The late Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) co-founder and chairman Steve Jobs worked on company operations up until the day before he passed away. When Apple CEO Tim Cook was meeting with Masayoshi Son, the CEO of SoftBank Capital, he received a call from Jobs. “That was the day of the announcement of the iPhone 4S. He said that Steve is calling me because he wants to talk about their next product. And the next day, he died,” said Son.

Enflick is a company that has developed the applications TextNow and PingChat. Enflick has raised $1 million in seed funding. Freestyle Capital was the lead investor in this round. Menlo Ventures Talent Fund, Troy Carter (Lady Gaga’s manager), and Scooter Braun (Justin Bieber’s manager) also participated in this round.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) is planning to launch a new feature called Flow Visualizations. This feature was announced by Google SVP of ads Susan Wojcicki at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco. This feature will be launched for all Google Analytics users today.

Liftopia is a San Francisco based online retailer of ski lifting and mountain resort transactions. Liftopia has raised $1.3 million in a round of funding led by First Round Capital. Other investors in this round includes Dave Morin, Chris Sacca, Erik Blachford, and Sam Shank.

Samsung Electronics COO Lee Jae-yong and Apple CEO Tim Cook met with each other to discuss the long-term parts cooperation between the two companies. The two met this past Monday after Lee attended a memorial service for Steve Jobs. Apple and Samsung are strategic partners and rivals in legal battles at the same time. Jae-yong told reporters that Samsung will continue to sell parts to Apple until 2012. “For the 2013-2014 period, we discussed how best to supply even better parts,” said Jae-yong. Apple is Samsung’s largest semiconductor customer today. [KoreaHerald]

The late Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs passed away on October 5 after a tumultuous battle with pancreatic cancer. After Jobs passed away, Apple sent out a notice with an e-mail address to share memories and feelings about him (rememberingsteve@apple.com). Apple has received over one million tributes to the “Remembering Steve” e-mail address. People can still send tributes and they will be posted to the Apple website if approved.

Samsung Mobile President Shin Jong-kyun has said that the Galaxy Nexus smartphone, the first device to run on Android Ice Cream Sandwich, has avoided using technology contained within Apple’s patents. “Now we will avoid everything we can and take patents very seriously,” said Jong-kyun.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) SVP of Mobile Andy Rubin announced at the AsiaD conference that the company is close to launching a music service. “I think we’re close,” said Rubin. The Google music store “will have a little twist – it will have a little Google in it. It won’t just be selling 99 cent tracks.” [AllThingsD]