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Walter Isaacson
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Walter Isaacson

Walter Isaacson is president of the Aspen Institute. He has been chairman and CEO of CNN and managing editor of TIME magazine. He is the author of several books including the US bestseller BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: AN AMERICAN LIFE.

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NDTV, May 17, 2013
...girl there, so we started chatting a bit while I was waiting to be introduced," Jobs told Walter Isaacson, the author of the biography "Steve Jobs." They went out to dinner that evening, married two years later, and together had three children. Jobs...
Yahoo! Canada, May 17, 2013
...girl there, so we started chatting a bit while I was waiting to be introduced,” Mr. Jobs told Walter Isaacson, the author of the biography “Steve Jobs.” They went out to dinner that evening, married two years later, and together had three...
All Things D, May 15, 2013
...create a real mainstream e-books market at $12.99 and $14.99.” A comment Jobs made to biographer Walter Isaacson, explaining that Apple “told the publishers, ‘We’ll go the agency model, where you set the price, and we get our 30 percent, and...
Trentonian.com, May 15, 2013
...that it “solves Amazon issue,” Justice quoted him as saying. The company also quoted Jobs as telling biographer Walter Isaacson that Apple had “told the publishers, ‘We’ll go the agency model, where you set the price, and we get our 30...
Ghanaian Chronicle, May 15, 2013
...merged the virtues of Puritanism without its defects, the illumination of the enlightenment without its heat.? To Walter Isaacson, this makes Franklin ?the most accomplished American of his age and the most influential in inventing the type of society...
Apple Insider, May 15, 2013
...of the filing points to an excerpt from Jobs' authorized biography in which the tech mogul told biographer Walter Isaacson that Apple "told the publishers 'We'll go to the agency model, where you set the price, and we get our 30%, and yes, the customer...
Washington Post, May 14, 2013
...it solves [the] Amazon issue, Justice quoted him as saying. The company also quoted Jobs as telling biographer Walter Isaacson that Apple had told the publishers, Well go the agency model, where you set the price, and we get our 30 percent, and yes, the...
ZDNet, May 10, 2013
...Board less than a month later. Then, shortly before his death, Jobs gave this wonderful pearl to biographer Walter Isaacson "…I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I'm going to destroy Android, because it's...
NBCNews.com, May 9, 2013
...The Aspen Institute's Walter Isaacson and "Meet the Press" moderator David Gregory join a conversation on the testimony of three State Department officials at Wednesday's House Oversight Committee hearing on the Sept. 11...
NBCNews.com, May 9, 2013
...The Aspen Institute's Walter Isaacson and "Meet the Press" moderator David Gregory join a conversation on the testimony of three State Department officials at Wednesday's House Oversight Committee hearing on the Sept. 11...
NBCNews.com, May 9, 2013
...republican senator tom coburn will be here and david gregory of "meet the press" and al sharpton and walter isaacson . >> first talk about the severe weather that happened in kansas yesterday. this amazing picture from fairport, kansas . these are twin...
NBCNews.com, May 9, 2013
...republican senator tom coburn will be here and david gregory of "meet the press" and al sharpton and walter isaacson . >> first talk about the severe weather that happened in kansas yesterday. this amazing picture from fairport, kansas . these are twin...
FORA.tv, May 8, 2013
...Margaret Carlson, Columnist, Bloomberg News, Walter Isaacson, President and CEO, The Aspen Institute, and Steve Clemons, Editor-at-Large, The Atlantic and Quartz (Qz.com), conclude...