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Steve Jobs


Why It's Trending: The Apple founder and visionary CEO has stepped down, letting COO Tim Cook take over the tech giant.

Steve Jobs: Timeline of the Entrepreneur

A look at the key milestones--and quotes--that shaped this true visionary's career

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Top 9 Company Names

Though some experts would argue that a company name doesn't affect the success of a business, there is a thing or two that small businesses can learn from the corporate giants that have turned their names into high-profile brands.

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Steve Jobs Takes a Second Medical Leave of Absence

"I love Apple so much and hope to be back as soon as I can," he says in an e-mail to employees.

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What the Apple Announcement Means

Steve Jobs of Apple announced a new Apple TV and a new Apple iPod today. Kevin Rose's prediction of an Apple TV app store proved to be off base.

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Recent Articles about Steve Jobs

Jobs Goes On Medical Leave

Apple has announced it's CEO Steve Jobs is going on medical leave for unspecified reasons. COO Tim Cook, who recently took the stage on Apple's behalf at ...  Read more

Tim Cook: No John Sculley

The scary thing about Apple is that although it is the most valuable technology company in the world, its success has almost always appeared to hinge on t...  Read more

Netgear CEO: Don't Sugarcoat It

Wow! I know it's only Monday, but this week's "too much red meat" award goes to Patrick Lo, CEO of Netgear, who ripped into Apple (specifically Steve Jobs...  Read more

Jobs, Zuckerberg to Huddle With Obama

The president will brainstorm tonight with Silicon Valley's superstar executives. Plus, reports say Steve Jobs has cancer and the rest of the day's news.  Read more

The Post PC Era

There's a debate going on about tablets. Are they actually PC's? Steve Jobs says "no". Last week when he showed up off medical leave to introduce the iPad...  Read more

Steve Jobs: Parting Quotes For Today's Entrepreneurs

By now you've likely heard that Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO of Apple an...  Read more

A Steve Jobs Birthday Tribute

How bad is the credit crisis . Th...  Read more

How to Steal Back Your Time

How Steve Jobs does customer service . Personally—and wi...  Read more

Steve Jobs Takes on Adobe

Steve Jobs takes aim at Adobe . In a sign that Apple founder Steve Jobs has returned to his familiar role as spokesperson for his company, Jobs has ...  Read more

Flame Wars: Valleywag vs. Steve Jobs

Dear Steve . . . By now, emailing Steve Jobs might be its own Internet meme. But Valleywag blogger Ryan Tate took Jobs' recent bout of responsiven...  Read more

The Third Apple Founder

Wozniak, Jobs, . . . and Wayne? The Mercury News heads to the Nevada desert and catches up with Ron Wayne, "Read more

In Defense of a College Education

Do entrepreneurs need a college education? Flickr and Hunch co-founder Caterina Fake may have Read more

7 Inch Vs. 10 Inch Tablets

What's the optimal size screen for a tablet? Short answer: who the h-e-double hockey sticks knows. The tablet is so new, it's too new for things like scre...  Read more

Yuck: Jobs And Murdoch?

In case you haven't heard, Rubert Murdoch, with the help of Steve Jobs, is set to launch a digital newspaper exclusively for the iPad by month's...  Read more

Which States are Start-up Hotbeds?

A ranking of entrepreneurial activity. Plus, Obama's Facebook town hall, Steve Jobs on Madison Avenue, and the rest of the day's news.  Read more

Apple's Steve Jobs Sicker than Previously Thought

Just days after disclosing a "nutritional problem" that would be "relatively simple ...  Read more

Apologies, Steve Jobs's Illness, and Cutbacks at Google

The wrong way to apologize . Signal vs. Noise has an entertaining breakdown of that trite way of saying sorry—"We apologize for any inconvenie...  Read more

A Dark Day, MySpace Dirt, and a Novel Business Model

75,000 in one day. Monday was a dark day for American workers. U.S. employers Read more

How to: Trade Private Stock, Diversify, Save a Project

5 warning signs your project is in danger. Web Worker Daily<...  Read more

Will Steve Jobs Take the Stage?

Apple to unveil a new iPhone . At least, we think that's what's going to happen today, as Apple throws its annual party for software developers in S...  Read more

Welcome Back Steve Jobs!

After recovering from liver transplant surgery and enduring months of bad press, Apple founder Steve Jobs took the stage at a product launch in San Franci...  Read more

A Tale of Two Tech Titans

This has been a sad week for the high tech industry and it's only Thursday. First, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has Read more

Black(out)berry

Duh doh! Blackberry had another nasty outage today hitting primarily consumers and small businesses (the enterprise clients were spared this time). ...  Read more

iPhone 3G and Stepford Steve

I got an e-mail today from Apple pointing me to their newly Read more

iPhone Envy

The world's gadget manufactures are in Las Vegas this week, hawking their wares at the annual Consumer Electronics Show. This event always includes some d...  Read more

Dictator in the machine - How Apple does it...

How does Apple continually come up with things that just look better, feel better and sound better than everybody else? Read more

Monday Morning QBs React to Apple Presser

Whether you think Apple CEO Steve Jobs hit it over the back fence or tipped it foul at his Friday press conference addressing the iPhone 4's antenna probl...  Read more

Grist: Save the Founder

Every business--no matter how big or how "mature"--needs an entrepreneur at the helm.  Read more

Seeing the iPod as a Security Threat

Is the iPod a computer security threat?  Read more

Jobs to Grads: Love What You Do

Apple and its founder and CEO Steve Jobs have been in the news a lot lately. But whether you've been salivating over the possibility of collecting $50 tha...  Read more

Goodbye to Fake Steve Jobs, and Why You Need a Business Plan

Hang up my Pajamas, says Fake Steve Jobs. Dan Lyons, the blogger who impersonated Steve Jobs with much hilarious success for two years, Read more

5 Tips for a Great PowerPoint Presentation

Want to deliver a pitch-perfect presentation? Here are five tips on how to deliver a killer PowerPoint.  View slideshow

A Is for Apple... and Arrogance

Apple's press conference today announcing how it will handle the iPhone 4 antenna came as no great shock to me. Disappointment; yes. But shock; no!Read more

Ram, This Is Steve

That's "Ram", as in Ram Arumugam, an upset iPhone/iPad app developer from Seattle and "Steve", as in Steve Jobs. The headline is a direct quote from ...  Read more

Founder King

Apple Computer made Steve Jobs famous, but it was how he started it that made him a legend.  Read more

What You Can Learn from Steve Jobs

By revitalizing Apple Computer, Steve Jobs proves that there's nothing like a charismatic leader when times are tough. But could all that charisma backfire w...  Read more

Books About Business, and the CEOs Who Love Them

Tim DeMello, founder of Wall Street Games, discusses his favorite business book ('Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing')  Read more

The Entrepreneur of the Decade

An interview with Steven Jobs, Inc.'s Entrepreneur of the Decade  Read more

The Enemy Within

Haven't we heard this story before? True, Steven Jobs left Apple Computer Inc. with a little more money than Tim Wagner, but the facts are the same. A b...  Read more

Corporate Antihero John Sculley

The man who eased Steve Jobs out of Apple talks about the dangers of company cultures and the blind spots of company founders  Read more