Google looks outside the company to hire some integrity, Best Buy looks outside to consumers for mythical product research, and spammers look to Steve Jobs for inspiration. The remainders for Monday, February 6, 2012 are looking sharp.
Speaking at the D: Dive into Media conference, Neil Young says that he was talking to Steve Jobs about improving digital music download quality before the former Apple CEO’s death last year.
Apple’s new lottery system in Hong Kong doesn’t yet involve scratch tickets, but the company made plenty of scratch last quarter, and the Steve Jobs quotes and pictures going up around Apple’s campus only scratch the surface of the man.
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From the Macworld | iWorld show floor, Jason Snell talks with Daring Fireball’s John Gruber and Chicago Sun-Times columnist Andy Ihnatko about Apple in the post-Steve Jobs era.
In a TV interview with ABC’s Nightline, Bill Gates says that he has been inspired to push on with his philanthropic work after the death of Steve Jobs reminded him that we only have “limited time” on earth.

