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Missed Opportunity: Apple’s Third Co-Founder; Ron Wayne Sells share for $800
Ron Wayne sold his 10 percent stake in Apple for $800 just days after he helped found it. It’s now worth $22 billion.
Apple 1 Computer Sells For $387,750
A rare Apple 1 computer — among the first ever produced by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak’s one-time tech startup — has sold at auction for nearly $400,000.
The piece of computing history, hand-built in the garage of Jobs’ parents way back in 1976, went for $387,750 in an online-only Christie’s auction. The device was reportedly sold by a retired school psychologist from California, and bought by an Italian collectors’ club.
Jobs Official Trailer (feat. Ashton Kutcher)
Checkout movie trailer for biopic of the founder of Apple computers, Steve Jobs.
Apple 1 from 1976 signed by Wozniak sells for $650,000
What’s thought to be one of the last remaining original Apple computers, made in a family garage in California, has sold for a record price at auction in Germany.
The machine was built by the company’s founders, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak and only six models in working condition are known to exist.
Throwback Video of the Day: Steve Jobs
When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money.
That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact, and that is – everything around you that you call life, was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.
The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will, you know if you push in, something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it. That’s maybe the most important thing. It’s to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you’re just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.
I think that’s very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you’ll want to change life and make it better, cause it’s kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.
The quote is from PBS’ “One Last Thing” documentary, which aired on TV in 2011.
Apple’s New Spaceship Campus Will Cost $5 Billion To Build
Bloomberg Businessweek reports hearing from five sources close to the project that the budget for the new Apple campus has surged from $3 billion when it was first proposed in 2011 to $5 billion now. That works out to be about $1,500 per square foot, according to Businessweek.
source: Bloomberg
Steve Jobs’ Yacht Venus unveiled in Aalsmeer, The Netherlands
Venus is the ultra-luxe yacht that Steve Jobs had been designing up until the time of his death, and the massive vessel recently made its first appearance in Aalsmeer, Netherlands.
The ship is somewhere between 230 to 260 feet long, made entirely of aluminum, and features seven 27-inch iMacs in the wheelhouse.
Apple Awarded $1.049 Billion In Damages As Jury Finds Samsung Infringed On Design And Software Patents
Samsung vs. Apple
Apple won more than $1 billion in a massive US court victory over Samsung on Friday, in one of the biggest patent cases in decades.
A jury in San Jose, California awarded $1.049 billion to the US tech giant, according to reports from the courtroom.
How the jury came down on both companies. Samsung devices: the Captivate, Continuum, Droid Charge, Epic 4G, Fascinate, Galaxy Ace, Galaxy Prevail, Galaxy S, Exhibit, Infuse 4G, Mesmerize, Nexus S 4G, Gem, Galaxy Tab, Galaxy Tab 10.1
- The jury found no infringement by Apple on any of Samsung’s utility patents.
- The jury found that Samsung infringed on patents for ’381 “bounce back” scrolling functionality on all devices.
- On the ’915 patent, relating to one finger to scroll, two to pinch and zoom navigation, all but three Samsung devices (Ace, Intercept and Replenish) infringed.
- For Apple’s ’163 patent (tap to zoom) all Samsung devices except Captivate, Indulge, Intercept, Nexus S 4G, Transform and Vibrant infringed.
Ashton Kutcher Set To Play Steve Jobs in upcoming Film
Less than a year after his death, the life of technology guru and Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs will be honored in an upcoming independent biopic entitled “Jobs” starring Ashton Kutcher.
The TV and movie actor, who bears a striking resemblance to a young Jobs, is slated to begin filming the movie in May during his hiatus from “Two and a Half Men.” The plan is to begin production before a rival film, based on writer Walter Isaacson’s lauded Jobs biography, gets off the ground. Jobs died on October 5, 2011.
“Jobs” will be directed by Joshua Michael Stern (“Swing Vote”) and will chronicle Jobs’ rise from a Northern California hippie upbringing to the co-founding of Apple, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
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Apple Got Lots of Cash [infographic]
What would you do with $97 billion in cash? While we may never know, Apple is currently pondering that question. This graphic explores some unique comparisons to put the world’s most valuable public company into perspective. Perhaps more money doesn’t necessarily mean more problems. Enjoy!
Steve Jobs Action Figure coming soon
According to Mashable, Chinese toy company In Icons plans to begin selling Steve Jobs (founder of Apple & Pixar) action figures in February for $99.
For the 12-inch Jobs action figure, In Icons teamed up with Hong Kong-based toy manufacturer Dragon In Dreams, with whom they co-created a popular Barack Obama action figure back in 2008. Would u buy a Steve Jobs Action figure?
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