Information: - General Magic was a company co-founded by Bill Atkinson , Andy Hertzfeld and Marc Porat that developed a new kind of handheld communications device they called a '' personal intelligent communicator '' , which was a PDA precursor that stressed communications . During the early 1990s , Joanna Hoffman was vice president of Marketing . The original project started in 1990 within Apple Computer , when Porat convinced Apple 's CEO at the time John Sculley that the next generation of computing would require a partnership of computer , communications and consumer electronics companies to cooperate . Known as the Paradigm project , the project ran for some time within Apple , but management remained generally uninterested and the team struggled for resources . Eventually they approached Sculley with the idea of spinning off the group as a separate company , which occurred in May 1990 . The company started to generate some buzz during that year , and by 1992 some of the world 's largest electronics corporations , including Sony , Motorola , Matsushita , Philips and AT&T Corporation were partners and investors in General Magic . Apple also decided to re-enter the market with a project that eventually developed into the Apple Newton , and they decided to sue General Magic . The lawsuit did not produce a definitive outcome , however there remained long running tensions betweens the two companies . The company floated an IPO on the stock exchange in February 1995 and the stock doubled on the first day . - NeXT (later NeXT Computer and NeXT Software) was an American computer and software company founded in 1985 by Steve Jobs, based in Redwood City, California, that developed and manufactured a series of computer workstations intended for the higher education and business markets. NeXT was founded in 1985 by Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs, after he was ousted at Apple, along with several co-workers. NeXT introduced the first NeXT Computer in 1988, and the smaller NeXTstation in 1990. The NeXT computers experienced relatively limited sales, with estimates of about 50,000 units shipped in total. Nevertheless, their innovative object-oriented NeXTSTEP operating system and development environment were highly influential. - Eazel was a software company based in Mountain View, California from 1999 to 2001. - Joanna Karine Hoffman (born July 27, 1955) is a marketing executive. She was one of the original members of both the Apple Computer Macintosh team and the NeXT team. - Bill Atkinson (born 1951) is an American computer engineer and photographer. Atkinson worked at Apple Computer from 1978 to 1990. - Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products that include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, software, and hardware. - Marc Porat is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor. He is founder of six companies including General Magic. General Magic has been called ." In the early 2000s, Porat was a member of a high profile wave of tech executives who founded cleantech companies. He launched three companies in the built environment: Serious Materials, Zeta Communities, and CalStar Cement and was a member of the U.S. China Green Energy Council. Early Career. Porat authored a pivotal work entitled The Information Economy as his doctoral thesis at Stanford University in which he predicted the transition from a manufacturing-based U.S. economy to one based on information. Porat is credited with first identifying the U.S. as an "information society." Later, his nephew Aaron Hurst defined and wrote about the "Purpose Economy" and credited Porat with the inspiration for predicting the rise of a new economy. - Andy Hertzfeld (born April 6, 1953) is an American computer scientist and inventor who was a member of the original Apple Macintosh development team during the 1980s. After buying an Apple II in January 1978, he went to work for Apple Computer from August 1979 until March 1984, where he was a designer for the Macintosh system software. Since leaving Apple, he has co-founded three companies: Radius in 1986, General Magic in 1990 and Eazel in 1999. In 2002, he helped Mitch Kapor promote open source software with the Open Source Applications Foundation. Hertzfeld joined Google in 2005, and in 2011 was the key designer of the Circles user interface in Google+. - Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California, adjacent to Palo Alto and between San Jose and San Francisco. Its campus is one of the largest in the United States. Stanford also has land and facilities elsewhere. - Mitchell David "Mitch" Kapor, born November 1, 1950, is an entrepreneur best known for promoting the first spreadsheet VisiCalc, and later founding Lotus, where he was instrumental in developing the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet. He left Lotus in 1986. In 1990 with John Perry Barlow and John Gilmore, he co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and served as its chairman until 1994. Kapor has been an investor in the personal computing industry, and supporter of social causes, like the Hidden Genius Project, The College Bound Brotherhood, and Advancement Project. As Partner at Kapor Capital and the Kapor Center for Social Impact, Mitch, along with his wife Freada Kapor Klein, invests in social impact tech startups that seek to narrow gaps in opportunity and access for underrepresented communities and attempt to eliminate barriers to full participation across the tech ecosystem. What is the relationship between 'general magic' and 'mountain view'?
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