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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ThickButtons 0.6 released, dynamically resizes your virtual ...

When Steve Jobs first walked on stage and demonstrated the revolutionary touchscreen iPhone, I — BlackBerry boy that I was — was extremely skeptical of the virtual keyboard. I didn't see how I'd be able to type efficiently without the true haptic feedback of my thumbs pressing down against ... - read more at Geek.com

tags: BlackBerry

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Steve Jobs Replies: No, iPad Won't Support Picasa

Steve Jobs seemingly elected to reply to another question sent to his SJobs [at] apple.com email address yesterday, this time in response to a question about support for Google's Picasa photo sharing service on the iPad:In short: no, the iPad won't support Picasa albums or face recognition … and ... - read more at Mashable

tags: Apple Google

14 hours:

Eric Ries: The New Startup Arms Race

There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the high-tech world of Silicon Valley, where I live, to University R&D; labs, to countless Main Street small business owners, Americans are taking risks, embracing new ideas and -- most importantly -- creating ... - read more at Huffington Post

tags: Apple eBay Google Yahoo Facebook Passageways Inc Mark Zuckerberg

16 hours:

Be smart, don't buy into the iPad hype

By Joe Wilcox, Betanews The state of the news media is this: Gossip and rumors are rapidly replacing factual reporting -- in large part driven by the Google economy. No company is benefitting more than Apple, and most recently with the launch of iPad. But rumors are no surefire way to sales success. ... - read more at Beta News

tags: Apple Google Microsoft Bill Gates

17 hours:

Steve Jobs Offers Up Another One Line Email Response

Steve Jobs has replied to an email regarding Picasa Albums on the iPad. - read more at iClarified

18 hours:

Steve Jobs and Flash Get Personal

Comments - read more at Hacker News

18 hours:

Apple preps 2010 school field trips

Filed under: Education Apple, through the Apple II, served as the gateway to computing for me; my third grade classroom had two Apple IIs neatly tucked away in metallic lock cases. With them, I was exposed to word processing, printing and, most importantly, Carmen Sandiego. Education is deeply ingrained ... - read more at Tauw.com

tags: Apple

19 hours:

Sent from Steve Jobs' iPhone: No Google Picasa Support for iPad

Once again 9to5Mac reports on Steve Jobs answering Apple users' questions, this time regarding iPad support for Google's Picasa. The question: …Are there any plans to support Picasa's faces and albums in iTunes, so I can take full advantage of the [iPad] Photos application, since Photoshop Album ... - read more at The iPhone Blog

tags: Google Apple

20 hours:

Another SJobs@apple.com email, this time dissing Google's Picassa

A UK reader writes in to say that Steve Jobs has replied to his email regarding Picasa Albums on the iPad. Instead of just telling him that Apple (obviously) wouldn't support Google's Picassa library format, Jobs told him that iPhoto had "much better Faces and Places features" than Picassa. I won't ... - read more at 9to5 Mac

tags: Google Apple

21 hours:

Siruis XM Fans are a Charitable Bunch, Poll Says

Fans of Howard Stern and Sirius XM Radio would pay $1 million to lunch with the shock jock. Fans of Warren Buffett, Steve Jobs or Tiger Woods? Not so much, according to a recent poll of TheStreet. - read more at TheStreet.com

tags: Tiger Woods

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