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Laurene Powell Jobs & family

Laurene Powell Jobs Engages Education Secretary Arne Duncan On School Reform, Immigration Legislation

Recently, the very private Laurene Powell Jobs has become a more vocal figure. Last month, she made her first televised appearance since the death of her husband, Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, pushing for immigration reform in a discussion with NBC’s Brian Williams. That was followed by an interview with Bloomberg Radio to garner exposure for an [...]

SoundCloud Manages Criticism As It Moves To Become The YouTube Of Audio

January was a good month for SoundCloud.

Fresh off the launch of its redesigned site, the audio sharing company had seen registered numbers pass the 30 million mark. Engagement was reaching unprecedented levels, according to CEO and cofounder Alexander Ljung, as more and more artists–among them Destiny’s Child and The Strokes–moved [...]

Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom And Diplo Deliberate Social Media And EDM

Two DJs took the stage on Wednesday afternoon at the first IMS Engage conference in Los Angeles. But unlike the sets out in the California desert at Coachella this past weekend, only one of the DJs actually makes music. The other started a company purchased by Facebook for more than $700 million.

DJ Systromatic, also known as Instagram [...]

Peter Thiel's Breakout Labs Turns More Science Projects Into Businesses

Fresh off its first year of delivering grants to promising scientific research technologies, the Peter Thiel-backed Breakout Labs announced today that it funded two more companies.

The nonprofit Breakout Labs, financed by the billionaire venture capitalist’s Thiel Foundation, has provided grants of up to $350,000 to SkyPhrase, a language [...]

Laurene Powell Jobs Advocates For Immigration Reform In First TV Appearance Since Husband's Death

Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, will make her first televised appearance since her husband’s death in an effort to push Congress to pass the DREAM Act, an immigration reform bill that would give children of undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship.

In an interview with NBC’s Brian Williams that [...]

April Fools' Aftermath? Sergey Brin's Pink Batmobile Tesla

Silicon Valley is no stranger to pranks around April 1, and one of the area’s richest men may have been the butt of one of them.

Google cofounder Sergey Brin was spotted driving a Tesla around LinkedIn headquarters on Thursday afternoon. That would have been somewhat normal if the Tesla Model S wasn’t pink. With Batman wings. And [...]

Tableau Files For IPO As Strong Run For Business Software Companies Continues

Tableau Software is set to hold its initial public offering, according to an S-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission today, continuing a strong period of market debuts for enterprise software companies. The data visualization company is the latest business software firm to test the waters of the public market, following the likes [...]