Main Pixar Building now “The Steve Jobs Building”

Main Pixar Building now “The Steve Jobs Building”

Folks at Pixar had been looking for the best way to honor Steve Jobs—a man who’s investment and influence shaped the company and animation—and now they believe they have a fitting tribute. The main building at Pixar Studios is now The Steve Jobs Building.

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Photos And Video Of Steve Jobs’ Yacht ‘Venus’

Photos And Video Of Steve Jobs’ Yacht ‘Venus’

Venus – the yacht that Steve Jobs was working on with French designer Philippe Starck and yacht builders Feadship, before he passed away has been spotted by folks at One More Things at the yacht builders Feadship’s docks in Aalsmeer, Netherlands.

According to Steve Jobs’ biography written by Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs had been working on the design of the yacht since 2009.

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Apple Remembers Steve Jobs With Touching Video Tribute

Apple Remembers Steve Jobs With Touching Video Tribute

Steve Jobs’ passed away on October 5, 2011, one year ago today and Apple has fittingly paid tribute to the company’s founder on his first death anniversary on the company’s homepage.

When you visit Apple’s website, it plays a touching video tribute, which begins with the famous Wayne Gretzky quote “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been” that Steve Jobs loved, followed by quotes from Jobs along with images of him and products he created. The video ends with “Remembering Steve”.

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BMW Designer: Steve Jobs And Apple Influenced Popular Color Of Cars

BMW Designer: Steve Jobs And Apple Influenced Popular Color Of Cars

According to Motoramic, silver is no longer the most popular color for new cars, it was overthrown this year, by white.

Sandy McGillBMW Designworks’ lead designer in color, materials, and finish gives Steve Jobs and Apple credit for it.

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Steve Jobs Nearly Leaked The Original iPhone To A FedEx Employee

Steve Jobs Nearly Leaked The Original iPhone To A FedEx Employee

Apple has always been known as a company secretive about its upcoming products.

When the iPhone was launched back in 2007, the company arranged for guards and decoys for each of the Apple Stores just to ensure that information about the product did not leak out until the device went on sale. 

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Steve Jobs Advised Yelp’s CEO To Stay Independent And Not Sell Out To Google

Steve Jobs Advised Yelp’s CEO To Stay Independent And Not Sell Out To Google

Back in December 2009, Google made a bid to buy Yelp, the location based review site, for more than half a billion dollars.

The bid obviously failed, following which Yelp went on to become a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange. But the most interesting part of all this is a conversation Apple’s then CEO Steve Jobs had with Yelp’s CEO Jeremy Stoppelman.

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Obama, Clinton, Bono Pay Tribute To Steve Jobs At Webby Awards [Video]

Obama, Clinton, Bono Pay Tribute To Steve Jobs At Webby Awards [Video]

At the Webby awards held yesterday in New York, President Obama, President Clinton, George Lucas and a number of other luminaries paid tribute to Apple’s former CEO Steve Jobs, who passed away last year.

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Apple Director: Steve Jobs Wanted to Design an iCar

Apple Director: Steve Jobs Wanted to Design an iCar

Business Insider reports that Mickey Drexler, Chairman and CEO of J.Crew, who has been a director at Apple since 1999, has revealed in a interview that Steve Jobs also wanted to design a car before he died.

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Steve Jobs’ Notes For His Keynotes Were Also Beautiful

Steve Jobs’ Notes For His Keynotes Were Also Beautiful

Steve Jobs’ keynotes aka “Stevenotes” were quite legendary.

Reddit user points us to a photo on Flickr, which gives a rare glimpse of the notes that Steve Jobs used for his keynotes.

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Steve Jobs Take on Heads-Up Display Glasses

Steve Jobs Take on Heads-Up Display Glasses

Last week, Google unveiled their long rumored wearable augmented reality glasses, officially dubbed Google Glasses, which received quite a lot of buzz.

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