4 posts and columns on Michelle Obama

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Steve Jobs’s Widow Will Join First Lady at State of the Union

in News on January 24 at 12:05 pm PT

Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and longtime community and education activist, will be among the symbolically significant handful of people seated with First Lady Michelle Obama during the president’s State of the Union speech tonight. Also in the First Lady’s box, presumably to illustrate the benefits of immigrant entrepreneurs, will be Brazilian-born Mike Krieger, co-founder of Instagram, and Dr. Hiroyuki Fujita, founder and CEO of Quality Electrodynamics in Cleveland, Ohio.

Michelle Obama Sends Her First Tweet

in Social on October 21, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

This week, First Lady Michelle Obama personally pressed the button to send out her first tweet, complete with a hashtag, a URL and her initials.
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Crowdsourcing Platform ChallengePost Raises $4 Million

in Social on August 8, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT

Start-ups that rely on the Internet as a source of free labor are nothing new. But the idea keeps coming back, in different forms, because it seems to work.
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