Isaacson as complaining to President Obama that U.S. regulations made it easier to build a factory overseas

  2. Five Things We Miss About Steve Jobs

    Thu, 4 Oct 2012

    Today marks one year since Steve Jobs passed away. Beyond creating iPhone , iMac), Jobs was, well, Steve Jobs . He was one of the most disruptive according to the story he told Walter Isaacson in his biography about how he

  3. Survey finds broad interest in an Apple TV

    Tue, 4 Sep 2012

    announcements expected from Apple this month. Speculation has been high that Apple has a TV in the works since Walter Isaacson 's Steve Jobs biography, released last October, quoted the Apple co-founder as having his sights set on an integrated TV

  4. Consumers likely to feel impact of Apple defeat of Samsung

    Sun, 26 Aug 2012

    to Apple," says Wadhwa. But Apple founder Steve Jobs , who died in October, was intent on hobbling product," Apple co-founder Jobs told biographer Walter Isaacson in the book Steve Jobs . "I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on

  5. More Turn to Colorful, Confessing Self-Written Obituaries

    Fri, 17 Aug 2012

    words and moments." The desire to have a say in one's own legacy is what drove Apple co-founder Steve Jobs to commission author Walter Isaacson to write his biography before dying of pancreatic cancer in 2011. "I wanted my kids to know me

  6. Veep Beat: Romney Campaign Bulking Up VP Team

    Thu, 2 Aug 2012

    GUN CONTROL IN COLORADO: Speaking at a convention at the Aspen Institute , five GOP governors and potential VP contenders, including different determinations,' he said," Condon wrote. "While Isaacson tossed the governors a variety of questions, from education

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  1. Apple claims Samsung copied iPhone tech

    Tue, 31 Jul 2012

    booming cellphone market after Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone to critical Google turned bitter when the late Steve Jobs learned that the search giant co-founder Jobs told biographer Walter Isaacson . "I'm willing to go thermonuclear

  2. Testimony expected in Apple, Samsung patent feud

    Tue, 31 Jul 2012

    relationship with Google turned bitter when the late Steve Jobs learned that the search giant was coming out with product," Apple co-founder Jobs told biographer Walter Isaacson . "I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this

  3. Apple, Samsung take patent feud to court

    Mon, 30 Jul 2012

    relationship with Google turned bitter when the late Steve Jobs learned that the search giant was coming out with product," Apple co-founder Jobs told biographer Walter Isaacson . "I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this

  4. Steve Jobs US Files Provide New Details on Drug Use, Kidnap Worry

    Mon, 11 Jun 2012

    released Pentagon documents indicate that in the 1980's Steve Jobs expressed concern that his daughter might be kidnapped Security clearance in 1988. However, it notes that Walter Isaacson 's biography of Jobs said Pixar required a security

  5. Time Magazine's 2012 Most Influential List

    Wed, 18 Apr 2012

    Mario Monti • Wang Yang • Maria das Graças Silva Foster • Andrew Cuomo • Iftikhar Chaudhry • Mamata Banerjee • Walter Isaacson • Ron Paul • Benjamin Netanyahu • Dilma Rousseff • Erik Martin • Cecile Richards • Angela Merkel • Lionel Messi

  6. US Sues Apple and Major Publishers Over E-Book Price Fixing

    Wed, 11 Apr 2012

    it sold." The lawsuit quotes Apple's late CEO Steve Jobs as saying, "We'll go to [an] agency model want anyway." The quotation originally appeared in Walter Isaacson 's biography of Jobs, which was published in 2011

  7. Steve Jobs' FBI File: Bomb Threat, Drug Use Noted in Background Check

    Thu, 9 Feb 2012

    Steve Jobs introduces the Macbook Air in 2008 Pierre Thomas and Jason Ryan: Steve Jobs , the Apple co-founder who transformed been reported in news stories and Walter Isaacson 's biography, " Steve Jobs ," but the report adds some details

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Videos

  1. Walter Isaacson , Live Monday on 'GMA'

    Fri, 21 Oct 2011

    Steve Jobs trusted one to record his life story now this Monday. He gives his first live T. That wouldn't Steve Jobs take on Good Morning America on ABC.

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    Steve Jobs trusted one -- to record his life story now this Monday. He gives his first live T. That wouldn't Steve Jobs take on Good Morning America on ABC.
  2. 'Steve Jobs' Book: Tale of Two Steves

    Tue, 25 Oct 2011

    you've read Steve Jobs . You'll never told biographer Walter Isaacson jobs actually known as the Steve Jobs reality distortion his influence Isaacson also drew from Here's given Walter Isaacson is book Steve

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    know now that was not entirely true. As He told -- biographer Walter Isaacson jobs actually rejected that surgery for almost a year. To the dismay of his wife and friends He tried herbs and carrot
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  3. Steve Jobs : Unknown Details Revealed in Book

    Mon, 24 Oct 2011

    Steve Jobs and new video overnight from bestselling author Walter Isaacson . The first live interview with Isaacson in just a minute. The with a claim journalist Walter Isaacson Steve Jobs offered a rare glimpse

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    Steve Jobs and new video overnight from his memorial celebration at apple headquarters -- songs from Norah Jones and Coldplay. And speeches from apple colleagues like former vice president Al Gore. This release on the apple web site comes along with the release of the new biography jobs from bestselling author Walter Isaacson . The first live interview with -- Isaacson in just a minute. The first or just a few of the revelations from this biography of -- world changing businessman. In over forty interviews with a claim journalist Walter Isaacson Steve Jobs offered a rare glimpse into the genius that touched so many of us. Today apple is going to reinvent the -- But also a window into jobs is personal turmoil. -- regretted ignoring doctors' advice to have surgery when his cancer was detected I really didn't want them to open up my body. So I tried to see if a few other things would work He told Isaacson . He held off on surgery for months relying on alternative treatments including some He found on the Internet.
  4. Steve Jobs : Carrot Juice for Cancer?

    Sun, 23 Oct 2011

    What is the Steve Jobs reality distortion field it was a from start track but it basically meant that. Steve when He walked into room could you believe

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    What is the Steve Jobs reality distortion field it was a -- from start track but it basically meant that. Steve when He walked into -- room
  5. Steve Jobs' Proudest Achievement

    Mon, 24 Oct 2011

    Walter Isaacson joins us now thanks so Everybody's there even Steve Jobs and this is the fathers tongue and couldn't say Steve Jobs is your son she just looked nothing to do this I mean Steve Jobs a person with intense

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    Walter Isaacson joins us now thanks so much for coming and -- this is a fascinating. Character study and what's also fascinating He sees
  6. Apple's Tim Cook 'Not a Product Person'?

    Sun, 23 Oct 2011

    eighteen you know different people bring different strikes if Tim with the exact this Steve Jobs that would be kind of law I mean. You can't replicate Steve Jobs . But in the DNA of the company that remains a very creative. Company and that team

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    people bring different strikes if Tim -- with the exact -- this Steve Jobs that would be kind of law I mean. You can't replicate Steve Jobs . But in the DNA of the company that remains a very creative. Company and that team of -- plus players that He
  7. Steve Jobs Delayed Life-Saving Surgery

    Fri, 21 Oct 2011

    into the life of Steve Jobs famously private Pulitzer Prize winner Walter Isaacson including a decision world. But when Steve Jobs was diagnosed revelations in the Steve Jobs authorized biography. Walter Isaacson who conducted

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    We are getting surprising new insight into the life of Steve Jobs famously private. He reveal personal secrets and a new book by the Pulitzer Prize winner Walter Isaacson including a decision.
    the best medical treatments the best surgeons in the world. But when Steve Jobs was diagnosed with a deadly pancreatic cancer. He reportedly delayed the surgery that could have saved his life. Calling it too invasive. Instead He tried alternative therapies and later said He regretted that decision. Just one of the stunning revelations in the Steve Jobs authorized biography. Walter Isaacson who conducted more than forty interviews with jobs for the book some of them -- right before his death. Said no subject
    more from the book on Monday's Good Morning America when George interviews Walter Isaacson . In his first live interview very much looking forward to that.
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  1. VIDEO: Walter Isaacson details Steve Jobs' life in new biography.
  2. VIDEO: Walter Isaacson reveals how Apple's founder treated co-workers, presidents.
  3. PHOTO: This book cover image released by Simon & Schuster shows "Steve Jobs," by Walter Isaacson.

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