Tag: Steve Jobs

Does Facebook’s face-plant mean we’ve learned something?

The relatively poor showing of Facebook’s initial public offering of its shares on the NASDAQ exchange shows that, perhaps, finally, the hype around the social networking site may finally be abating. As I post this, Facebook shares have closed around $31 after their third day of...

Taking a bite out of the Apple Jobs myth

For those of us who haven’t consumed copious amounts of Apple-flavoured Kool-Aid, the the posthumous over-the-top comparisons of Steve Jobs to Edison, Einstein, Da Vinci, etc., have been more than a little hard to take. Fortunately, sanity is starting to return to the conversation. Malcolm Gladwell,...