Steve Jobs

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Name:

Steve Jobs

Industries:

Media | Technology

2008 Compensation:

Roles:

CEO and Founder: Apple Inc.

CEO: Apple Computer International Ltd.

Board Member: The Walt Disney Company

Steve Jobs is the CEO of Apple, which he co-founded in 1976. Apple leads the industry in innovation with its award-winning Macintosh computers, OS X operating system, and consumer and professional applications software. Apple is also leading the digital music revolution, having sold more than 200 million iPods and over eight billion songs from its iTunes online store. Apple has also entered the mobile phone market with its revolutionary iPhone.

Steve also co-founded Pixar Animation Studios, which has created eight of the most successful and beloved animated films of all time: Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars and Ratatouille. Pixar has won 20 Academy Awards and its films have grossed more than $4 billion at the worldwide box office to date. Pixar merged with The Walt Disney Company in 2006 and Steve now serves on Disney's board of directors.

Steve grew up in the apricot orchards which later became known as Silicon Valley, and still lives there with his wife and three children.

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Today in Most Innovative Companies

Daily news of note from our Most Innovative Companies, including Apple, Nokia, and Google. Apple: Most of you probably caught a glimpse during the Oscars of the dozen ways you can hold an iPad, and I'm sure many of you were excited to find out that the tablet will ship April 3, with pre-orders beginning ... - read more at FastCompany

tags: Apple Google NY Times Sergey Brin

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Former Sun CEO: Steve Jobs threatened to sue us over patents ...

Former chief executive of Sun Jonathan Schwartz has accused Steve Jobs of threatening patent action against his company in 2003, related to desktop OS technologies, in a long blog post that highlights a series of tech patent squabbles. - read more at AppleInsider

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Ex-Sun chief dishes dirt on Gates, Jobs

Don't expect Jonathan Schwartz to go quietly. The former CEO of Sun Microsystems has taken to his personal blog, provocatively titled "What I couldn't say...," to dish some industry dirt and tell his side of the story about the demise of Sun. He has already hinted at plans to write a book, and a new ... - read more at The Industry Standard

tags: Sun Gates Apple Google Microsoft Oracle Steve Ballmer Jonathan Schwartz

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Former Sun CEO claims Jobs threatened lawsuit in 2003

Former Sun CEO and president Jonathan Schwartz claims to have received a lawsuit threat several years ago from Apple CEO Steve Jobs. After Schwartz unveiled the prototype Linux desktop titled Project Looking Glass in 2003, Jobs allegedly called personally to notify Sun that its graphical effects were ... - read more at Electronista

tags: Sun Apple Jonathan Schwartz

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Former Sun CEO says Apple's Jobs threatened to sue

The former chief executive of Sun Microsystems writes on his personal blog that Apple CEO Steve Jobs once threatened to sue the company in 2003. - read more at Market Watch

tags: Apple Sun

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What We're Reading: Barbie, Steve Jobs and Carly Fiorina

Our daily roundup of Web gems includes a deeper look at Barbie the engineer, Carly Fiorina's tenure at Hewlett-Packard, Jonathan Schwartz's battles with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and a pricing glitch at Amazon.com. - read more at New York Times - Technology

tags: Amazon.com Hewlett-Packard Bill Gates

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The rise and fall of iTunes LP (cue dramatic music)

Exciting news about Apple's iTunes LP: apparently it's a bit of a bust! The fine folks at GigaOM had the foresight to talk to people in the music industry to ask them, six months on, how's iTunes LP doing? Not so great, is the answer. What went wrong? The first shocking revelation: iTunes LP wasn't ... - read more at CrunchGear

tags: Apple

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Larry Magid: Will new Cisco router really "forever change the ...

A Cisco subsidiary offers Internet and networking routers starting at under $50 and those Linksys devices are really good at distributing data around a home or office. But companies that are in the business of distributing data within the Internet infrastructure and between Internet service providers ... - read more at Huffington Post

tags: Cisco Apple AT&T Google FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski CEO John Chambers

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Steve Jobs' Unknown Threatening Phone Call [Blockquote]

According to Jonathan Schwartz- then Sun's CEO- that's what Steve Jobs told him over the phone after Sun presented Looking Glass, a desktop concept similar to Mac OS X's. After that, Schwartz verbally cockpunched His Steveness and shut him up: More » - read more at Gizmodo

tags: Mac Sun Jonathan Schwartz

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Hedge Funds Bet on Steve Jobs' Next Move

So here we are. Apple is at all time highs. The stock is up another $5 today. The Apple/QQQQ slingshot trade has generated huge returns. We're waiting to sell until Apple moves against the market to the downside. But what is really going on here? This stock action certainly isn't happening because mainstreaminvestors ... - read more at SeekingAlpha.com

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