Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Porat tells it in hindsight, the idea for his device — with phone, messaging, note-taking, and game functions — came to him in ...

A couple years ago, Mike Stern set out to share the story of a great Silicon Valley failure. In the mid 1990s, he had become general counsel for a company called General Magic. General Magic, the film ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A former tech executive covering AI and XR for Forbes. This article is more than 8 years old. Former Apple CEO John Scully calls ...

When people in Silicon Valley recall General Magic, they generally remember it as a tragedy. Originally an internal project at Apple, General Magic proposed making personal communicators that would ...

Last year, the documentary General Magic recounted how what was once the most hyped startup in the world tried to build the smartphone of the 2010s in the 1990s. With funding from Apple and ...

The formerly hot Silicon Valley company once enjoyed investments from Apple and Microsoft and let rabbits wander free around its offices to inspire creativity. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Matthew Maude and Sarah Kerruish's documentary 'General Magic' chronicles the rise and fall of the pioneering tech company that created a product ahead of its time. By Frank Scheck See if you can ...

Sarah Kerruish and Matt Maude’s bittersweet documentary details the groundbreaking Silicon Valley work that led to today’s smartphones. The story of a failure that was, in fact, a triumph, “General ...