We'll be speaking with special guest Ms. Yukari Iwatani Kane former Wall Street Journal reporter and author of "Haunted Empire Apple After Steve Jobs". We'll be discussing the current status of Apple, news in technology, and answer questions from our listeners. From her website: Yukari Iwatani Kane is a veteran journalist with nearly fifteen years of experience writing about the technology industry. As a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, she covered Apple during the last years of Steve Jobs's reign. Kane is best known for her in-depth analysis and scoops, among which include the news about Steve Jobs’s liver transplant, the iPad and the Verizon iPhone. Her stories have included the off-beat and hilarious like a piece on a fifteen-year old iPhone hacker and a story on iPad couture that became the subject of a Stephen Colbert rant. In 2011, she was named as a Gerald Loeb Award finalist as part of a WSJ team for a series on Internet privacy.Among her peers, she developed a reputation as the recipient of controlled leaks from Apple, even becoming the subject of a segment on NPR’s On the Media. The truth is considerably less interesting. All of her scoops and stories came from painstaking reporting and vetting.

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