Brad Stone is an American

United States

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 journalist

Journalism

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 and writer. Before moving to Bloomberg

Bloomberg L.P.

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http://twitter.com/BradStone/status/18612079353, he was a longtime technology correspondent for The New York Times

The New York Times

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. He also worked at Newsweek

Newsweek

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. In 2003, he published his first book, Gearheads (ISBN 0-7432-2951-7), about the combat robot culture.

On August 5, 2007, Stone published a story in the Times exposing Forbes

Forbes

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editor Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons is an American writer. He was a senior editor at Forbes magazine and is now a writer at Newsweek.-Career:He has written a book of short stories, The Last Good Man , a novel, Dog Days , and a fictional biography, Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, a Parody...

 as "Fake Steve Jobs," the author of The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs.

Brad was a panelist on the podcast

Podcast

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TWiT (This Week in Tech

This Week in Tech

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), episode 118 dated October 21, 2007.

Stone is an alumnus of the University School

University School

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 (1989) and Columbia University

Columbia University

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 (1993). He lives in San Francisco. Brad is a twin

Twin

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, and he has a set of twins as well.