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Ron Johnson is still struggling to right JCPenney a year after leaving Apple to run the department store chain.

For the third year in a row, we asked our survey participants to name the companies they thought were the world’s most innovative. This year, Apple didn’t just top the rankings (as it did the past two years); it increased its lead substan- tially. The company — which in Au- gust 2012 became the most valuable in history, measured by market capi- talization — was named by almost 80 percent of respondents as one of the three most innovative companies in the world, up from 70 percent last year.

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9 to 5 Mac has a letter sent from Apple CEO Tim Cook to employees about the donation.

The downgrade to Baa3 from Baa2 follows a one-notch cut by Moody’s in October, which also said its outlook on the firm remained negative. Another cut would lower its rating to junk, forcing some funds to offload its debt and curtailing the company’s ability to raise money in credit markets.

It’s really sad. They were once such a powerful company with great products.

I’m looking forward to seeing how they do with this.

Dan Lyons was funny as Fake Steve Jobs, but as someone trying to be taken seriously as a writer, he’s failing. He seems angry, bitter and completely out of touch.

Eagle-eyed gamers noticed recently that Borderlands 2 recently popped up on Steam as a Mac offering, although no Mac version was actually available. Turns out a Mac version is coming soon – November 20, 2012, to be precise, from the … Continued

From the Google Cultural Institute.

The cause of the compromise is not described in detail in Twitter’s email — it just says “Twitter believes that your account may have been compromised by a website or service not associated with Twitter”.

Yikes.

Over the past few years I have been asked by many new and established bloggers what the secret is to blogging successfully. In fact, I’ve been asked so many times that I started thinking about it quite a bit and I’ve come up with the answer. […]

I’m doing this. […]

Bones Brigade: An Autobiography” is a film released this year that features what the director calls “the greatest skateboard team ever assembled.” The film on Wednesday made it to the No. 1 documentary on iTunes. […]

Spot The Station:

Did you know you can see the International Space Station from your house? As the third brightest object in the sky, after the sun and moon, the space station is easy to see if you know where and when to look for it.NASA’s Spot the Station service sends you an email or text message a few hours before the space station passes over your house.

This is kind of a neat idea, especially if the emails give you enough time to get outside and to a good, non-lit location.

Jim and Dan talk about iPad sales and how the press has handled it, the Microsoft Surface, the Nexus 4 and LTE, Google’s iOS Map app approval, Google Search vs. Siri, the “real” iPad, cabinets and the Multistomp Xoom pedal, and more.

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Marco Arment:

If you truly dislike bullshit writing and don’t want to support it, hit the publishers where it hurts: don’t read it, and don’t link to it.

Marco brings up a good point, but there is another side to this. The mainstream media often writes complete shit articles that are factually wrong. Ignoring it won’t make it go away. The average consumer often believes the crap these people write, so taking them down a peg or two may help.

I honestly don’t know if it helps or not, but I feel a responsibility to point out articles that are incorrect. Perhaps shaming them and the sites they work for will help.

Of course, there is a group of people that just write bullshit for pageviews — I don’t always link to those.

“I am pleased and proud to become a member of the board,” Cue said in a statement. “I have personally dreamed of owning a Ferrari since I was 8 years old and have been lucky to be an owner for the past 5 years. I continue to be awed by the world-class design and engineering that only Ferrari can do.”

I wonder if Eddy needs an assistant.

Space.com:

Call it the ultimate absentee ballot.NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station have the option of voting in the presidential election from orbit.Astronauts residing on the orbiting lab receive a digital version of their ballot, which is beamed up by Mission Control at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Filled-out ballots find their way back down to Earth along the same path.

Prime typically costs $79 a year in the United States for free two-day shipping, free video streaming and access to Amazon’s Kindle e-book lending library. The company is now offering the service for $7.99 a month on its website, which works out to $95.88 a year, but at that rate it can be purchased strictly on a month-to-month basis.

This can only be good for consumers.

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

And Ice Cream Sandwich too. Be safe Android people.

Just in case you don’t know where to go. I laughed.

[Via Laughing Squid]

I agree completely with what Gruber said.

Interesting thoughts. Tim remains Tim and Jony sort of takes Steve’s role, restoring the balance.

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New benchmarks reveal how badly the Microsoft Surface sucks at Web browsing.

Forbes profiles Khan Academy, the nonprofit online learning institution.