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Steve Jobs Loathed Google Till His Last Breath On Earth?

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Steve Jobs loathed Google till his last breath on earth? Apple’s co-founder Steve Jobs swore that Google’s Android was stolen from his iPhone, according to Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography of Jobs. The book is number #1 on Amazon . “I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong,” Jobs told Isaacson. “I‘m going to destroy Android because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go to thermonuclear war on this. They are scared to death because they know they are guilty,” Jobs swore. The biography was released after Jobs lost his long battle with pancreatic cancer on October 5, Jobs was disappointed , because he had been a mentor to Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. About the Biography Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has...

Google: Lucy Weds Larry

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Dec 8 2007 The groom Larry and his bride Lucy . Google's co-founder and billionaire Larry Page and his Stanford girlfriend Lucy Southworth are wedding today on Richard Branson's Caribbean Necker Island. Larry and Lucy snuggle inside the Google Jet . Former US president Bill Clinton and wife Hillary are among the invited dignitaries invited to the wedding, including Bono of U2. The VIPs will be flown on private jets from around the world to wedding ceremony. The Google Jet Larry Page, 34, is worth over $18 billion, from the fortune he made from Google, the world's most popular search engine, he invented with his classmate, Sergey Brin, at Stanford University in 1998. Larry and Lucy smooching on the Google Jet Page's fiancee, Lucy Southworth, 27, is a PhD student in "biomedical informatics" at Stanford University, and also has a masters degree in science from Oxford University. Page's party has booked out the entire island, which has space for only 28 guests...