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CD Baby’s Sivers: Jobs dissed me in 2003

CD Baby’s Sivers: Jobs dissed me in 2003
In what could turn out to be a remarkable case of tempting fate, CD Baby founder and former president Derek Sivers has revealed in a blog post the story of miscommunication, mistrust and misunderstanding that hobbled his company’s entry into iTunes and resulted in public rebuke by Steve Jobs. While relations were eventually repaired, the tale gives rare insight into the secrecy behind Apple’s …
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Twitter hooks up with Apple’s Ping music social network
SAN FRANCISCO – Unveiling Apple’s new music-focused social network Ping in September, chief executive Steve Jobs described it as “sort of like Facebook and Twitter meet iTunes.”Facebook and Ping have yet to meet but…
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Apple’s music site gets tweeting
Having failed to befriend Facebook, Apple does a deal with Twitter to give its social music site Ping a new platform.
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