In the early 90’s, a company called General Magic began working on a portable device that would allow people to check email, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Former high-flying software developer General Magic has filed for bankruptcy, marking one of the company's last acts in its tumultuous history. The move by General Magic comes as a formality, given ...

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 ...

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 ...

(General Magic, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA) A former company founded in 1990 as a spin-off of Apple. General Magic was established to create a platform for personal communications and license the technology ...

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 ...