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If this was not music to the ears of advocates of the humanities, they quickly found a soulmate in Steve Jobs.

Life hasn't always been easy for Steve Jobs. But, Jobs shook off the letdown and he went on to found the NeXT Corporation and Pixar.

Few details of Steve Jobs ' health have ever been made public, but experts speculate that his cancer may have been a case of late diagnosis.

At the end of June, the company's co-founder and chief executive Steve Jobs made headlines when he returned to work after medical leave.

Tim Cook promised that Apple Inc. wouldn't change when he took over the company's helm from Steve Jobs in August.

WHEN it came to putting on a show, nobody else in the computer industry, or any other industry for that matter, could match Steve Jobs.

Yunus , the founder of the bank, is an entrepreneurial figure cut from the same cloth as Steve Jobs , the founder of Apple .

Waiting for call to begin. Share are up in after-hours trading, and have made up for the dip earlier today on the Steve Jobs health news.

Steve Jobs' products have touched so many lives. So sad to see such an innovator pass away at such a young age. Yet, he will live on.

Steve Jobs, on a conference call with analysts, recently referred to this as a "nascent" market that Apple was watching.

He added that he has 'no doubt' Apple's late leader Steve Jobs also was working on changing the traditional TV set.

Though Steve Jobs might get his way in China over the issue of shared technology, he would be one of few.

Of course, trying to get Manny to cut off his dreads is like telling Steve Jobs that the iPhone needs to have a keypad.

Steve Jobs was a college dropout. He was adopted by a machinist and his wife, an accountant.

Steve Jobs has never been a particularly good public speaker himself.

"Steve Jobs and Jack Welch have done more damage to ordinary businesses and business people than anyone else, " he said.

I predict Apple will do fine without Steve Jobs, whether he comes back in June, later, or not at all.

Two months after Steve Jobs introduced the iPad, and a week before it went on sale, Fujitsu handed the trademark over to Apple.

Unless Rubin could come up with a breakthrough Android phone, and quick, he might have to concede the entire business to Steve Jobs.

But that's basically the size of Apple's new building, proposed by CEO Steve Jobs, although a bit of a smaller footprint overall.

That makes him in many ways like Steve Jobs, who designed and marketed products better than already existing similar competing products.

I feel honored to have known Steve Jobs. He was the most innovative entrepreneur of our generation. His legacy will live on for the ages.

Apple's board of directors had been kicked out of the company Steve Jobs Godfather.

Such an offer, he said, would endear Apple and its recently deceased chairman, Steve Jobs, to millions of Chinese.

The biography, simply titled Steve Jobs, was at the top of the best-seller lists within hours of Apple's announcement of his death.

The book, titled simply "Steve Jobs, " also achieved the biggest week of sales for any book in the U. S. for almost a year.

That emphasis on consilience, even if it came at the expense of convenience, has always been a defining trait of Steve Jobs.

We celebrate somebody like a Steve Jobs, who has created two or three different revolutionary products.

Steve Jobs, the firm's iconic boss, is to quit the daily grind, at least for a while, to focus on his health.

No one has changed the world so much in these decades like Steve Jobs, who has no throne, no military force, no political title.

Steve Jobs was one of the first businessmen to say that was a waste of time.

It was also revealed that the company's CEO, Steve Jobs, has had a liver transplant two months ago.

It was an unusual statement for the head of a technology firm, but it was vintage Steve Jobs.

When Steve Jobs introduced the iPad and referred to it as a magical device, lots of people snickered.

PASSING through California on a mid-term campaign swing, Barack Obama made a point of stopping off to see Steve Jobs, the boss of Apple.

Steve Jobs claimed that he had finally "cracked the code" for TV, and part of that code was interacting with your TV.

For as much as China churns out more engineers and programmers than America does, it has yet to produce a Steve Jobs.

Apple presents an air of magic, and everyone involved with Apple wants Steve Jobs to be healthy.

It was, as Apple CEO Steve Jobs put in an internal email, not Apple's "finest hour" .

Not long after Steve Jobs got married, in 1991, he moved with his wife to a nineteen-thirties, Cotswolds-style house in old Palo Alto.

However, we do hope that Steve Jobs is just fine and is simply ready to retire.

When Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple's chief executive last Wednesday the world knew that it was the end of an era.

NOBODY else in the computer industry, or any other industry for that matter, could put on a show like Steve Jobs.

Just over a year ago, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg were reportedly spotted taking a walk together in Palo Alto.

I bet Steve Jobs and a few Apple guys with baseball bats stroll in and begin to trash the place.

Asked to comment, an Apple spokesman referred to a long-standing policy as outlined by Chief Executive Steve Jobs last October.

It's the first interview Sculley has given on the subject of Steve Jobs since he was forced out of the company in 1993.

I wanted to offer a lift to a rather large friend but apparently Steve Jobs wouldn't let him in because he'd affect the performance.

Here's a portrait of Steve Jobs made out of parts of a Macbook Pro, issued by web design company Mint Digital.

Again, really, why - I thought we talked about this last year. You think these people are really gonna believe that you're Steve Jobs?

Medvedev's chief economic aide, Arkady Dvorkovich, tweeted: "Applause to Steve Jobs for everything that he did in his not so long life. "

The late Steve Jobs was a strong critic of the reliability of Flash technology, banning it from Apple's wireless gadgets.

She delivered this eulogy for her brother, Steve Jobs, on Oct. 16 at his memorial service at the Memorial Church of Stanford University.

Until then, we are left with the conclusion that Steve Jobs died just as he lived -- thinking differently.

STEVE JOBS says Apple does not know how to make a $500 computer "that's not a piece of junk" .

This Thanksgiving, Steve Jobs is one of the things that I'm thankful for. And I bet you are too.

But Barack Obama get his hands on Apple's tablet device before it even hit the shops - after being given one personally by Steve Jobs.

We were all saddened by the news of Steve Jobs' passing earlier this week.

It's been a rocky year for Apple: CEO Steve Jobs' health made headlines, and critics said Cupertino wasn't being open enough about it.

If I hate the talent and resources of Steve Jobs, I'd be able to create slides just fine.

Any list of candidates to be the 'next Steve Jobs' is sure to spark an argument, sometimes from the nominees themselves.

But in reviewing the career of Steve Jobs, there's a case to be made that he was the greatest entrepreneur ever.

With Steve Jobs' stepping down as Apple's CEO, some consumers, like this man from Germany, fear Apple no longer will be the same.

By the few accounts have leaked out of Apple's tightly sealed PR machine, the iPad would appear to be Steve Jobs' baby.

Steve Jobs, its chief executive, talks disdainfully about netbooks and is nothing if not obstinate.

Why do people with an extraordinary excellence in their field, often pass away way too early. . . Steve Jobs was absolutely one of them.

But unless you're a technological genius--another Bill Gates or Steve Jobs--trying to reinvent the wheel is a big waste of time.

Today, in order to mourn over Apple's visionary-Steve Jobs, we'll cherish the memory of him.

Steve Jobs said when he opened the App Store that it was designed to merely break even -- and he probably meant it.

Steve Jobs was the great exception, widely admired precisely because he is seen as a quintessentially American self-made man.

While we think Bloomberg's report is accurate, we want to stress this point: only Steve Jobs knows what Apple is planning to do next.

Gathered here are images of Steve Jobs, along with a few remembrances from around the world.

He's in his Steve Jobs sales mode, but kind of the sales mode that also says, 'I don't need you, but I might let you be involved. '

Obviously, a ham sandwich can't run Apple. Steve Jobs is undeniably one of the most visionary and innovative leaders of our generation.

Almost none of this earnings miss has anything to do with "slowing growth, " Steve Jobs or the global macroeconomic environment.

And you know something, I've never once got John, Paul, George, or Ringo confused with Steve Jobs.

He has been kicked out of the middle class and must spend the rest of his life with the likes of Steve Jobs and Oprah Winfrey.

And then I met him for the first time and it was almost hallucinogenic, because he looks so much like Steve Jobs.

Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive, doesn't often answer emails from his customers but when he does his replies are short and blunt.

But all of that's ok. Because without Steve Jobs' Apple the world would be a less colorful place.

"Steve [Jobs] and I are very close personal friends, " Schmidt said this summer. "I believe he's the best CEO in the world by any measure. "

Apple fans won't have to wait as long to read the authorized story of Steve Jobs' life.

As CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs was like a French chef: he strove to create great products and had great dramatic flair for presentation.

It's a bit absurd to try to identify 'the next Steve Jobs. '

"He is presentable and charismatic although he still has a distance to go from Apple's Steve Jobs, " said an analyst who covers the company.

But the visible face of its media efforts and strongest voice in intercompany negotiations has always been Steve Jobs.

And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.

Bill Gates said that of Steve Jobs at the D5 conference two years ago, and we knew exactly what he meant.

Steve Jobs, mastermind behind Apple, has resigned as CEO of the company effective immediately.

Steve Jobs, the company's boss, took time from sick leave to reassure users: "Your precise location is never transmitted to Apple. "

Imagine -- if I'd received that phone call today from Steve Jobs, hundreds of thousands of people would know about it.

The departure of Scotty, one of Steve Jobs' strongest opponents, gave him more freedom at Apple.

Every single person who'd attack Steve Jobs on any of these grounds is, demonstrably, worse at business than Jobs.

Steve Jobs' personal intuition helped the company to reinvent itself across many different product lines.

Steve Jobs's health has long been a concern in the background for Apple stockholders.

Isn't it sort of curious that the minute Steve Jobs departs this earth, Apple misses for the first time since 2004?

Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive, returned from sick leave to announce the company's new cloud storage service, iCloud.

Steve Jobs's magic was to marry clever code with a fanatical devotion to aesthetics, rare in the tech world.

"We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today, " the company said in a brief statement.

For instance, would someone like Steve Jobs, who recently resigned from Apple, meet the cut for the global impact of his company?

So, while Apple works on a cloud service, CEO Steve Jobs might be surprised to find Google has begun serenading iTunes users.

In our view, the compression of Apple's valuation multiples reflected investors preparing for the day when Steve Jobs is no longer CEO.

Apple Chairman Steve Jobs, who stepped down as Apple CEO last month, has said little about his own philanthropic activities.

Even Steve Jobs seems rattled; last October, he dropped in on an investors' phone call to deliver a rant on what he sees as Android's flaws.

All of this still doesn't answer the most puzzling question of WHY Steve Jobs chose to drive plate less.

And that's why the day Steve Jobs resign s as CEO of Apple isn't like the day a typical CEO resign s.

It is not clear what exactly it takes to produce a Steve Jobs, of course.

But Steve Jobs and a few others at Apple understood the economics of storage abundance.

Today Steve Jobs hit back, arguing those terms are just a "smokescreen" clouding the "real issue. "

In our view, CEO Elon Musk may be similar to Steve Jobs in being a technology visionary also able to manage and create shareholder value.

Steve Jobs was a visionary and a wonderful friend of The New York Times.

Steve Jobs gives almost as much thought to the cardboard boxes his gadgets come in as the products themselves.

But these days state aid, and how to dole it out, are nearly as hotly debated in online hangouts as cloud computing or Steve Jobs's health.

Give Steve Jobs as much authority as he wants in new product development.

It's unfair to say that Tim Cook isn't a proven big-picture technology visionary like Steve Jobs, because nobody is.

One of the mysteries surrounding Steve Jobs' decision to hand the CEO title over to Tim Cook is its timing.

The broad outpouring that has followed the death of Steve Jobs reminds me of the display of grief following Edison's death.

Apple wants to build a new corporate headquarters that, in Chief Executive Steve Jobs's own words, looks 'a little like a spaceship. '

Venus, the minimalist high-tech yacht commissioned by the late Apple founder Steve Jobs, has become embroiled in a row over a disputed bill.

So far, neither chief executive seems likely to repeat the spectacular second act of Steve Jobs at Apple.

Steve Jobs' creative vision was shaped (from his words) while backpacking across India.

But, make no mistake, once Steve Jobs is no longer with us, there will be an outpouring of emotion.

Now that Steve Jobs has handed over the reins to another, can Mark Zuckerberg take his place as the tech world's, forgive me, rock star?

But both me and my girlfriend had read the Steve Jobs book on the iPad and there was nothing he could add to that.

Some anecdotal evidence suggested that Apple enthusiasts may have been moved by the death of Steve Jobs to upgrade their existing phone.

Jack Ma might be the only man in China who could stand up against Steve Jobs.

Steve Jobs, Apple's boss, took sick leave in January and is not expected back at work until the end of June.

A lot of people seem to think that I created the blog out of some personal animus toward Steve Jobs.

In a purported email exchange published by a gossip blog, famously mercurial CEO Steve Jobs told an innocent journalism student to buzz off.

It is a country many admire as a place of hope and possibilities and opportunity, the land that created Steve Jobs and Jeremy Lin.

His latest monologue, "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, " is scheduled to open at the Public Theater on Tuesday.

Yes, you read that right: Apple wants to patent a stylus, the very thing Steve Jobs famously shunned when he unveiled the original iPhone.

A Twitter user named Matt Galligan wrote: "R. I. P. Steve Jobs. You touched an ugly world of technology and made it beautiful. "

What should CSR at Apple look like? I'm sure Steve Jobs has an answer to this question, but in case he doesn't, here are a few ideas.

He got little sympathy when he emailed to tell Steve Jobs of the situation.

Among the guests at Obama's dinner were then Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

"Steve Jobs is a genius. He is the exception to my rule, " he said.

As Steve Jobs has noted, trial and error has always been part of the Apple model.

When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 after a 12-year exile, the company was close to bankruptcy.

Steve Jobs did not waste his time or ours with similar flotsam.

In 1979, when Steve Jobs toured PARC, the researchers had already pioneered several technologies that would revolutionize computing forever.

"Steve Jobs" , the only authorized biography of the Apple co-founder, hit the Chinese book market at the end of October.

'Today the world lost one of its greatest innovators and visionaries with the passing of Steve Jobs.

We're here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here? --Steve Jobs.

If you want to be the next Steve Jobs and end the innovation stagnation, maybe you should start in hip-hop.

Steve Jobs decided to scrap this image because he felt that Wayne's logo was too cerebral and not easily reproduced at small sizes.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs, borrowing a line from Mark Twain to poke fun at an erroneous report of his death by Bloomberg News.

"People laugh at me when I say [the iPad] is magical, " Steve Jobs told the audience at the D8 conference.

Steve Jobs thanks for showing us the possibilities and now that you are gone we are learning so much from your wisdom and life.

Apple's share plummeted after Steve Jobs resigned as CEO of the company.

Apple (AAPL) has said time and time again that its CEO, Steve Jobs, will be back from his six-month medical leave at the end of June.

The site quotes industry source, which clearly points to Steve Jobs' health and a possible retirement.

When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, he himself found Apple's product lineup to be convoluted and ultimately too confusing.

In the case of Steve Jobs, it was not about cost cutting or exiting businesses.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs also has recently said that applications should let users 'know precisely what you're going to do with their data. '

He spoke eloquently that he is not a replacement for Steve Jobs, and we should not expect him to be the visionary that Jobs was.

People like Steve Jobs change our world. My sincere condolences to his loved ones and to everyone who admired his intellect and talent.

As you may have read, Steve Jobs resigned yesterday as CEO of Apple.

On Tuesday, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs said the suicides were 'very troubling to us' but also defended Hon Hai.

Last month Apple announced that its founder, CEO, and resident ninja Steve Jobs would be taking a medical leave of absence.

"The problem, really at the core, " he said, "is that Steve Jobs's inspiration is irreplaceable. "

But the choices are not always clear, even if you are taking advice from Bill Gates or Steve Jobs.

Let there be no question: ours would be a very different industry, were it not for Steve Jobs.

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs The manager through the rational allocation of resources, coordination, to achieve the organization's objectives.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the funeral for Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is being held Friday.

It may not have been the most sustainable leadership strategy, but of course, Steve Jobs bucked much of management conventional wisdom.

That year, Steve Wozniak returned to college and Steve Jobs left in a dispute with the chief executive.

To clarify, NeXT is the computer company Steve Jobs founded when he left Apple in 1988 (and before he came back to re-create Apple).

Hu Shuli, China's pioneering business journalist and editor, says the death of Steve Jobs got her thinking about her own legacy.

Steve Jobs' relationship with his biological father was, in a word, complicated.

But CEO Steve Jobs still managed to surprise his audience when he unveiled the multimedia device.

Steve Jobs was not involved in any of those projects. He had another one in mind, called Lisa.

In fact, any money Steve Jobs did pay in taxes likely prevented him from creating and sharing even more wealth.

Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, and Ralph Waldo Emerson (to name a few) were considered radical thinkers.

People keep asking who the next Steve Jobs will be, or who the last one was.

At least, that's the challenge for any company not run by Steve Jobs.

Apple already has sold more than 50 million iPhones so far world-wide, Chief Executive Steve Jobs said earlier this month.

So Steve Jobs must now fight hard to retain all the cultural elements that will keep his company as nimble as its competitors .

Steve Jobs is not the first public figure to seek answers outside conventional medical science.

Steve Jobs was a private person, but his insistence on privacy only fueled the cult of personality that surrounded him.

Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs's leave of absence spurred concern over the leadership of the world's second- biggest company.

You may have read about this in the Times obit for Steve Jobs.

The Telegraph recently published an interesting piece entitled, "What Bill Gates and Steve Jobs Really Think of Each other. "

With the death of Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs, the spotlight at Apple shifts to a successor years in the making: Tim Cook.

Steve Jobs at a Stanford commencement speech said that giving this speech the students was the closest thing he came to graduating college.

STEVE JOBS left the world a host of ingeniously designed products hailed as the closest things to man-made perfection.

After Steve Jobs' first departure from Apple in 1985, the company's stock slid while it endured a string of flops.

So even if his replacements do exactly what Steve Jobs would have done, it's still not Steve Jobs.

Over the past few months since his unfortunate passing, the media has consistently praised Steve Jobs for his many talents.

"The dots will not be connected when you start" to quote Steve Jobs at the Stanford University presentation.

Whatever your smartphone preference, whatever your choice of home pc, Steve Jobs had a hand in developing them all.

In the mind of Steve Jobs the entire incident had no downside, none at all, which is yet another reason why he is not like you or me.

Because Steve Jobs died at such a relatively young age (56) this is destined to be regarded as a classic.

Apple hit an all-time low in the mid 1990s, five years after its board ousted Steve Jobs from the company he cofounded.

I spend my life in front of a computer, and that life is better because of what Steve Jobs created.

The obvious comparison is Steve Jobs, who has been hit by various illnesses over the years, some of them quite serious.

Some Apple loyalists were simultaneously shocked and dejected upon hearing the news of Steve Jobs' resignation last week.

So it was no surprise that the death of Apple's visionary founder Steve Jobs was big news in China.

Like everyone else, I listened to Steve Jobs' Stanford commencement address and was moved and awed.

True, Steve Jobs, Apple's mercurial boss, has expressed scepticism about e-readers, claiming that "people don't read any more" .

Steve Jobs was simply the greatest CEO of his generation.

We're going to look at Steve Jobs' legacy both in terms of things and ideas.

Steve Jobs is in the running for two trophies: comeback of the decade and villain of the year.

One investor prodded Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook to see the play "The Agony And Ecstasy Of Steve Jobs. "

Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive, hailed what he called a "stunning opening weekend" for the new device.

Even as he got older, for three decades Steve Jobs and Apple remained "cool. "

Steve Jobs unveils the updated iPhone exclusively to those who really, really want to see it.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs was mistaken in portraying Blu-ray as a passing fad, says Blu-ray Disc Association chairman Andy Parsons.

The question now is whether that legacy of revolutionary products and ideas will continue without Steve Jobs at the helm.

A month later the Facebook cofounder and chief executive sat next to Obama at a dinner with other tech titans, including Apple's Steve Jobs.

Steve Jobs is the driving force behind the company.

Before Steve Jobs, did the word playlist even exist?

In part because Steve Jobs got pushed out by John Sculley in a way that's rare among technology companies.

Granted, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs is no fan of subscription music services.

Bill, this is Steve Jobs and I hear you are considering buying one of our NeXT computers.

It encapsulates the movement of technology from geek to chic that was a defining contribution of Steve Jobs' last decade at Apple.

The Journal reported that "in an email, [Steve Jobs wrote] 'I think it's hogwash' " and "an Apple spokesman declined to comment. "

A common criticism of Flash by Apple CEO Steve Jobs and his disciples is that Flash is slow, power hungry, unreliable and a security threat.

Apple, with Steve Jobs, has demonstrated a rare convergence of technology, market understanding, business process, and people.

Two college dropouts, Steve Jobs (Reed College) and Bill Gates (Harvard University) have articulated theories about education.

Isaacson eventually persuaded his publisher Simon &Schuster to go with the simple title of Steve Jobs.

Steve Jobs shows off the company's new $99 TV set-top box.

Steve Jobs believes the iPad is both "magical and revolutionary. " Others aren't so sure, at least, not yet.

Ma, to be sure, has become as publicly associated with his company as Steve Jobs or Bill Gates have with theirs.

Two years ago, when Steve Jobs left to get a liver transplant, Apple stock briefly fell about 5% or so.

Steve Jobs is a master of this, letting the anticipation build and then the big announcement.

Another key learning from this book is how Steve Jobs reinvented both himself and his company many times.

Google has basically become an extension of our brain, the epitome of Steve Jobs' "bicycle for our minds. "

But Steve Jobs' Californian design empire is unlikely to have the market all to itself for long.

Steve Jobs always looked at the big picture and was never distracted by details.

Steve Jobs came off an engine in the hey day of rock n'roll and he was a music junky.

Steve Jobs, Isaacson's biography makes clear, was a complicated and exhausting man.

No one wants to pry into Steve Jobs' health and everyone wishes him the best.

In contrast, Steve Jobs has not impressed on his succession planning.

One sign that Steve Jobs is back to his old self: He's already sniping at rivals.

Apple Inc founder and Chief Executive Steve Jobs said in a public letter Monday that his weight loss is caused by a hormone imbalance.

Not bad for a market Steve Jobs once wrote off with the remark, "people don't read anymore. "

Steve Jobs claimed that any network would have been overwhelmed by eager iPhone users, as AT& T's was.

Apple's two main rivals in Asia got a lift in their share price after Apple boss Steve Jobs stepped down.

But I figure $2, 000 is the minimum that Steve Jobs's new toy is going to cost me.

The instructor next gives the executives information they can use to drill down and get to the real nature of Steve Jobs's talent.

The instructor at a recent session asked the participants to explain Steve Jobs's distinguishing talent.

Was Steve Jobs a smart guy who made a stupid decision when it came to his health?

Apple co-founder and visionary Steve Jobs died yesterday at the age of 56.

Steve Jobs: Who do you think will be the main beneficiary of the web?

Making things simple and beautiful, that was the genius of Steve Jobs from the very start.

Steve Jobs once said a 7-inch screen is not sufficient to make a good tablet. Apple's current leadership may disagree.

Steve Jobs had given us some laptops, we were in Senegal.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs didn't just change the computer and entertainment industries. He also had a huge influence on automobiles.

Editorial board members Mary Kissel, Mary O'Grady and Bret Stephens discuss how Steve Jobs contributed to American prosperity.