STEVE JOBS

Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is the American co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. and the former CEO of Pixar Animation Studios.

In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, created one of the first commercially successful personal computers. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of the mouse-driven graphical user interface. After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher education and business markets. NeXT's subsequent 1997 buyout by Apple Computer Inc. brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and he has served as its CEO since then. Steve Jobs was listed as Fortune Magazine's Most Powerful Businessman of 2007.

In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd which was spun off as Pixar Animation Studios. He remained CEO and majority shareholder until its acquisition by the Walt Disney Company in 2008 Jobs is currently the Walt Disney Company's largest individual shareholder and a member of its Board of Directors. He is considered a leading figure in both the computer and entertainment industries.

Jobs's history in business has contributed greatly to the myths of the quirky, individualistic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, emphasizing the importance of design while understanding the crucial role aesthetics play in public appeal. His work driving forward the development of products that are both functional and elegant has earned him a devoted following.

Jobs is currently on a leave of absence from Apple due to health issues. (via Wikipedia)

From The Blogsphere

Don't Believe Every Tweet

via wired.com ( 64 Days ago )
Bill O'Reilly is gay? Steve Jobs is dead? Oh, the lies Twitter told you this year!

Essay: Steve Jobs’ Legacy Is Missing Clue to Apple Tablet

via wired.com ( 96 Days ago )
If you’ve only been half paying attention, you probably think that the Apple Tablet is a done deal. It isn’t. Outside the impervious hallways of One Infinite Loop, the tablet remains a technological unicorn — a mythical beast whose beauty, elegance and singularity we can only imagine. Wired.com is among the vast majority of publications which fervently believes, however. [...]

Apple shares soar; value beats Google

via nypost.com ( 112 Days ago )
Steve Jobs is officially the king of Silicon Valley. The Apple CEO snagged the title yesterday when shares of Apple soared to a new yearly high and helped Apple's market cap sail past search-engine giant Google for the first time, reaching $179.3 ...

Time for Digital Music to Get a Reality Check

via gigaom.com ( 136 Days ago )
It’s been a busy September for the digital music business. Steve Jobs reappeared onstage to introduce the iTunes LP format and a series of new iPods. Anticipation grew around European streaming music service Spotify, which is due to arrive on U.S. shores in the coming months. And a series of mobile music applications that compete indirectly with the iPod were approved by the [...]

Google says Apple dropped app

via nypost.com ( 143 Days ago )
Another piece of Google's battle with Steve Jobs' Apple hit the public eye yesterday. The two companies have been fighting over Google Voice, an application that lets users make free domestic calls and deeply discounted international calls. Acc...

Apple Hires Intel's Top Lawyer

via nytimes.com ( 147 Days ago )
Bruce Sewell will report to Steve Jobs as Apple’s general counsel and senior vice president for legal and government affairs.

Steve Jobs says no Apple e-book. No one believes him

via venturebeat.com ( 151 Days ago )
After Apple’s fun-but-not-earthshattering debut of a video-shooting iPod Nano earlier this week, Steve Jobs gave New York Times reporter David Pogue an interview. Asked if Apple was ready to debut an e-reader like Amazon’s Kindle — but much, much prettier, of course — Jobs said he didn’t think e-readers made sense: “I’m sure there will always be [...]

Switched On: The iPod touch and the big picture

via engadget.com ( 151 Days ago )
Ross Rubin (@rossrubin) contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. In a New York Times interview of Steve Jobs conducted by Engadget columnist aspirant David Pogue, Apple's CEO suggested that the company did not include a camera on the iPod touch because the company was now marketing the iPod touch as a game machine and that a camera was not germane to such a device. [...]

Apple Fans Give Twitter Indigestion

via gigaom.com ( 153 Days ago )
Sometimes love is so powerful it can take out a server or two. Today, as the Mac faithful gathered in San Francisco for the Apple event today, they tweeted CEO Steve Jobs’ appearance, the new product announcements, and their overall rapture, causing Twitter to stagger during the hours of 10 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. PDT, according to data from web performance firm AlertSite. Apple [...]