Steve Jobs

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Why history's most famous scientists are usually a bit weird

Obsessed with work, insensitive, socially detached, and neglectful of family and friends — these may not be the most endearing qualities in a person, but they are just a few of the common characteristics a researcher found when studying some of the world’s most famous and prolific inventors.

Why history's most famous scientists are usually a bit weird
the thinker

Value tech? Then you'll have a tech genius. Art? An art genius.

Value tech? Then you'll have a tech genius. Art? An art genius.
Apple monument in Russia

Russia's Steve Jobs memorial looks set to leave the country

Russia's Steve Jobs memorial looks set to leave the country
Jean-Louis Gassée, a former colleague of Steve Jobs at Apple. Gassée is now a venture capitalist based in Silicon Valley.

For French entrepreneurs, there's no place like home — in Silicon Valley

For French entrepreneurs, there's no place like home — in Silicon Valley

In Japan, banker tries to cash in on compassion, clean energy

In Japan, banker tries to cash in on compassion, clean energy

In Japan, Banking on Compassion and Clean Energy

Japanese banker Tsuyoshi Yoshiwara hardly fits today's caricature of a greedy, soulless banker. Instead, he campaigns against nuclear power, pays himself a modest salary and says compassion should be his company's key virtue.

In Japan, Banking on Compassion and Clean Energy

In the wake of iPhone 5, is Apple's mystique causing it as much trouble as benefit?

Apple made waves with its iPhone 5 unveiling Wednesday — but perhaps not the waves it has at some of its previous launches. Are expectations too high for Apple, or is the company just not delivering like it used to? And, really, does it even matter?

In the wake of iPhone 5, is Apple's mystique causing it as much trouble as benefit?

In Vietnam, people clamor to learn English

Some 37 years after the United States pulled the last of its forces from Vietnam, ending the Vietnam War, the people of Vietnam are clamoring for closer ties to American culture. To do that, though, they need to know English. So in Vietnam, English is king.

In Vietnam, people clamor to learn English
The World

Why Chinese Factory Workers Don't Covet Your iPad

Leslie T. Chang spent two years interviewing workers for her book Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China Chang thinks Westerns who feel guilty about buying the electronics these Chinese workers assemble are missing the point.

Why Chinese Factory Workers Don't Covet Your iPad

Apple announces plan for its cash: give it back to shareholders

In what was a highly anticipated announcement, Apple announced that it would be reducing — or at least stemming the growth — in its cash accounts by doing what most investment experts said they would do: issue a regular dividend and buy back shares. Some of Apple's fans had hoped for a big move, like purchasing a company or unveiling some new product.

Apple announces plan for its cash: give it back to shareholders

Apple in the Post-Jobs World

Apple in the Post-Jobs World

Check out some of these awesome inventions from 2011

Time magazine compiled a list of 50 of the biggest, most consequential inventions of the past year. Siri made the list. So did a malaria vaccine, But others, you'll have to read to believe.

Check out some of these awesome inventions from 2011

Walter Isaacson on the iPod's 10th Anniversary

Walter Isaacson on the iPod's 10th Anniversary

Apple's iPod marks 10th anniversary today

On Nov. 10, 2001, Apple unveiled the iPod, a digital music player that would revolutionize the music industry and Apple. In the intervening 10 years, more than 300 million have been sold.

Apple's iPod marks 10th anniversary today

Steve Jobs book generating massive buzz for author Walter Isaacson

When Steve Jobs was diagnosed with cancer in 2004, he approached Walter Isaacson to write his biography. Isaacson said no, not knowing about the cancer. In 2009, however, he agreed and the book that was released last week is a best-seller.

Steve Jobs book generating massive buzz for author Walter Isaacson