Steve Jobs was the cause of the deaths of floppy drive, dial-up modem, the FireWire and mouse buttons and the company he founded is capable of killing a few more, including the hard drive, says Tarun Karuturi, a Get Ahead reader in response to our reader invite.
In a somber statement on Wednesday, the Apple board of directors said: "We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today. Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve."
US President Donald Trump and other top officials were evacuated unharmed from the annual dinner of the White House Correspondents' Association after a man armed with multiple weapons fired shots outside the hotel ballroom.
Are the great always good? Few of his associates would use the adjective 'good' for Steve Jobs. The circuitry and the code that runs an individual is more complex than that which runs a computer. The world, feels B S Prakash, would be a duller place if it were not so.
The last big project of the Apple founder.
After a series of suicides at Foxconn, Apple Inc's chief executive Steve Jobs said that Foxconn, the global contract manufacturer that assembles iPhones and iPads in China, "is not a sweatshop."
Steve Jobs' resignation is biggest blow to Apple, which is at the peak of its success.
When the votes for the Reader's Choice CEO of the Year by MarketWatch were counted, Dr Ramesh Pandey of Xechem came first, beating Steve Jobs of Apple and Warren Buffett of Berkshire.
Brown had blocked the honorary knighthood for Jobs in 2009 after the Apple boss snubbed an appearance at the then ruling Labour Party's annual conference, The Daily Telegrap' quoted a former senior Labour MP as saying.
How could we have been so wrong? Nothing but love for these tech moguls, then and now.
Cook revealed only a handful of incremental insights on Apple''s products and strategies.
Ken Segall says marketing campaigns should be simple.
Cook, who met Modi at his hotel, was among the first top CEOs to meet the premier
Karex, the Malaysian company that makes roughly one in five of the world's condoms -- about five billion a year, supplying Durex and Trojan among others -- announced this week that it is raising prices by up to 30 percent. The reason is the Strait of Hormuz.
Using his fingertip as a canvas, 33-year-old Italian art director has come up with an interesting series of portraits of famous personalities -- The Dalai Lama, Steve Jobs and Hitler, to mention a few.
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' cultish following is creepy, but his resemblance to Thomas Edison is uncanny.
Speculation about Apple founder Steve Jobs's health has been rife since the company's Worldwide Developer's conference in June, when he looked unwell. His claim that he had been ill but was now recovering did nothing to settle the speculation; Jobs is a pancreatic cancer survivor and there were those who wondered if the dreaded disease was back.
On Thursday, Steve Jobs resigned as Apple's chief executive officer and named Tim Cook as his successor.
Both sides have now revealed a preference for escalation over strategic defeat, and each new provocation narrows the space for the next pause. The Touska seizure, Iran's refusal to negotiate under blockade, Israel's strikes on Iranian oil infrastructure -- all of these add up to an increasingly untenable situation. This makes the wild card -- Trump and his motormouth -- more consequential than ever, notes Prem Panicker in his must read blog on the Iran War.
Who's behind The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs? The question riveting Silicon Valley as much as the satirical blog itself may be answered this week.
Here's why the world Apple co-founder.
We bring you inspirational excerpts from some of the most powerful and inspiring graduation speeches by the likes of Larry Page, Steve Jobs, Azim Premji and Shah Rukh Khan.
The actor was spotted roaming the lanes of old Delhi with the film crew.
Steve Jobs left behind some impressive works that can easily guide our steps towards some truly incredible technological developments. Here are 10 reasons why we will never forget the man who made technology and design so creative.
A rare Apple-1 computer personally sold by the company's co-founder Steve Jobs nearly 40 years ago has fetched a whopping $365,000 at an auction in New York.
Software major Adobe has hit back at Apple over the latter's refusal to allow its widely used Flash video product to run on smartphone iPhone and tablet computer iPad, says a media report.
'iSteve: The Book Of Jobs will hit bookshops early next year, written by Walter Isaacson, who is rumoured to have been penning the biography since 2009 after interviewing the computer genius, members of his family, colleagues at Apple and competitors.
Technology Innovation: Sword or Plough looks at key moments in recent history, noting how key technological changes at pivotal moments had unimaginable consequences, both positive and negative. It makes for enjoyable and insightful reading.
The cost factor notwithstanding, the products that Jobs brought to this world achieved unmatched fashion value and cult status across the world, including in India.
Find out what Steve Jobs, Tim Cook and Deep Kalra did when they received angry, negative feedback from customers.
Let's acquaint you with a few freaky job descriptions we discovered... And who knows, if curiosity strikes, you might even be tempted to explore one of these careers too.
Apple chief Steve Jobs who is suffering from pancreatic cancer may have just six weeks to live, a United States-based online publication has said.
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Tech workers filed a class action lawsuit against Apple Inc, Google Inc , Intel Inc and Adobe Systems Inc in 2011, alleging they conspired to avoid competing for each other's employees in order to avert a salary war.
What we are watching is something different: A fog manufactured and maintained by the people who started the war, so that the question of why it was started never has to be answered, observes Prem Panicker in his must read blog on the war in the Middle East.
Australia captain Pat Cummins said on Monday he was more likely than not to miss the first Ashes Test in Perth next month and is not absolutely certain of being fit for the second in Brisbane.
'In three years, you will have an AI model that will be smarter than the smartest mathematician or the smartest scientist.'
Steve Jobs had been struggling with health issues for quite some time.
Firing yet another salvo at Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi on Monday claimed that the PM is scripting his own "downfall", as he has "failed" to fulfil promises made to the people.
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