Kanye West has gone his whole career saying and doing whatever he wants. Most recently, Kanye compared himself to Steve Jobs in an incredible interview with The New York Times. He also went on an epic rant at the Art Basel Fa

The late Steve Jobs took center stage Monday in the latest twist in the Apple antitrust trial on ebooks. A federal court attempted to plumb the meaning of a series of unsent emails Jobs addressed to Eddy Cue, an Apple senior vice president assigned w

On the day the U.S. is to close its antitrust case, Apple evokes the memory its late CEO.

Simon & Schuster, the publisher of the Steve Jobs biography, will release a paperback edition of the book on September 10 featuring a new cover photo of Jobs as a young man. It also includes a new afterword. Simon & Schuster reached out to Ka

Apple needs to take an honest look at what it lost when Steve Jobs died, then act accordingly. Click to view a price quote on AAPL. Click to research the Consumer Durables industry.    

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- In last week's Will Apple Ever Release a New Product I buried the lead. The question -- What the hell happened to AppleTV? -- must come to the forefront. It's shocking that few people press Cook on the issue. Steve Jobs had th

When Kanye West called himself the next Steve Jobs — on track to revolutionize "downtown, fashion, culture" and lead a company "worth billions of dollars" —  no one was surprised. The musical superstar has earned a reputation for hav

Steve Jobs had beef with Derek Sivers. In 1998, Sivers founded CD Baby, a successful site still in operation today that offers independent musicians a platform to sell their music. This made him an important enough figure in the music world that Stev

Happy Friday! Now for some news. Apple's Eddy Cue had to talk Steve Jobs into selling books through iTunes. Microsoft finally launched a version of Office for the iPhone. Boxee, the company that makes Web-connected TV boxes, is looking for a buyer.

The U.S. government is suing Apple over its ebook store, accusing the tech giant of colluding with book publishers to make book prices artificially high. In Tim Cook's own words, the charges are "bizarre" and Apple is fighting them. The case centers

One may think Kanye West would want to restrain from speaking publicly for a few hours after his ridiculous New York Times interview Wednesday in which he likened himself to "the Michael Jordan of music" and "the downtown Steve Jobs." But as he state

By Ploutos:The equity of Apple (AAPL) has arguably been the most topical large-cap stock in the world in 2013. The change in leadership given the untimely death of visionary co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs, related uncertainty around the company's prod

E-mail evidence the government introduced on Tuesday could backfire on Thursday.

The prosecution in Apple's e-book price-fixing trial may have gained the upper hand thanks to this bombshell evidence.

While everybody talks about how Kanye West compared himself to Apple founder Steve Jobs, we found the more apt comparison: JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon. Stay...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- In Tuesday's Apple Management Rebelling Against Steve Jobs, I, with some help, made the case: Jay Yarow at Business Insider ... said it best with respect to iOS:Everyone considers Jobs to be a genius who understood design. Now

The old joke among Apple insiders was that the ship leaked from the top.

Rapper Kanye West told Jon Caramanica of the New York Times in an extensive Q&A that he's going to to be the next Steve Jobs and run a billion dollar company. Here's how Kanye phrased his ambitions to the New York Times: 

"I think what Kanye West is going to mean is something similar to what Steve Jobs means," the rapper tells Jon Caramanica of The New York Times.

After listening to Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook and other executives at the company’s developer conference on Monday, it’s clear that Cook is following the Steve Jobs playbook., for better or worse.

The "Add to Reading List" icon has been changed in iOS 7, the new operating system for iPhones and iPads, and 9to5mac is reporting that the updated icon could be a tribute to the late Steve Jobs. Instead of featuring glasses with boxed frames, the ne

Almost two years after Steve Jobs died, the people he left behind at Apple finally allowed themselves yesterday to say what they believe his company is now and will be in the future. They published a manifesto on Apple.com, and now it's going viral.

Steve Jobs wasn't always nice to Apple executives. Now payback time will kill the company. Click to view a price quote on AAPL. Click to research the Consumer Durables industry.    

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- After Appleannounced iTunes Radio at the Worldwide Developers Conference Monday, freaking Nokiaof all companies released a statement effectively referring to Apple as an also-ran. CNBC's Julia Boorstin reprinted it in an artic

Apple revealed an entirely new look for its iPhone and iPad operating system, iOS, yesterday. Called iOS 7, the redesign was the first major re-do under new Apple design boss Jony Ive. It's also the first since the death of Steve Jobs. iOS 7 is suppo

During Apple's presentation of its new software, new iOS leader Craig Federighi made a bunch of jokes about the old look for iOS. When he revealed the new look for the calendar app on the Mac, he said, "No virtual cows were harmed in the making

Steve Jobs's widow, Laurene Powell Jobs, is at Apple's big developer conference today. It's really nice to see for those of who miss what her husband brought to the industry. Here she is talking to famous early stage startup investor Ron Conway (on t

Advertising legend Lee Clow worked with tech legend Steve Jobs for 30 years to create some of the most iconic commercials in advertising history. From the iPod shadow silhouettes to the "Think Different" slogan, Jobs and Clow collaborated on simple y

The big news of the night is a bombshell Washington Post report that details how the U.S. government have been able to compel nine leading American Internet companies into providing data in a secret program. The companies involved are Microsoft, Yaho

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Watch this video from Bloomberg and then, if you are as big a fan of Apple(and Steve Jobs) as I am, tell me you're not nauseous.Of course, the rumor that Apple will introduce an iPhone trade-in program might not be true, but i

Et tu, Brut?HISTORY is littered with powerful people undone by hubris. Julius Caesar should have ignored the cheers of the Roman crowd and paid heed to the soothsayer. The late Steve Jobs overplayed his hand at Apple as a young man and was kicked out

Remarks made after the iPad introduction are now evidence in the Apple antitrust trial.

Apple now finds itself being challenged in China, the country where most of its devices are assembled, by a billionaire named Lei Jun who is positioning himself as an acolyte of Steve Jobs. He isn't doing so without any justification, however. Accor

As Apple looks more and more like the 'copycat' Steve Jobs accused other companies of being, Rocco Pendola says he's losing hope. Click to view a price quote on AAPL. Click to research the Consumer Durables industry.    

Led by Lei Jun, Xiaomi sold $2 billion in handsets in China last year, and he has carefully cultivated an image in the Steve Jobs mold.    

Apple will repurpose iAd, its mobile ad serving system, to support its new streaming music service, which some are calling iRadio. The new service will compete with Pandora, which has vastly outpaced Apple in the mobile ad business. The movie is a hu

Tim Cook discussed in more detail than usual what it was like when he decided to leave Compaq for Apple in the late nineties. In the past, he's said he talked to Steve Jobs and then five minutes later he was ready to jump to Apple. Speaking to a grou

Tablets have killed the netbook market and are fast transforming the traditional PC. Apple's iPad gets most of the credit for that, but the tablet computer was not Steve Jobs' idea. Tablets actually began decades before the iPad was launched in 2010.

Is Elon Musk the next Steve Jobs? Maybe. Maybe not. But Rocco Pendola doesn't think he cares. Click to view a price quote on TSLA. Click to research the Automotive industry.    

We just posted an old photo of Bill Gates with the first Microsoft tablet. It reminds us of one of the great quotes in Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography. One of the people that was building Microsoft's tablet was friendly with Jobs' wife, Lauren

Apple's iPad is a revolutionary product that is cratering the PC industry. But it wasn't Steve Jobs' idea. A full decade before Jobs launched the iPad in 2010, Bill Gates launched Microsoft's touch input tablet computer. Here it is: Two years later,

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- In "The unbearable lightness of what Tim Cook says," Fortune's Adam Lashinsky nicely summarizes what makes many of us uneasy about Apple : It is a strange sight to see the CEO of Apple, a company known for its brilliance and v

We don't need to know exactly what's coming from Apple, we just need to know that something is actually coming. Click to view a price quote on AAPL. Click to research the Consumer Durables industry.    

iTunes fills on-demand gaps for networks.

Apple has made a number of small mistakes over the past few years that, combined with some adverse market trends and the death of Steve Jobs, have led to Apple's stock getting clobbered. We've described many of these factors in detail: A gradual los

Thank you Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg for making Schadenfreude convenient. It's as if we are enjoying the spectacle so much that we haven't noticed the cameras are now pointed at us. Who is laughing now?

You might not think these two have any similarities, but turns out they do.What do Bernie Madoff and Steve Jobs have in common? More than you think.Common GroundSteve Jobs was a legendarily persuasive marketer, known for the "reality-distortion field

One of the biggest knocks on Apple since Steve Jobs died is that the company is out of world-changing innovative ideas.  It's been over three years since the iPad, and Apple has yet to release its next mind-melting product.  This is a prett

Apple CEO Tim Cook was the headliner at the Wall Street Journal's AllThingsD conference Tuesday night. A few topics he declined to discuss: His personality, former executives who weren't in the room, and -- of course -- Apple's future plans.

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- In 2007, as Apple was preparing to reveal the iPhone it had been working on in secret for years to the world, Steve Jobs boasted that they had "patented the hell out of it."Two years ago, we seemed to be at the height of a fer