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Some people don't have a sense of humor.
What TV was to John Kennedy, Facebook is to Obama.
Confining a resume to a single page is good advice for anyone.
I feel like there are some careers that do have a higher meaning.
Even in the business department of a magazine, tech was a backwater.
Why can't modern tech companies both grow and turn a profit at the same time?
I often wonder what the world would be like if more companies were like Apple.
Android is the kind of runaway smash hit that techies spend their careers dreaming about.
I think the issues around diversity of all kinds are really a huge problem in the startup world.
Apple is very, very good at almost everything it does, and that includes corporate communications.
I want to get in on how the media business is changing, how people are telling stories in new ways.
My theory is that in the age of the internet, it's what you write, not where you write it, that matters.
In the world according to Apple, content is just a bunch of digital bits, easily copied, nothing special.
Fixing mistakes is one thing. Apple's bigger strength has been its ability to keep improving hit products.
'Silicon Valley' likes being satirized. They've all been waiting for someone to come along and make fun of it.
There are two types of young people - the partiers and the people who wanted a sense of purpose in their life.
There are too many ways that a startup gig can go sideways. If the startup won't agree to hefty severance, pass.
HubSpot is divided into 'neighborhoods,' each named after a section of Boston: North End, South End, Charlestown.
I was drawn to journalism as a young guy because I felt like there was some purpose to it, not always but sometimes.
To be sure, robotics are not the only job killers out there, with outsourcing stealing far more gigs than automation.
Nvidia's CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, is an engineer and a chip designer. He cofounded Nvidia and still runs it like a startup.
You realize that if you're in the media business, technology is fundamentally what's driving the change in that business.
What needs to change is the nature of advertising itself. That business hasn't really evolved since the days of Don Draper.
Google views Facebook as a threat to its business and has been trying to launch a social-networking service to compete with it.
GE rolled out a popular TV ad campaign in 2015 explaining why youthful techies should give the 'digital industrial' giant a second look.
Amid all the job losses of the Great Recession, there is one category of worker that the economic disruption has been good for: nonhumans.
There are people who do things in tech that have the same skill sets that journalists have. They write, they edit, they put out press releases.
Apple is on fire, delivering smash hits across its entire product line. It's hard to think of another company that has ever been on such a roll.
Obama needs Facebook to help him get reelected. Facebook needs Obama to keep them out of trouble with Congress and countless government agencies.
The chance to interact with big shots is drawing scads of aspiring entrepreneurs to Quora, along with venture capitalists and other Valley players.
Facebook's position with rival tech companies boils down to this: if you want access to all the information we've collected, strike a deal with us.
Nobody ever imagined how quickly the Android mobile-phone platform would take off - not even Andy Rubin, the Silicon Valley engineer who created it.
The Kindle app runs on iPads, BlackBerry, and Android devices, so you can read your books wherever you want; with Apple, you're locked into Apple devices.
Fingerprint readers require special hardware, and a lot of people find them creepy and don't want to use them. Smart cards and tokens can be lost or stolen.
Since the beginning of the internet era, it has been pretty widely accepted that when you join an online service, whatever data you put into it belongs to you.
The office-as-playground trend was made famous by Google and has spread like an infection across the tech industry. Work can't just be work; work has to be fun.
There's often a good, honest case to be made that a century-old company has not only a knack for growing and managing a P&L, but also, perhaps, a heart and soul.
What if people could use the Internet to create a new kind of money, one that didn't involve governments and central banks and could be used anonymously, like cash?
We like the John Gruber model - he writes some long stuff that's very thoughtful and analytical, and then other stuff, he just adds a bit of commentary. I like that.
Some people are using landline connections and dial-up modems to call ISPs in other countries and get onto the Internet. Still others are using satellite connections.
The iPod Touch is basically an iPhone with the phone part taken out, which is fine - since making calls is the one thing that the iPhone doesn't actually do very well.
Some law firms now use artificial intelligence software to scan and read mountains of legal documents, work that previously was performed by highly paid human lawyers.
I wouldn't say that I know a lot about 'Silicon Valley'. I live in Boston, for one thing. And I don't live and breathe this stuff the way most of the guys out there do.
The people running Silicon Valley are not making the show because they want to do a satire of Silicon Valley. They are just comedy writers, and they want to make a funny show.
NBC Universal has created a role called 'talent branding specialist' - a marketer whose job is essentially to put the company on the radars of the most sought-after candidates.
To make a vehicle autonomous, you need to gather massive streams of data from loads of sensors and cameras and process that data on the fly so that the car can 'see' what's around it.
In the 2010 holiday quarter, Apple reported $26.7 billion in revenue, up 70 percent from a year before. That means it's nearly as big as IBM, which did $29 billion in the same quarter.
People in startup-land live inside it. They see themselves as really good people even when they're doing something that's very bad. There's a huge disconnect from reality in the tech world.
Since 2011, Groupon has lost $730 million, and Zynga has lost just over $1 billion. Twitter has been in business for 10 years and went public in 2013. Since then, the company has lost $2 billion.
With the iPod, iTunes, iPhone, iPad, and iMac, Apple is the most powerful tech company in the world. It's also the No. 1 music retailer in the U.S. and among the top sellers of online movies, too.