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Hanna Anderson

Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO, stunning tech world - San Jose Mercury News - 0 views

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  • bs, who built Apple
Chozen Takei

Steve Jobs: American Genius - The Daily Beast - 0 views

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Apple Steve Jobs

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  • Exit the King
  • How did Steve Jobs become a wizard among muggles? And what will Apple do without its willful inspiration at the helm?
  • showman who knew how to end on a high note
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  • Steve Jobs announced to the world last week that “unfortunately, that day has come” for him to step down as chief executive officer of Apple,
  • impeccable.
  • 14 years since Jobs regained control of his company in the summer of 1997 after a long, bitter exile
  • Apple shares have increased a stunning 110-fold
  • surpassed rival Microsoft a year ago, Apple’s $350 billion in market capitalization places it behind only ExxonMobil
  • most valuable company in the world.
  • Apple has made money so quickly and so prodigiously that it holds an outrageous $76 billion in cash and investments
  • graduate students at the University of Wisconsin, Madison: Abdulfattah Jandali, a Syrian immigrant
  • In his second time around at Apple, Jobs ultimately achieved what had eluded him in his early years there, from 1976 to 1985
  • visionary and a brilliant promoter but wasn’t respected as a businessman
  • Now Jobs, 56, retires,
  • awesome sum thought to be parked in an obscure subsidiary,
  • Jobs didn’t just create products that instilled lust in consumers and enriched his company.
  • Personal computing. The music business. Publishing. Hollywood. All have been radically transformed because of Steve Jobs.
  • It’s impossible to begin to understand the sources of Jobs’s success without looking to his unusual life story.
  • like the fictional Harry Potter, he was a misfit, raised by adoptive parents
  • Bill Gates as the most highly regarded business figure of our times
  • doctorate in political science
  • He was adopted at birth by Paul and Clara Jobs of San Francisco.
  • his constant risk taking, his rare deal-making ability
  • icrosoft’s Bill Gates and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg.
  • “dropout”
  • drop-in”:
  • leftist artsy intellectualism, even though he knew his parents couldn’t—and wouldn’t—pick up the tab.
  • That’s how strongly he wanted to be at an elite school and obtain its validation that he was indeed a wizard rather than a muggle. And that’s how good he was at persuasion and dealmaking—and how open to real risk.
  • fruitarian” diet that left him constantly hungry.
  • Chozen Takei on 29 Aug 11
     
    Steve Jobs changed the world, and his company is one of the best in the world. He retired at the age of 56, and now he is chairman of Apple, not the executive manager.
Hanna Anderson

Steve Jobs: 'Unfortunately, That Day Has Come' - BusinessWeek - 0 views

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  • surgery for pancreatic cancer in 2004, Steve Jobs has dismissed questions about his health as irrelevant.
  • Jobs said that he would know if or when he was unable to fully execute his duties as Apple’s (AAPL) chief executive officer. “Unfortunately, that day has come,”
  • Jobs’s past 14 years as CEO have been unprecedented
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  • the company he co-founded at the age of 21,
  • s an oracle, Jobs, 56, is irreplaceable
lin ping

MacBook Air posts on CNET - 0 views

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  • Steve Jobs and his departure as the CEO of Apple, and rightfully so. Jobs is a hugely influential figure, and his products have had an unmeasurable impact on mobile phones
  • MacBook line of laptops has managed to be both contrarian and influential at the same tim
  • in 2006, with the MacBook Pro announced in January of that year
Hye Rin Bae

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Ssangyong launch new bid to grow its UK dealer network

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  • Revived brand Ssangyong is launching a new bid to grow its UK dealer network.
  • Recently formed Ssangyong Motor UK, now responsible for importing the Korean brand, is looking to boost its current 50 outlets to 65 by the end of the year.
  • By the end of 2013, the brand expects to have 85 dealers in the UK.
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  • Ssangyong has been absent from the UK network for two years
  • but with new backing and a new model in the Korando crossover (pictured), Ssangyong Motor UK CEO Paul Williams believes the brand offers a great franchise opportunity for a range of dealers.
  • conglomerate
  • margins
  • Newly-appointed Marketing Director Steve Gray, previously with Chrysler Jeep for many years, says that a Ssangyong franchise is a tremendous opportunity.
  • franchises
  • dubbing
  • onerous
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