What HP’s Meg Whitman Appears to Have Learned From Steve Jobs

HP has a very large portfolio of products. CEO Meg Whitman is signaling that she’d like to take a page from the Steve Jobs playbook, circa 1998, and simplify it.
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eBay Predicts Mobile Commerce Will Grow 60 Percent in 2012

EBay’s John Donahoe has drawn his mobile prediction line in the sand for 2012, and it is pretty jaw-dropping.
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Microsoft Office on iPad

Walt answers readers’ questions about technology, including opening Office files on the iPad.

Meet Billy, the Bison Mark Zuckerberg Shot and Hung On Sheryl Sandberg’s Wall

What’s worse than getting an unsolicited a poke on Facebook? Getting shot, killed, eaten and having your head mounted on a wall by its famous founder, that’s what!
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Benioff: Larry Canceled Me Because I Was Mean to Him on Facebook

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff says his spat with Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is really over a mean Facebook post.
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Alibaba’s Jack Ma at Stanford: “We Are Very Interested” in Buying the “Whole” of Yahoo

In answer to a direct question about whether his company was going to buy Yahoo at a forum at Stanford University in Silicon Valley this afternoon, Alibaba Chairman and CEO Jack Ma said: “We are very interested” in buying all of it.
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Steve Ballmer’s Dr. Hyde and Mr. Jekyll

Whenever I know Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is going to speak at a major public event, I get two feelings at once: Excited anticipation that the chances are high that he’ll say something controversial and dread that the chances are high he will say something, well, controversial.
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Apple Brings iWork Apps to iPhone and iPod Touch

Already available for the iPad, Apple is bringing Pages, Keynote and Numbers to the iPhone and iPod Touch. The apps sell for $9.99 apiece and are free for those who have already purchased the iPad versions.
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France Brings in Tout Le Web Before the G8 Summit

Bonjour! Tout le Web heads for Paris tomorrow for a big Internet confab ahead of the annual G8 summit. Can its organizer, French President Nicholas Sarkozy, sell Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg on his idea that we all need a “civilized Internet”?
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The GDC Hangover: From Nintendo's Rants to Taco Trucks & More (Plus Photos)

For many attendees, surely the parties at this year’s Game Developer Conference were the highlight of the show. But in case your boss asks you for the highlights, here’s a cheat sheet on what you may have missed, or what you can’t remember.