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When Steve Jobs Met Tim Cook
blogs.wsj.com - 1/15/2009
When Steve Jobs Met Tim Cook
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A recruiter recalls the first meeting beteween Steve Jobs and Tim Cook in 1998.

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— bloomberg.com — Apple’s Jobs Said to Be Considering Liver Transplant (Update1) By Connie Guglielmo, John Lauerman and Dina Bass Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs is considering a liver transplant as a result of complications after ... (more) Worldwide

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— bloomberg.com — Apple’s Cook Pushes Staff in Lieu of Jobs’s Magic (Update1) By Dina Bass and Connie Guglielmo Jan. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. founder and Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs is prone to fits of passion, table pounding and screaming. Tim Cook , who ... (more) Exclusive

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Steve Jobs Probably Won't Come Back to Apple
blog.wired.com - 1/15/2009
Steve Jobs Probably Won't Come Back to Apple
— blog.wired.com — Steve Jobs' medical leave from Apple is likely to be permanent, analysts say. In a letter to Apple staff on Wednesday, Jobs said he was taking a five-month medical leave because his health issues are "more complex than I originally ... (more) Steve Jobs Probably Won't Come Back to Apple

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When Apple CEO Steve Jobs met Tim Cook
MacDailyNews — ... was then a deeply troubled company that Jobs hadn’t yet begun turning around, while Cook’s employer, Compaq, was on the top of the PC business," Wingfield reports. "Jobs started selling Cook on the notion that Apple would one day be great again... 'I heard him say he thought the stock could be $100 someday,' says Mr. Devine. Apple’s stock was trading at less than $20 at the time. Without the impact of subsequent stock splits, Apple’s shares closed Wednesday at $341.32." Full article here .

When Tim Cook Met Steve Jobs [Apple]
Gizmodo — ... WSJ's Nick Wingfield interviewed the headhunter who brought Tim Cook to Apple. Back in 1998, it was Jobs who had to convince Cook—a cyclist with a "cool, unflappable demeanor"—to leave Compaq. Good play, dude. [WSJ] ...

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