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Jobs attends Obama's tech meet
By Matt Spetalnick and Gabriel Madway |
February 19, 2011, Saturday
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APPLE Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs, on medical leave from the company he co-founded, attended a meeting of technology industry leaders with United States President Barack Obama in north California on Thursday.
Jobs, a pancreatic cancer survivor, was joined by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and other members of the Silicon Valley elite for talks with the US president at a venture capitalist's sprawling estate outside San Francisco.
Jobs, 55, a high-tech visionary who has come to embody Apple's turbulent history and some of the industry's most cutting-edge products, stepped away from the company on medical leave last month. It was the third time in seven years that he has taken time out because of health reasons.
Obama's two-day West Coast visit was aimed at promoting technological innovation to help boost the struggling US economy and reduce stubbornly high unemployment - considered crucial to his 2012 re-election chances.
Obama met with 12 leaders from technology companies and discussed ways to work together to invest in innovation and promote private sector job growth, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said after the meeting.
"The president specifically discussed his proposals to invest in research and development and expand incentives for companies to grow and hire, along with his goal of doubling exports over five years to support millions of American jobs," Carney said.
"The group also discussed the importance of new investments in education," Carney said, adding that Obama expressed a desire to keep the dialogue going.
Jobs was not seen by a pool of White House reporters who were kept out of sight of participants at Thursday's working dinner at venture capitalist John Doerr's secluded home in the affluent suburb of Woodside. But a White House official confirmed that all those on the guest list were present.
Jobs, a pancreatic cancer survivor, was joined by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and other members of the Silicon Valley elite for talks with the US president at a venture capitalist's sprawling estate outside San Francisco.
Jobs, 55, a high-tech visionary who has come to embody Apple's turbulent history and some of the industry's most cutting-edge products, stepped away from the company on medical leave last month. It was the third time in seven years that he has taken time out because of health reasons.
Obama's two-day West Coast visit was aimed at promoting technological innovation to help boost the struggling US economy and reduce stubbornly high unemployment - considered crucial to his 2012 re-election chances.
Obama met with 12 leaders from technology companies and discussed ways to work together to invest in innovation and promote private sector job growth, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said after the meeting.
"The president specifically discussed his proposals to invest in research and development and expand incentives for companies to grow and hire, along with his goal of doubling exports over five years to support millions of American jobs," Carney said.
"The group also discussed the importance of new investments in education," Carney said, adding that Obama expressed a desire to keep the dialogue going.
Jobs was not seen by a pool of White House reporters who were kept out of sight of participants at Thursday's working dinner at venture capitalist John Doerr's secluded home in the affluent suburb of Woodside. But a White House official confirmed that all those on the guest list were present.
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