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During an event to introduce the first living organ donor registry in the country today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs told a crowd he "almost died" waiting for his own transplant in 2009. According to The Mercury News, Steve told California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger that 21,000 Californians are waiting... (original story)
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Productivity is plummeting this week. Everybody (well, 3 million people) are watching March Madness instead of doing work, according to CBS Sports and the NCAA's March Madness stats for CBSSports.com. Read the rest of this story »See Also:CBS Scores $37 Million In Online Ad Sales For Mar... (original story)
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Remember Google Wave? Perhaps one of the most overhyped products in years, Google's email-service-from-the-future is still not gaining a following. Despite a huge spike when beta invites became available, Google Wave is still toiling in obscurity, according to this chart from Hitwise. As we noted la... (original story)
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Milberg Lawyers Leave Jail, Hit Links, Slopes; Reflect on Life (Source) Consumers Buy More Efficient Refrigerators, but Keep the Old Ones Humming (Source) Will reclusive mathematician accept $1 million prize? (Source) Niall Ferguson interviewed by Consuelo Mack (Source) Roger Eber... (original story)
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Benjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music, and helping us all realize our untapped love for it — and by extension, our untapped love for all new possibilities, new experiences, new connections. (original story)
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During 2005 to 2008, YouTube execs said a lot of dumb and nasty things to each other in emails and instant messages. Thanks to Viacom's lawsuit against YouTube-parent company Google -- and the court's decision to release a "statement of undisputed facts" -- you get to read it all! Read the res... (original story)
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After news broke this week that that Yahoo's ad boss Joanne Bradford was quiting, EVP Hilary Schneider quickly emailed employees to say that she'd hold down the fort in the interim, a spokesperson tells us. See Also: Yahoos Want Seth Dallaire As The Next Sales BossJoin the conversation about this st... (original story)
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Engadget's Joshua Topolsky pens a lengthy article on what has gone so terribly wrong at Palm over the last year. His solutions aren't perfect, but it's worth reading. —Ed. Oh Palm. Just a little over a year ago your future seemed so bright, so renewed. You walked away from CES 2009 reborn, he... (original story)
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From GigaOm: The first time you walk into an Apple Store and pick up an iPad, you’ll understand the hype: Apple has managed to create a beautiful, thoughtfully designed, compelling product in a space where mediocrity was, until now, status quo. But odds are you probably won’t buy one &md... (original story)
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Yahoo chief technologist Sam Pullara is quitting to become entrepreneur-in-residence at at Benchmark Capital, TechCrunch reports. Sam follows EVP Ash Patel and sales boss SVP Joanne Bradford out the door. Read the rest of this story »See Also:AOL Gave CTO Ted Cahall A $354,000 Retention Bonus ... (original story)