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90 Seconds on The Verge: Hulu, Xbox One, and a Lego X-Wing
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Yarn. Yoda. Youth. Yolk. Yuks. Yawn. Yowl. Yak. Yeah. Yells. Yacht. Yellow. Yogurt. Yoga. Yammer. Continue reading…...
Steve Jobs' yacht impounded
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It seems that certain paperworky details -- you know, like payment for services rendered -- has rendered the yacht stationary in Holland. [Read more]...
Jack Dorsey Celebrates the Holidays with a Massage by a Model in St. Bart's
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(Photo: WENN.com) When not humblebragging about the fact that he–a millionaire–still takes the bus to work, Square cofounder Jack Dorsey enjoys the holidays the only way a nouveau tech founder truly can: by frolicking around with a model on a yacht in St. Bart’s. British model Lily Cole, known for her...
Steve Jobs' super-yacht impounded
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Steve Jobs' £85m high-tech yacht Venus is impounded at the Port of Amsterdam after designer Philippe Starck claims he is still owed money....
Apple Files for Passbook Icon Trademark, Samsung Loses Apple's Rechargeable Battery Business & the Yacht that Steve Jobs Built Launches
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Three interesting stories caught our eye this morning and our cover graphic spells them out for you. The last entry in this morning's report is a simple observation on Microsoft's Windows 8 with its new Metro user interface that debuted last week. It's not as scary as it was made...
Apple Files for Passbook Icon Trademark, Samsung Loses Apple's Rechargeable Battery Business & the Yacht that Steve Jobs Built Launches
Apple Says It's Not Working on Anything With Philippe Starck
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What is French designer Philippe Starck working on for Apple? An obvious guess for Apple’s new product would be the much-anticipated Apple television. Here’s another: Nothing. Reached for comment, an Apple spokeswoman said the company is not working on a new product with Starck. And while she declined to speculate...
Tumblr's First Employee: I'm Not 'Yacht-And-Helicopters' Rich, But I Have 'The Freedom To Work On Whatever I Want' (YHOO)
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Marco Arment began working on Tumblr with Tumblr CEO and David Karp before Tumblr was a company. He and Karp had been working together as Website-building contractors for other companies, and between projects, Karp suggested they work on a project for themselves. Yesterday, Arment told the story of how Tumblr...
Tumblr's First Employee: I'm Not 'Yacht-And-Helicopters' Rich, But I Have 'The Freedom To Work On Whatever I Want' (YHOO)
AT&T service in the works to let app developers pay for users' data use
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AT&T has been making news all over MWC in the past couple of days. The most recent report from The Wall Street Journal says that Ma Bell is planning a service that will enable app devs and other content providers to pay the carrier for subscriber's data usage. AT&T's head...
Watch: This close-up video of Steve Jobs' super-yacht will give you a serious case of gadget envy
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If you’re up for the ultimate case of ‘gadget’ envy, take a look at this close-up video of Venus, the high-tech yacht designed by the late Steve Jobs, that was shot from the docks in Amsterda by TNW reader Michiel Frackers. The boat was recently set free from its temporary impoundment...
Steve Jobs' Yacht Is Being Held In Amsterdam Over A Bill Dispute (AAPL)
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One of the last major products Steve Jobs worked on wasn't for Apple. It was for himself. He designed a yacht with French designer Philippe Starck. The yacht was built by Dutch company Feadship. It was completed at the end of October. The Jobs family has not been able to...
Bill Gates and Paul Allen: Friendship on the mend?
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The publication of Paul Allen’s book last year reportedly caused a “rift” with his Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates, over Allen’s unvarnished and at times very unflattering portrayal of Gates. But it looks they may have patched things up, in the spirit of the Olympics. At the very least, they’re hanging...
10 Things You Need To Know This Morning (FB, MSFT, GOOG, NOK)
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Did you get what you want for Christmas? We hope so! If not, here's plenty of news: Pop, the Kickstarter project Apple tried to kill, is back on. RIM's stock continues to tank. Google's enterprise boss thinks Google can steal customers away from Microsoft. This is what RIM's next BlackBerry...
Bill Gates talks emotionally about his last visit with Steve Jobs [Video]
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We’ve heard Bill Gates talk about his last, emotional meeting with Steve Jobs before. First in the Walter Isaacson Steve Jobs bio and then again in a video interview with ABC, but last night Gates once again discussed the final meeting in an interview with 60 Minutes (above). Gates...
10 Things You Need To Know This Morning (AAPL, AMZN, FB)
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Good morning. For Sandy-related news, see our main front page. For tech news, continue here: Here's how East Coast Apple Stores are preparing for the storm. Amazon mocked the iPad Mini in a new ad on its homepage. IBM researchers were able to "pattern an array of carbon nanotubes on...
Steve Jobs high-tech yacht unveiled
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Steve Jobs high-tech yacht unveiled a year after his death...
ASmallWorld launches mobile app for invite-only social network
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ASmallWorld, the invitation-only social network founded in 2004, launched an iPhone app Monday that will allow its online membership of about 715,000 people connect and share travel tips on the iPhone. The app’s target audience is an exclusive bunch of folks, the kind who want travel tips and ask questions of...
Steve Jobs' Yacht Impounded in Amsterdam
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A yacht commissioned by the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has been impounded due to a payment dispute with its designer. The yacht, whose design began in 2007 and was seen as a collaboration between Mr. Jobs and Philippe Starck, is called the Venus. The price to build it has...
Larry Ellison to buy Hawaiian island
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Larry Ellison might have a new place to dock his yacht. The billionaire CEO of Oracle has reached an agreement to buy 98 percent of Lanai, one of Hawaii's eight main islands....
iPad-Controlled Superyacht Puts Your RC Boat to Shame
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Why bother with piddly little toy boats when you can remotely steer a 139-foot-long yacht? (Uh, don't answer that.)...
Grand Theft Auto V gets September 17 release date on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3
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Rockstar has teased the game in a number of popular trailers, but the games studio has finally announced that the latest title in its GTA series — Grand Theft Auto V — will launch on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on September 17. The release date will frustrate die-hard fans,...
The sleek lines of Steve Jobs' yacht
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The Venus, a yacht commissioned by the Apple co-founder, appears in the Netherlands. It is said to be, well, minimalist. [Read more]...
Wide Water Rafting
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I’m no yacht freak, but I this is one of the most amazing boats I’ve ever seen: The concept is a “moving island.” It’s name is dimensional: 58×38. That’s in meters. From Why-Yachts.com. Hat tip to Dion Neutra....
Steve Jobs' yacht gives insights into his design process
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Jobs and noted designer Philippe Starck spent five years working out the details of the super yacht Venus. [Read more]...
Super-yacht IT: life as a nautical broadband specialist
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Ed Lasher has a simple way to measure how cool his job is—he just counts how many people have offered to carry his bags on a service call. Lasher is the owner of YachtComputing LLC, a small IT business with a very exclusive niche: installing and maintaining networks and...
Starck confirms 'Apple project' is actually Jobs' yacht
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French designer Philippe Starck has finally confirmed that his initial quotes about a "revolutionary" Apple product that will come out "in eight months" were in fact about his long involvement in designing a yacht for the Jobs family, the Wall Street Journal reports. The yacht, which began life as a...
One Company's Secret To Thriving In A Crumbling Industry
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Boutique visual effects firm Luma invests in hiring the best and brightest, and absolutely refuses to fire them. Even in lean times. Payam Shohadai, the cofounder of visual effects firm Luma Pictures, is hesitant to speak about the company's yacht. Luma doesn't even have it anymore, he hastens to...
LaCie's CES 2013 lineup includes 5big 5-bay Thunderbolt and NAS Drives as well a 'unique' Philippe Starck designed portable
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LaCie is throwing down two more 5big drive enclosures for CES this week. Starting at $1,199.00, the Thunderbolt version boasts up to 20TB capacity and transfer rates that extend to 785MB/sec. Meanwhile the much less expensive Gig Ethernet NAS version is aimed at small business and starts at just $549....
LaCie's CES 2013 lineup includes 5big 5-bay Thunderbolt and NAS Drives as well a 'unique' Philippe Starck designed portable
The boat that hacked TV: Where better to build innovative new apps than on a yacht?
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TV Hack Day, as the name suggests, follows in the footsteps of the likes of Music Hack Day and Photo Hack Day in giving teams of developers 48 hours to build fresh, innovative digital products. In this case, the event is all about building something new for the TV...
The 14 Lucky Early Employees And 3 Investors Behind The $1.1 Billion Tumblr Deal
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Tumblr was recently acquired by Yahoo for $1.1 billion. Which early employees hit the jackpot with their stock options? We rounded up 14 of the earliest employees at Tumblr. They were the site's first users, template designers, and friends of David Karp's. The first employee was Marco Arment, who went...
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