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It’s a sad start to the day. We at Tech Ticker are deeply saddened with the visionary’s demise. Steve Jobs, Chairman of the Board of Apple co-founded the company in 1976. Jobs also co-founded and was the CEO of Pixar Animation Studios who have some of the most successful and beloved animated films of all [...]

  We did see this was coming but didn’t expect it to come so early. Steve Jobs has announced to resign as a CEO of Apple Inc. Jobs says its his inabilities to meet his duties and expectation as Apple’s CEO, the reason for the resignation. Effectively immediately, Tim Cook will assume the position of [...]

  Steve Jobs who spearheads Apple operations as CEO has announced that he’ll be on medical leave. Steve Jobs took a similar leave in 2009 (on Jan 15) that confirmed his comeback month however today’s letter to Apple employees does not make any promise. Tim Cook will act as an interim CEO till Jobs’ leave [...]

  Steve Jobs’ rant from the Apple earnings call has attracted some sharp criticism. First it was the head of Android tweeting the definition of open, then a comment from the TweetDeck developer and now a post from RIM’s Co-CEO criticizing the comment as being “told half a story.” Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO at Research In [...]

  Apple Q4 earnings call was expectedly pleasant for the Cupertino giant. They posted a record revenue of $20.34 billion and net quarterly profit of $4.31 billion with international sales accounting for 57 percent of the quarter’s revenue. But despite Apple faring well financially and iPhones selling 91 percent more than the previous quarter, Steve [...]

  You seldom see a competitor commenting on other CEO but Lenovo head, Liu Chuanzhi did that and that too, in the interest of his own company. Liu says Apple’s CEO they’re lucky because “Steve Jobs has such a bad temper and doesn’t care about China.” If he were to then Liu believes that Lenovo [...]

  Steve Jobs kicked off the D8 conference and though he did not reveal anything substantial about the future endeavors, he did spill a few things about the stolen iPhone fiasco, why couldn’t they adopt Flash, Foxconn suicides, Google as a competitor and more. Few notable quotes from the interview are below: On Flash – [...]

  Steve Jobs will be taking stage at the eighth D: All Things Digital today. Kara Swisher will do the honors of interviewing the Apple honcho and though we’re not expecting him to talk much about the new iPhone, the few things he’ll talk about will be related to the “new iPad, the mobile market [...]

  As much as it sounded implausible, there was little hope in our minds to see Steve Jobs and Steve Ballmer share the same stage. But that hope has been thrashed as Microsoft’s official tweet confirms about Ballmer’s no show at Apple’s developer conference. Ballmer is currently in India and will give a keynote speech [...]

  If you needed an official confirmation, Apple’s PR team just sent out a release confirmed Jobs’ presence at the event. Steve Jobs will address the opening keynote to over 5,000 developers present at the Moscone West in San Francisco from June 7. Steve Jobs claims not to disappoint, which means we’ll have the first [...]

  UPDATE: Adobe CEO responds. Apple CEO, Steve Jobs has posted his thoughts on Adobe Flash, which lists down six simple reasons “Why Apple doesn’t allow Flash”. The post goes down highlighting the flaws in Adobe’s Flash but the most important reason Jobs claims that using Flash to develop iPhone OS apps “ultimately results in [...]

  Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute confirmed that Steve Jobs did undergo a liver transplant at their hospital but did not reveal the actual date, even though the snippet from WSJ claimed it about two months back. Jobs was tested for liver transplantation in accordance with the policies and laws and received it because he [...]

  Wall Street Journal is reporting from an anonymous source that Steve Jobs went through a liver transplant about two months back in April in Tennessee. The report does not mention much with the obvious declined comments from Apple but claims Jobs is recovering well and will return by the end of June as planned. [...]

  WSJ’s source who saw Jobs in recent weeks tells them that his return to the company is on track. Unsurprisingly, the statement comes in a few days before WWDC which makes our mind to think the obvious question. Will Jobs deliver a presentation at WWDC? The odds are highly affirmative. As we have believed [...]

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