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For anyone who has read the new Steve Jobs biography and enjoyed the stories of how he bought and changed the direction of Pixar, this Friday's Digital Media Symposium , or DiMe, should be a real treat.

First, stop searching for the creativity formula. When Steve Jobs was designing Pixar's office space, the computer graphics company he founded between gigs at Apple, he wanted to locate the building's only bathrooms in a center atrium, forcing people to interact with each other by chance.

It's hard to find anyone anywhere who has anything less-than-glowing to say about Jack Dorsey , the entrepreneur who invented Twitter and another red-hot company called Square and is now Twitter's product guru.

The co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios and the CEOs of several local tech startups will be presenting next Friday, Feb.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released its file on Apple co-founder Steven Paul Jobs, who died last October.

Steve Jobs sounds like a bit of a bad apple in his newly released FBI file. The late Apple founder behind iPads, iPods and the Pixar icon Buzz Lightyear had questionable moral character, a daughter he ignored for years and a history of getting buzzed himself, according to the highly redacted file released Thursday.

In the culturally fractured Internet age, it's hard for a single voice to stand out.

The Alamo South Lamar Friday begins a week of screenings of Oscar-nominated short films.

When the Academy Award nominations were announced Jan. 24, most of Hollywood was waiting to see which films would emerge as best picture contenders.

Lake Buena Vista Hotels If you want to stay near Disney World then you need to check out the hotels in Lake Buena Vista It's kind of a long drive from the woods of New Hampshire to northern Georgia.

Animated movies from Japan's Studio Ghibli such as "Spirited Away" and "Ponyo" have been blockbusters in foreign markets, but have brought in just middling receipts in the U.S. - despite critical acclaim and strong marketing support from Walt Disney Co.

In the culturally fractured Internet age, it's hard for a single voice to stand out.

Although seven technology giants from Silicon Valley requested the district court dismiss a lawsuit that alleges anti-poaching deals, U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh stated yesterday that the companies must defend themselves from the plaintiffs' complaints.

Picture perfect. Former Meadowvale resident Benjamin Su has been working at Pixar Animation Studios in California for the last two years.

Animator. Former Meadowvale resident Benjamin Su has been working at Pixar Animation Studios in California for the last two years.

Welcome to the wacky and often wonderful world of animation. As Oscar sees it, this is one of the most unusual years ever.

As torrents of cash flow into Apple's pockets, new attention is being drawn to how Apple makes the products it sells.

A 2007 e-mail uncovered in the course of a lawsuit reveals that under Steve Jobs' request, Google's Eric Schmidt got one of the company's own recruiters fired after they tried to hire an Apple engineer.

Apple's Steve Jobs directly asked former Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt to stop trying to recruit an Apple engineer, a transgression that threatened one junior Google employee's job, according to a court filing.

In Silicon Valley's white-hot competition for tech talent, programmers can face a daily barrage of calls from recruiters seeking to woo them to rival companies with offers of better pay and perks.