Daniel Eran DilgerWhile he remained out of sight of the pool of reporters covering the event, a White House official confirmed that all those invited were in attendance, according to a report by Reuters.
In addition to Apple's Jobs, Obama's conference with Silicon Valley executives, held at the home of John Doerr of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers earlier this evening, was also said to have invited:
Carol Bartz, president and CEO of Yahoo!
John Chambers, CEO and chairman of Cisco Systems,
Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter,
Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle,
Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix,
John Hennessy, president of Stanford University,
Art Levinson, chairman and former CEO of Genentech,
Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google,
Steve Westly, Managing Partner and Founder of The Westly Group and
Mark Zuckerberg, president and CEO of Facebook.
Reuters reported that the meeting, part of Obama's two-day West Coast visit, "was aimed at promoting technological innovation to help boost the struggling U.S. economy and reduce stubbornly high unemployment — considered crucial to his 2012 re-election chances."
One issue likely to be raised at the meeting is a proposal to allow US corporations to repatriate foreign cash reserves via a temporary tax holiday, a plan that is being sold as a way to boost the country's economic recovery and create jobs through domestic investment.
Yesterday it was reported that Jobs had been seen at the Stanford Cancer Center, ostensibly to receive additional treatment. A tabloid is said to be publishing paparazzi photos and arranged to have a doctor make a diagnosis of Jobs' condition based on the photos they had obtained.
Apple has not provided updates on Jobs' condition, although he has been reported to be actively involved in the company's ongoing planning and management decisions and is said to frequently visit the company's Cupertino headquarters, even as the company's chief operations officer Tim Cook handles the remainder of its duties while Jobs remains on medical leave.
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Good sign that Steve Jobs attended the meeting. As for the Enquirers article, I would NOT put to much credibility in it. Picture doesn't look real ( it's on the web).
I'm sure that more sources will confirm Jobs attendance by Friday evening.
Hopefully Steve Jobs is doing better.
as much as i want to know about steve jobs health, i really hope the paparazzi can give this man some privacy, especially during the times he's on a medical leave. but thats not going to happen is it?
The National Enquirer is pure scum. I saw those pictures and while they may be real, it is retarded for them to have a doctor predict how much longer he has, just based on looking at the pictures. It wasn't that long ago that the National Enquirer printed that Michael Douglas only had a few months to live. They couldn't have been more wrong. A rapist has as much right to feel proud of their profession as the people working for that crappy tabloid do. Both are pure scum.
The National Enquirer is pure scum. I saw those pictures and while they may be real, it is retarded for them to have a doctor predict how much longer he has, just based on looking at the pictures. It wasn't that long ago that the National Enquirer printed that Michael Douglas only had a few months to live. They couldn't have been more wrong. A rapist has as much right to feel proud of their profession as the people working for that crappy tabloid do. Both are pure scum.
I totally agree! Thanks for your post! National Enquirer is a National Shame, which unfortunately is not limited to the USA!!!
The above quote, I suspect, represents how most people feel about this!!! The sad part is that someone is buying such publications, which keeps them in business!!! How can National Enquirer folks (not the readers!) live with themselves???!!! Their readers are of course caught in the Gossip Trap, like junkies, hooked on that kind of Gossip Fix... I wish them all a speedy recovery...
Of course, another suspect is that that at least some of Apple, Steve etc rumor articles etc. might just another way of AAPL Stock Price Manipulation... I'm not a big fan of Conspiracy Theories, but, given how much $$ there is involved, it's quite plausible, I think...
Meanwhile, Apple fans or not, the world has a lot to be thankful for as far as Apple, and thus Steve Jobs! Some will admit to that, some won't... It's impossible to please everyone, I guess! And there will always be jealous people!!!
It'd be also great if All Tech Media did a lot better job on the Hype-Click Bait front...! But, I understand that Clicks, Traffic is a $eductive thing... Such $eduction is not far away from the $eduction that the National Enquirer owners could claim... And let's not forget their "cousins" during the "lost" iPhone 4...
In retrospect, it was a sad moment in Apple's history... It felt like a low blow, blackmail, pr stunt... I am still angry at those clowns who caused all that noise, in their Zeal for Clicks.... But then, most peopler are too worn out with that episode that it's not even worse rehashing... Still, it'd be nice to get the Answers to that list of Qs...
Anyway.... I join all those who wish Steve Jobs and Apple well...
This is sick. How about the paparazzi leave him alone while he's trying to get treatment. They're below human.