Steve Jobs on Wednesday announced the launch of a social network piggybacking on Apple's iTunes music store.  -More- Download your free copy of a just-released survey from Pivot Conference where brand marketers and ad agency professionals rep... [Continue...]

Yesterday Steve Jobs of Apple announced the launch of Ping – a social network that revolves around the sharing of music. Users will be able to share songs and playlists and be able to purchase songs directly from a link in a status update. Thus driv... [Continue...]

Facebook friend importing was a key feature of Apple’s new Ping social network, until discussions between the companies fell through, Facebook blocked Ping’s access to its data, and Apple removed the feature from Ping entirely — accor... [Continue...]

We'd already heard whispers that Apple had to yank Facebook Connect integration from its new Ping music network because the connection was being denied by Facebook, and now Kara Swisher at All Things D is confirming it -- and she's saying Facebook sh... [Continue...]

When Steve Jobs singled out Steve Wozniak as his "partner in crime" at yesterday's event, he wasn't just speaking figuratively. Here's a clip recounting the time Woz, Jobs, and infamous Captain Crunch... [Continue...]

The iPod helped Apple rise from the dead in the last decade. But the iPod Classic, the device that jump-started that resurrection, didn't get so much as a mention from Steve Jobs at Apple's iPod event on Wednesday. [Continue...]

Steve Jobs, speaking at the D8 conference, explains how Apple chooses the technologies to include in their products: Apple is a company that doesn’t have the most resources of everybody in the world, and the way we’ve succeeded is by choosi... [Continue...]

Jared Newman: Before Steve Jobs introduced the new iPod Touch, he immediately started bragging about the devices gaming dominance. He claimed that the iPod Touch accounts for half of the portable gaming market, with more sales than Sony or Nintendos ha... [Continue...]

Apple certainly took its sweet time releasing iTunes 10 yesterday, and we're beginning to think it's because the company was making a last-second change to its new Ping social-network-for-music: the removal of Facebook Connect for finding friends. Ser... [Continue...]

Steve Jobs called out his “partner in crime” Steve Wozniak yesterday at the launch of Apple’s new products. Wozniak, also known as Woz, stood up and took the applause. Afterward, reporters grabbed him for his reaction. Here’s a ... [Continue...]

- CEO Steve Jobs called Apple TV a hobby, but the Techmate guys think the revamped product could become a hit with consumers. [Continue...]

Macworld.com - Apple bucked tradition and streamed Wednesday’s special event live, so that iPod and Apple TV enthusiasts (with well-equipped Macs, iPhones, or iPads) could watch Steve Jobs show off the company’s latest wizardry in near re... [Continue...]

PC Magazine - Before Steve Jobs took the stage for Apple's Wednesday press event, all we had were rumors and predictions. Which ones came true and which ones were pipe dreams? Let's take a look. [Continue...]

Talks with Facebook about Apple's new Ping music social network fizzled, Jobs says, because Facebook wanted "onerous terms that we could not agree to." ... [Continue...]

- Steve Jobs' latest iteration of the set-top box gets mixed-positive reviews on Wall Street Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster: We see the new Apple TV as a meaningful change in Apple's efforts in the digital living room. [Continue...]

Did Steve Jobs pull Facebook support for Ping, Apple's new music-focused social networking service, at the last second?Ping launched yesterday without support for Facebook, the world's most popular soc... [Continue...]

So, there's Apple's new social network for iTunes called Ping. It was just announced this week and as Steve Jobs himself described it; it's "like Facebook and Twitter meet iTunes."We all know how this goes. Jobs launched it, so count on Ping to be Webs... [Continue...]

- Yesterday at the Apple music event in San Francisco, I had a short chat with Apple CEO Steve Jobs about its new social music service, called Ping. Essentially, it is a vertical version--in this case for music--of Facebook. [Continue...]

- Apple events are typically heavy on metrics and yesterday’s affair was no exception. In fact, it was more abundant with the stats than most I’ve seen, with CEO Steve Jobs trotting out quite an array of big milestone numbers with w... [Continue...]

VG247 writes: During the Apple event, which is going on at the moment, Steve Jobs not only bragged a bit about iPod Touch outselling DS and PSP combined, but announced Game Center will finally be released along with iOS 4.1. [Continue...]

As he was boasting that Apple is activating 230,000 iOS devices a day at Apple’s San Francisco event yesterday, Steve Jobs took the opportunity to accuse competitors of boosting their numbers when it comes to device activations.… [Continue...]

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Evidently a few of my friends have found Steve Jobs’ profile and followed him.  Apple must have discovered that, because whenever I click on his profile, I get the following popup, saying, “Your Ping Account is Disabled.”  Of course... [Continue...]

Apple’s event was a great show for the music enthusiasts who were enthralled to watch Steve Jobs pulling out each surprise from his goodie bag of announcements. Though most of had quite an idea of what was coming (new iPod players and 99 cent TV rent... [Continue...]

Sydney Morning HeraldApple shows off its next generationsMontreal GazetteThe new lightweight Nano with multi-touch screens, iPads streaming television, and iTunes as a social networking platform are just part of Apple Inc.'s ...Steve Jobs Targets L... [Continue...]