http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Steve_JobsFind stories, videos, and photos about Steve Jobs from CNN.com.en-usCable News Network LP, LLLP.Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:09:10 GMT5http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gifhttp://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Steve_Jobs14433Find stories, videos, and photos about Steve Jobs from CNN.com.http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/09/apple.tablet.jobs/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/09/apple.tablet.jobs/index.html#cnnSTCTextIf you've only been half paying attention, you probably think that the Apple Tablet is a done deal.Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:22:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/11/04/technology/steve_jobs_books.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/11/04/technology/steve_jobs_books.fortune/index.htmOf all the pithy, pointed, and quotable sentences uttered about Steve Jobs during his three decades on the national scene, my favorite comes from an early Apple colleague: "He would have made an excellent king of France." Except even Louis XIV would envy the quantity of words spilled by two generations of journalists trying to tell us what King Steve is really like.Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:09:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/11/05/technology/moritz_little_kingdom.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/11/05/technology/moritz_little_kingdom.fortune/index.htmBack in the early '80s, when the Macintosh computer was little more than an idea, Mike Moritz, then a correspondent for Time, had unfettered access to Steve Jobs and a much smaller Apple Computer.Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:06:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/11/03/technology/steve_jobs_legacy.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/11/03/technology/steve_jobs_legacy.fortune/index.htmFirst and foremost, Steve Jobs is an entrepreneur. And that is how history will long remember him. Not primarily as a fiduciary or an institution builder or an administrator (though he has worn all those hats), but rather as an individual who relentlessly pursued new opportunities.Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:53:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/11/04/technology/steve_jobs_ceo_decade.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/11/04/technology/steve_jobs_ceo_decade.fortune/index.htmHow's this for a gripping corporate story line: Youthful founder gets booted from his company in the 1980s, returns in the 1990s, and in the following decade survives two brushes with death, one securities-law scandal, an also-ran product lineup, and his own often unpleasant demeanor to become the dominant personality in four distinct industries, a billionaire many times over, and CEO of the most valuable company in Silicon Valley.Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:13:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/09/apple.music.event.jobs/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/09/apple.music.event.jobs/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe rumored Beatles songs were a no-show, but Steve Jobs -- Apple's own rock star -- is back.Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:48:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/09/09/technology/apple_event_ipod/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/09/09/technology/apple_event_ipod/index.htmApple Chief Executive Steve Jobs announced several new products in a keynote address at a company event in San Francisco on Wednesday, making his first appearance at an Apple event in nearly a year.Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:50:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/08/18/smallbusiness/whiz_kid_myth_entrepreneurs.fsb/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/08/18/smallbusiness/whiz_kid_myth_entrepreneurs.fsb/index.htmBill Gates. Steve Jobs. FedEx's Fred Smith. The image of the entrepreneur as whiz kid has serious currency in American business lore. But according to a new study from the Kauffman Foundation, a Kansas City think tank that studies entrepreneurship, that image is a myth.Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:30:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/06/29/steve.jobs.health.work/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/06/29/steve.jobs.health.work/index.html#cnnSTCTextApple CEO Steve Jobs is back on the job after a six-month medical leave, the company said Monday.Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:18:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/24/liver.transplant.priority.lists/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/24/liver.transplant.priority.lists/index.html#cnnSTCTextThis week it was reported that Steve Jobs, the CEO and cofounder of Apple, underwent a liver transplant two months ago. One detail concerning Jobs's transplant seemed odd: The surgery took place at a hospital in Tennessee, some 2,000 miles from Jobs' home in northern California. Why Tennessee?Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:41:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/23/steve.jobs.liver.transplant/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/23/steve.jobs.liver.transplant/index.html#cnnSTCTextApple CEO Steve Jobs is recovering after undergoing a liver transplant at Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in Memphis, Tennessee, the institute's program director said Tuesday.Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:43:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/06/22/steve.jobs.apple.return/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/06/22/steve.jobs.apple.return/index.html#cnnSTCTextApple is known for building excitement over its latest gadgets, but the company's next closely watched event has nothing to do with a product. Instead, anticipation is growing over the scheduled return of Apple's charismatic CEO.Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:55:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/04/30/technology/kowitt_no2.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/04/30/technology/kowitt_no2.fortune/index.htmLast year when Apple CEO Steve Jobs showed visible signs of illness at public speaking events, the company's stock began to gyrate unpredictably. When Jobs unexpectedly spoke on the company's fourth-quarter earnings call, the stock rose 12% in part because he simply showed up. When he canceled his MacWorld appearance, Apple shares plunged 7%. Investors worried that Jobs might step down. Could anyone replace him?Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/01/22/technology/stevejobs_disclosure.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/01/22/technology/stevejobs_disclosure.fortune/index.htmApple and its CEO-on-leave-but-still-active-sort-of Steve Jobs practically forced the Securities and Exchange Commission to look into the adequacy of the company¹s disclosures about Jobs's medical problems. But the investigation may have less to do with Jobs's health than with the SEC's.Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:02:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/01/15/technology/lashinsky_jobs.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/01/15/technology/lashinsky_jobs.fortune/index.htmWhen we put Tim Cook on the cover of Fortune two months ago, shining a spotlight on the powerful, behind-the-scenes executive who labors in the shadow of a larger-than-life CEO, we posited that should Cook ever assume the top job from Steve Jobs: "Apple may not suffer from acute Stevelessness as much as the world seems to think."Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:50:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/01/16/news/companies/parloff_disclosure.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/01/16/news/companies/parloff_disclosure.fortune/index.htm"We're all very saddened by the latest news and extend to Steve Jobs our profoundest best wishes, but ..."Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:29:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/01/15/technology/valley_jobs.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/01/15/technology/valley_jobs.fortune/index.htmA day after Steve Jobs announced he would take a medical leave of absence, the Apple CEO's Silicon Valley colleagues are first and foremost wishing him well. There seems to be a consensus that Jobs has disclosed what he needs to, and that in the short-term, at least, the details of his health are a private matter.Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:49:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/01/15/news/companies/jobs_disclosure.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/01/15/news/companies/jobs_disclosure.fortune/index.htmThe ongoing saga of Steve Jobs' health has been, to put it mildly, a soap opera.Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:56:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/01/14/technology/apple_jobs/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/01/14/technology/apple_jobs/index.htmApple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs said Wednesday he will take a leave of absence from the computer and music-player maker because of health issues.Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:10:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/05/steve.jobs.hormones/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/05/steve.jobs.hormones/index.html#cnnSTCTextAs Apple enthusiasts speculate over why pancreatic cancer survivor Steve Jobs won't appear at Macworld Conference & Expo this year, the CEO asks them to think differently about his health.Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:57:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/01/05/apple.steve.jobs.health/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/01/05/apple.steve.jobs.health/index.html#cnnSTCTextAfter months of speculation about his health, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced Monday that his doctors believe a hormonal imbalance is to blame for his alarming weight loss.Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:11:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/01/05/news/companies/steve_jobs/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/01/05/news/companies/steve_jobs/index.htmApple Chief Executive Steve Jobs said Monday that doctors may have discovered the cause of the weight loss that has caused speculation about his health, adding that he will continue to serve as the computer maker's chief executive.Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:44:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/01/05/apple.macworld/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/01/05/apple.macworld/index.html#cnnSTCTextEven though CEO Steve Jobs will not be playing his customary role, the last Macworld Expo with Apple's participation will still be interesting -- for perhaps that exact reason.Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:50:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2008/12/19/technology/fortt_tech_ceos.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2008/12/19/technology/fortt_tech_ceos.fortune/index.htmWhere have all the high-flying tech CEOs gone?Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:47:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/12/17/apple.macworld/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/12/17/apple.macworld/index.html#cnnSTCTextWith its decision to end its relationship with the Macworld Expo, Apple is cutting one of its last ties to an era in which it wasn't a technology powerhouse.Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:50:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2008/11/09/technology/cook_apple.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2008/11/09/technology/cook_apple.fortune/index.htmLet's start with some uncomfortable truths. We wouldn't be publishing an article about the under-the-radar guy who's most likely to succeed Steve Jobs as chief executive of Apple if Jobs himself hadn't shown up at a company event in San Francisco in June looking frightfully skinny and pale.Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:25:00 ESThttp://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1843813,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1843813,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsThe new open-platform, third-party-developer-friendly Google Phone may spell the downfall of Apple's iPhone. Does this sound familiar?Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:00:00 EDThttp://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1840079,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1840079,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsDespite rumors of illness, the Apple chief appeared in good health at his San Francisco press event -- but his software could sure use some workTue, 09 Sep 2008 22:00:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2008/09/09/technology/apple_announcement.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2008/09/09/technology/apple_announcement.fortune/index.htmApple, the consumer electronics giant, on Tuesday rolled out new versions of its popular iPod music player, but failed to deliver the surprises that finicky investors have come to expect.Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:29:00 EDThttp://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1839990,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1839990,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsApple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs took the wraps off a revamped line of iPods on Tuesday and trumpeted a truce with NBC Universal that means the TV network will begin selling programs again on iTunesTue, 09 Sep 2008 19:00:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2008/06/09/technology/applekeynote.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2008/06/09/technology/applekeynote.fortune/index.htmApple announced on Monday a much faster iPhone that's half the price of the current model.Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:37:00 EDThttp://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1813117,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1813117,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsThe iPhone 3G is cheaper, faster and better. It's also one of the riskiest business moves Apple has ever madeTue, 10 Jun 2008 12:00:00 EDThttp://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1812954,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1812954,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsSteve Jobs unveils Apple's latest incarnation of its revolutionary device, with a fanfare that seems justifiedMon, 09 Jun 2008 21:00:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2008/03/02/news/companies/elkind_jobs.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2008/03/02/news/companies/elkind_jobs.fortune/index.htmIn October 2003, as the computer world buzzed about what cool new gadget he would introduce next, Apple CEO Steve Jobs - then presiding over the most dramatic corporate turnaround in the history of Silicon Valley - found himself confronting a life-and-death decision.Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:03:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2008/01/15/technology/apple_macworld.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2008/01/15/technology/apple_macworld.fortune/index.htmApple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs unveiled movie rentals from iTunes, a superthin notebook computer and new software for the iPhone and iPod iTouch at his Macworld presentation in San Francisco on Tuesday.Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:24:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2007/11/21/news/newsmakers/power_jobs.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2007/11/21/news/newsmakers/power_jobs.fortune/index.htmManagement guru Jim Collins once called Steve Jobs the "Beethoven of business." He was marveling at the Apple founder's ability, time and again, to conjure digital objects of desire from esoteric blends of chips, disks, plastic, and software, and then promote them with his own alluring brand of performance art. But Jobs might also be called its Machiavelli, a man who can bend suppliers, partners, and even industries to his will.Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:42:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2007/09/20/technology/jobs/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2007/09/20/technology/jobs/index.htmApple CEO Steve Jobs has been subpoenaed by the Securities and Exchange Commission to give a deposition in a stock-options backdating case against Apple's former general counsel, a person familiar with the case told The Associated Press Thursday.Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:27:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2007/06/08/magazines/business2/unconferences.biz2/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2007/06/08/magazines/business2/unconferences.biz2/index.htmIt was a match made in geek heaven: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates together on the same stage for the first time in twenty years. And the audience, 500 of them, had paid $4,000 for the privilege of seeing it all.Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:25:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2007/04/25/technology/apple/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2007/04/25/technology/apple/index.htmSix Apple board members issued a statement of confidence Wednesday in the Securities and Exchange Commission's investigation's conclusion of a stock options probe into Apple, as well as CEO Steve Jobs' "integrity and ability to lead."Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:14:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2007/04/24/news/newsmakers/anderson_statement/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2007/04/24/news/newsmakers/anderson_statement/index.htmThe following statement is attributed to Mr. Fred Anderson's attorney Jerome Roth, a partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in San Francisco.Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:45:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/03/19/8402321/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/03/19/8402321/index.htm"Sorry Steve, Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work," BusinessWeek wrote with great certainty in 2001. "It's desperation time in Cupertino, Calif.," opined TheStreet.com. "I give [Apple] two years bef... Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:56:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/03/19/8402336/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/03/19/8402336/index.htmThe business of booking after-dinner speakers for corporate events was once straightforward: A few established agencies - like the Washington Speakers Bureau, whose clients include Colin Powell, Al... Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:03:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/03/19/8402325/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/03/19/8402325/index.htmDid Steve Jobs backdate the options he got as Apple's CEO? I doubt it, based on the evidence I've seen, though the company admits it backdated some other employees' options. Seems to me what he rea... Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:30:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2007/02/07/commentary/mediabiz/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2007/02/07/commentary/mediabiz/index.htmThe music business is in a funk. Everybody knows that.Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:27:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/01/22/8397968/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/01/22/8397968/index.htmWhen Apple Computer disclosed on Dec. 29 the results of its own internal investigation into whether CEO Steve Jobs engaged in options-timing irregularities, the probe, conducted by a special commit... Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:20:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2007/01/05/technology/ces_walkup/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2007/01/05/technology/ces_walkup/index.htmFor the digerati, the annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas is about to begin.Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:10:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2006/12/29/technology/apple_jobs/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2006/12/29/technology/apple_jobs/index.htmApple Computer disclosed in a regulatory filing Friday that Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs was aware that some stock options granted to him and other executives at Apple between 1997 and 2002 were backdated and that the company was restating financial results for the past few years as a result of the backdating.Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:03:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2006/12/28/technology/apple_jobs/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2006/12/28/technology/apple_jobs/index.htmInvestors expressed concern Thursday regarding the latest reports about options grants made to Apple Computer's enigmatic chief executive officer Steve Jobs.Thu, 28 Dec 2006 16:16:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2006/09/12/technology/apple_biz2.0.biz2/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2006/09/12/technology/apple_biz2.0.biz2/index.htmPlenty of the usual "oohs" and "aahs" to go around when Apple Computer took the wraps off its movie download strategy Tuesday, but the iPod maker might have a harder time dominating digital movies than it has had ruling digital music.Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:08:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/03/06/8370610/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/03/06/8370610/index.htmSteve Jobs helped save the music biz from file sharers like Shawn Fanning and Wayne Rosso. Now Fanning and Rosso--the creator of Napster and former president of Grokster, respectively--want to save... Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:52:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/02/20/8369108/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/02/20/8369108/index.htmSince Steve Jobs agreed to sell Pixar to Disney for $7.4 billion, speculation has abounded about his motives, in particular whether he is plotting someday to vie for the crown now worn by Disney CE... Wed, 08 Feb 2006 16:36:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2005/10/31/news/midcaps/pixar_disney/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2005/10/31/news/midcaps/pixar_disney/index.htmSteve Jobs, the chairman and CEO of Pixar Animation Studios, would be open to a sale of the company at the right price, according to a published report.Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:25:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/10/31/8359167/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/10/31/8359167/index.htm"THERE'S JUST ONE MORE THING," SAYS Steve Jobs, as he does near the end of most Apple product launches. The phrase delights the Mac faithful in the audience in San Jose because they have come to be...Mon, 31 Oct 2005 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2005/07/06/news/newsmakers/stevejobs_ipod/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2005/07/06/news/newsmakers/stevejobs_ipod/index.htmApple Computer CEO Steve Jobs personally called the family of a 15-year-old New Yorker to offer his condolences after the teenager was killed last week during a fight over an iPod, according to a report published Wednesday.Wed, 06 Jul 2005 10:54:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2005/04/01/8256057/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2005/04/01/8256057/index.htmSilicon Valley guards its corporate secrets the way a mother grizzly guards her cubs. And when it comes to keeping a lid on information, Steve Jobs is the fiercest bear around. When Jobs returned t...Fri, 01 Apr 2005 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/03/21/8254842/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/03/21/8254842/index.htmComputers, health care, and environmental engineering are hot now. But what was hot then? Over the three-quarters of a century that FORTUNE has been chronicling the world of big business, each deca...Mon, 21 Mar 2005 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/08/23/379379/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/08/23/379379/index.htmThe fact that Apple chief Steve Jobs will be sitting out the month of August to recover from surgery to remove a small, cancerous tumor has prompted more than meditations on his mortality. It has a...Mon, 23 Aug 2004 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2004/08/05/real_estate/ultimateteardowns/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2004/08/05/real_estate/ultimateteardowns/index.htmSteve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer, owns a home in Woodside, Calif. that most people would consider a pretty decent place to live.Thu, 05 Aug 2004 14:11:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2004/08/02/technology/apple/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2004/08/02/technology/apple/index.htmApple investors have already been through a period without CEO Steve Jobs at the helm and that didn't turn out too well.Mon, 02 Aug 2004 16:12:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/04/16/jobs/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/04/16/jobs/index.htmlSteve Jobs helped create a Silicon Valley icon and, along the way, garnered a reputation as a charismatic yet mercurial visionary.Fri, 16 Apr 2004 16:11:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/02/23/362197/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/02/23/362197/index.htmMachiavellian minds see the recent Pixar-Disney brouhaha--when Steve Jobs abruptly abandoned talks to extend the animation boutique's partnership with the venerable Hollywood studio--as much more ...Mon, 23 Feb 2004 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2003/09/01/350784/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2003/09/01/350784/index.htmFor as long as the California garage has housed convertibles, it has also fotered a different type of vehicle: innovation. Although Hugh Hefner started at his card table and Tom Golisano in his old...Mon, 01 Sep 2003 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/06/09/343943/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/06/09/343943/index.htmThis is almost embarrassing, but I actually want to say really nice things about someone: Steve Jobs, CEO simultaneously of Apple Computer and Pixar Animation Studios. Mon, 09 Jun 2003 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/05/28/303879/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/05/28/303879/index.htmMoney lust, skullduggery, comedy, mystery--these are the things I like to read about, same as everybody else. That's one reason, besides the shad and asparagus, that I love this time of year: It's ...Mon, 28 May 2001 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/05/14/302936/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/05/14/302936/index.htmIt seemed like deja vu all over again. Reverting to its Perils of Pauline mode, Apple Computer late last September fessed up that sales of its glossy, curvaceous personal computers were running off...Mon, 14 May 2001 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/12/07/252117/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/12/07/252117/index.htmWhen it comes to desktop computers, Steve Jobs has it right. Apple has been running ads touting its stylish new iMac with the slogan "Sorry, no beige." The innards of desktop Windows PCs vary, but ...Mon, 07 Dec 1998 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/12/07/252123/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/12/07/252123/index.htmHere in the hinterlands of Oregon, in the middle of a wind-swept wheat field, twirls a crazed dervish of a man in cutoff jeans and a tie-dyed T-shirt. It's Steve Jobs, ecstatically "conducting" the...Mon, 07 Dec 1998 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/11/09/250880/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/11/09/250880/index.htmWell into the conversation with FORTUNE that you're about to read, Steve Jobs, the once and interim CEO of Apple Computer, professes to feel, at the wizened age of 43, no different from when he was...Mon, 09 Nov 1998 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/11/09/250834/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/11/09/250834/index.htmA 50-foot photo of Cesar Chavez looked down from one side of the hall. John and Yoko loomed over the other, and the Grateful Dead's "Candyman" echoed from the loudspeakers. Balloons bounced through...Mon, 09 Nov 1998 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/06/22/244141/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/06/22/244141/index.htmNyaah-nyaah. Mon, 22 Jun 1998 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/04/27/241471/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/04/27/241471/index.htmBill Gates and Andy Grove have the right idea about corporate chieftains authoring first-person accounts: Play it safe. Gates "wrote" the ineffably boring The Road Ahead; Grove, in books and magazi...Mon, 27 Apr 1998 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/12/08/234908/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/12/08/234908/index.htmSteve Jobs never tires of reminding people that he is a busy guy, what with his responsibilities at animation house Pixar and his masterminding Apple's every move, such as the "Think Different" ad ...Mon, 08 Dec 1997 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/09/08/230846/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/09/08/230846/index.htmLet me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are tru...Mon, 08 Sep 1997 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/03/03/222710/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/03/03/222710/index.htmHere we go again. Apple Computer, Silicon Valley's paragon of dysfunctional management and fumbled techno-dreams, is back in crisis mode, scrambling lugubriously in slow motion to deal with implodi...Mon, 03 Mar 1997 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/03/04/210053/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/03/04/210053/index.htmIMAGINE YOURSELF living 100 years ago on Detroit's Bagley Avenue. It's 2 a.m. on June 4, 1896, and the sound of steel striking stone has drawn you out of bed and into the night. The noise and puffs...Mon, 04 Mar 1996 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/09/18/206099/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/09/18/206099/index.htmABOUT A DOZEN years ago, way back when Steve Jobs still ran Apple Computer, an irreverent underling first used the expression "reality distortion field'' to describe the beguilingly rosy scenarios ...Mon, 18 Sep 1995 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/03/06/201773/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/03/06/201773/index.htmAs expected, animation mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg was nowhere to be found when Michael Eisner pitched a tent in the middle of New York's Central Park recently to give the entertainment press a sneak ...Mon, 06 Mar 1995 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/02/07/78924/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/02/07/78924/index.htmRandall Stross is one reporter who's apparently unimpressed by Steve Jobs' famously infectious charm -- perhaps because he couldn't land an interview with the guy. Next Computer, the company Jobs l...Mon, 07 Feb 1994 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/10/18/78470/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/10/18/78470/index.htmONE FALL afternoon in the late 1980s in a glass-walled conference room at Next Computer's California headquarters, Steven Jobs, five other company founders, and a smattering of employees met to rev...Mon, 18 Oct 1993 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/03/08/77620/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/03/08/77620/index.htmSteve Jobs is officially out of the computer hardware business. The announcement that his Next Computer is shutting down the high-tech factory that made its elegant workstation came as no surprise ...Mon, 08 Mar 1993 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/02/08/77435/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/02/08/77435/index.htmSOMETIMES it's hard to tell whether Steve Jobs is a snake-oil salesman or a bona fide visionary, a promoter who got lucky or the epitome of the intrepid entrepreneur. What's indisputable is that he...Mon, 08 Feb 1993 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/03/23/76198/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/03/23/76198/index.htmMOST MEN AND WOMEN elected to the National Business Hall of Fame are giant- killers. They have battled a powerful ethos or an entrenched institution and prevailed. Mere contrarians -- those who def...Mon, 23 Mar 1992 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/08/26/75409/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/08/26/75409/index.htmThe two college dropouts most responsible for unleashing the PC revolution rarely see each other anymore, though they say that they're still friends. At FORTUNE's invitation, Bill Gates and Steve J...Mon, 26 Aug 1991 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/05/06/74965/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/05/06/74965/index.htmApple founder Steve Jobs has had plenty to celebrate lately. It looks as if sales for his new Next computer will top $100 million in 1991, and in mid- March he married for the first time. A little-...Mon, 06 May 1991 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/10/08/74184/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/10/08/74184/index.htmEven irrepressible Steve Jobs admits the stylish $10,000 computer workstation that his Next company got to the market a year ago is a slow starter: Only 10,000 have been shipped so far. The problem...Mon, 08 Oct 1990 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/03/26/73326/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/03/26/73326/index.htmWhen you contemplate the future of the computer industry, I think it raises another question: Will there even be a U.S. computer industry ten years from now? I'd say the odds are only fifty-fifty. ...Mon, 26 Mar 1990 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/02/26/73121/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/02/26/73121/index.htmWelcome to the Next world. Here a robot that looks like a futuristic sewing machine places tiny capacitors and integrated circuits, rapid-fire, on a printed computer circuitboard. A laser zeros in ...Mon, 26 Feb 1990 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/10/09/72589/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/10/09/72589/index.htmENTREPRENEURS/Cover Story 48 HOW STEVE JOBS LINKED UP WITH IBM The alliance that is rocking the computer industry started at publisher Kay Graham's 70th-birthday gala two years ago. Jobs met IBM CE...Mon, 09 Oct 1989 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/07/17/72264/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/07/17/72264/index.htmSteve Jobs is one popular guy, especially in Asia. Canon, the Japanese electronics big gun, proved just how popular when in June it paid $100 million for one-sixth of Jobs's young computer company,...Mon, 17 Jul 1989 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/05/08/71953/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/05/08/71953/index.htmSteve Jobs, Apple's old boss (at 34), is chasing the same customers as his former colleagues. For Jobs that represents a strategic shift as neck- wrenching as Apple's own. In May his new company, N...Mon, 08 May 1989 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/11/07/71260/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/11/07/71260/index.htm''I'm a little nervous,'' confessed Steven P. Jobs to a packed San Francisco symphony hall where he unveiled his new computer. The powerful, playful (it can recreate the sound of a symphony orchest...Mon, 07 Nov 1988 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/05/23/70568/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/05/23/70568/index.htmCAN STEVE JOBS dazzle the world again with a new computer? Come summertime, we may know the answer. Since 1985 the man who started Apple Computer and quit in a huff nine years later has been cloist...Mon, 23 May 1988 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/08/31/69486/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/08/31/69486/index.htmWHAT IS THE BEST way for a board of directors to fire a company's chief executive officer? That's easy: quick, quiet, and cheap. In this imperfect world, though, it rarely works that way. Allegheny...Mon, 31 Aug 1987 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/03/02/68751/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/03/02/68751/index.htmApple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs, who was pushed out at the ripe age of 30, reflects on what he has learned about himself and his management that he can apply to his new computer company, NeXT ...Mon, 02 Mar 1987 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/09/02/66416/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/09/02/66416/index.htmResponding to slow sales of the Macintosh and to pressure from the board, Apple Computer Chief Executive John Sculley stripped chairman and co-founder Steven Jobs of all operating authority -- leav...Mon, 02 Sep 1985 04:01:00 EDT