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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 treatment for pancreatic cancer in 2004, ...
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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
Steve Jobs Probably Won't Come Back to Apple
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
Lyons: The Media's Rotten Reporting on Apple | Newsweek Daniel Lyons | Techtonic Shifts
newsweek.com — For the past six months Steve Jobs has been looking terribly ill. But only this week did Apple finally acknowledge that Jobs isn't doing well, when the company announced that Jobs would take a leave for six months. Some suggest the company has misled ... (more) Lyons: The Media's Rotten Reporting on Apple | Newsweek ...
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Steve Jobs To Bloomberg: "Leave Me Alone" (AAPL)
Silicon Alley Insider — ... The quote is attached to an article speculating that Jobs is "considering a liver transplant as a result of complications after treatment for pancreatic cancer in 2004, according to people who are monitoring his illness." ...

Bloomberg: Apple’s Steve Jobs said to be considering liver transplant, asks to be left alone
MacDailyNews — ... details of his condition,' yet has no problem speculating publicly. What happened to ethics? Or compassion? Or decency? Guglielmo, Lauerman and Bass continue, "In a telephone interview today, Jobs said he won’t comment further on his health. 'Why don’t you guys leave me alone -- why is this important?' Jobs said." Guglielmo, Lauerman and Bass sure as hell aren't about to do that. They simply continue picking apart the man's organs, like the vultures they are, in their full article here . [Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Mike R." for the heads up.] ...

Steve Jobs asks to be left alone; Bloomberg ignores, reports Jobs considering liver transplant
MacDailyNews — ... details of his condition,' yet has no problem speculating publicly. What happened to ethics? Or compassion? Or decency? Guglielmo, Lauerman and Bass continue, "In a telephone interview today, Jobs said he won’t comment further on his health. 'Why don’t you guys leave me alone -- why is this important?' Jobs said." Bloomberg's tasteless trio sure as hell aren't about to do that. They simply continue picking apart the man's organs, like the vultures they are, in their full article here . MacDailyNews Note: To contact these particular vultures: • Connie Guglielmo: • John ...

Steve Jobs Considering Liver Transplant Says Bloomberg News [Apple]
GizmodoBloomberg News is claiming that Steve Jobs is considering a liver transplant, citing "people who are monitoring his illness." Does this mean Bloomberg talked to his doctors? His nurses? It's unclear, since "people who are monitoring his illness" could technically mean quite a lot of people. In a telephone interview today, Jobs said he won’t comment further on his health. “Why don’t you guys leave me alone — why is this important?” Jobs said. [Bloomberg] ...

Is Steve Jobs Getting a Liver Transplant?
Gearlog — ... How sick is Steve Jobs? Very, according to Bloomberg News. The financial site is reporting that the Apple CEO is looking into a liver transplant to help with complications from his bout with pancreatic cancer. ...

Steve Jobs Said to Be Considering Liver Transplant
Wired: Gadget Lab — People monitoring Steve Jobs' illness say the sick CEO is considering a liver transplant, Bloomberg reports. Bloomberg had no additional details regarding Jobs' condition. "Why don’t you guys leave me alone -- why is this important?" said Jobs, in a phone interview with Bloomberg.     In a letter to Apple staff on Wednesday, the CEO announced his five-month medical leave. In an open letter that Jobs published just last week, the CEO cited hormone imbalance as the cause for his noticeable weight loss. However, in Wednesday's letter to staff Jobs said he "learned that my ...

A new reality distortion field
Macworld — by Dan Miller , Macworld.com What is it about Steve Jobs that makes otherwise sensible journalists completely lose their marbles? This week’s coverage of Steve Jobs’ health woes has hit some surprising new lows in journalistic IQ. The latest example is a story on Newser.com by media reporter Michael Wolff, headlined Apple Dies . Its premise: “the logical answer to what happens at Apple without Jobs is that it dies. What you have, demonstrably, is a company without any managerial wherewithal beyond Jobs.” What is demonstrable is that Michael Wolff doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He doesn’t seem to know who Tim Cook is. ...

Steve Jobs to stand for re-election to Disney's board
AppleInsider — ... of TV shows through iTunes. In related news, Bloomberg on Friday cited "people who are monitoring [Jobs'] illness" as saying he is considering a liver transplant as a result of complications that followed his pancreatic cancer treatment in 2004. When reached by phone, Jobs refused to comment further on his health and pleaded for some privacy. "Why don’t you guys leave me alone -- why is this important?," he said.

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