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Apple moves to take its App Store fight back to the Supreme Court | TechCrunch
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Fire-blocking chemicals promise safer buildings
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The glorious return of Steve Jobs
Posted on“I’m pleased to report to you that Apple’s back on track.” It was May of 1998, and Steve Jobs was about 10 months into his second stint leading the company he’d cofounded more than two decades earlier. (It was also a bit more than a decade after that company forced him out.) Jobs took the…
