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Steve Jobs

Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple Computers with Steve Jobs in 1976, gestures during his address to business leaders at Woz Live in Sydney on May 14, 2012. Wozniak said engineers may be a vital part of Apple’s success but he is glad they aren’t the ones calling the shots at the company.

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  • Apple chief hints at 'intense interest' in TV

    in the United States and outlined his approach to managing an organization long-associated with its late founder Steve Jobs . Jobs died of cancer this past year."Another thing that Steve taught us all is to not to be focused on the past," Cook told this year's   Read more »

  • Facebook CEO turns 28, IPO could be $100B gift

    he's going to go public, he has to answer to shareholders," Pachter says. "That's why Google hired Eric Schmidt . That's why Steve Jobs was ultimately forced out of Apple ."Jobs, in fact, was another Silicon Valley luminary who had Zuckerberg's ear. He was   Read more »

  • At age 28, Facebook CEO gears up for IPO

    than Jobs was thenYoung as he may seem, Zuckerberg will be about the same age as Michael Dell and older than Steve Jobs when those two took their companies, Dell Inc. and Apple Inc. , public.Facebook got its start in Zuckerberg's Harvard dorm room in 2004.   Read more »

  • Steve Jobs patents at Smithsonian

    ' more than 300 technology patents with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office .The exhibit, "The Patents and Trademarks of Steve Jobs : Art and Technology That Changed the World," is on view through July 8 at the Smithsonian's Ripley Center.Smithsonian secretary   Read more »

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook emerges from Steve Jobs' shadow

    Steve Jobs' stage presence was honed over decades of trying to improve his style and his communications skills. The Steve Jobs of the mid-70s --and there are video tapes of him-- was not nearly as polished and charismatic as the Steve Jobs that we knew until   Read more »

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About Steve Jobs

Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (/ˈdʒɒbz/; February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, designer and inventor. He is best known as the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Through Apple, he was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution and for his influential career in the computer and consumer electronics fields. Jobs also co-founded and served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, when Disney acquired Pixar.

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