Published June 20, 2009
in People.
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Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs, 54, had a liver transplant about two months ago, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. There has been lots of speculation about Jobs’ health condition since he first addressed this issue at an Apple event in October. It was obvious that Jobs was seriously ill, given his worsening physical shape at that time.
Jobs is going to return to Apple part-time in late June or early July already, but his future position in the company remains uncertain. It is possible that Apple COO and interim CEO Tim Cook will play a more important leading role and that he will be voted to the company’s board of directors soon.
During Jobs’ time off Cook was able to double Apple’s stock price. Although this can hardly be ascribed to Cook’s transitional role as CEO, some analysts think he would be the right person to lead Apple in the future.
Published March 2, 2008
in People.
The serious power and glam passions of Marissa Mayer, the gorgeously geeky Googler who’s generating a new kind of Silicon Valley notoriety.
A week before Christmas, Marissa Mayer, the most closely watched woman in the most closely watched company in the world, stands in the bedroom of her $5 million, 38th-floor penthouse at the Four Seasons, surrounded by Googlers who work for her. She is not what you expect.
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But whatever else there is to say about Mayer—who is rumored to be worth several hundred million dollars—there’s no doubting her influence at Google. As vice president of search products and user experience, Mayer manages 150 product managers, who direct the efforts of nearly 2,000 software engineers; levels criticism and praise with the same cool gaze; and is an arbiter…
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Craig Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Officer at Microsoft, on Google’s success and its “dependance on Microsoft”:
If we didn’t succeed at the PC, they wouldn’t have a business.
Microsoft didn’t really invent the PC and they aren’t the only company offering an operating system, but it’s always interesting to look at things from a different perspective, isn’t it?
Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the world wide web in 1989, shares my opinion on design versus usability:
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don’t care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
I don’t want web 2.0 sites that look pretty but are terrible to use. Keep your sites simple, with not too many links and content per page. If a commercial website is easy to use, that is the first step towards successfully converting visitors into buyers. Same concept that helped Google become popular so fast.
Seth Godin, marketing guru and author of several books, on the importance of domains for the corporate world:
The internet has taught people what to do when they see a domain. It’s not just an address, it’s the first bit of marketing. (…) If you’re looking to start an online business, consider finding a great domain and build the business around it, not the other way around.
Source: Thinking about domains
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