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Video: Mossberg and Patches Opine About AppleFest 2009 at the ATD Annual BBQ

Kara Swisher in News on September 10, 2009 at 1:33 am PT

Here’s a lovely video BoomTown did last night at our All Things Digital annual BBQ, at which the crackerjack team at our little rogue operation inside Dow Jones goes analog, gnaws on some ribs and trades tech tales. Last night, of course, much of the chatter was about what went down at the Apple event in San Francisco yesterday, at which CEO and Supreme Leader Steve Jobs made a grand reappearance onstage after a liver transplant. Walt Mossberg and Digital Daily’s John Paczkowski were there and give their spicy reports.

Report: Steve Jobs Is Recovering From Liver Transplant, Still Coming Back to Apple

Peter Kafka in Media on June 19, 2009 at 9:02 pm PT

The Steve Jobs health story takes yet another twist, this time a happier one: The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Apple CEO underwent a liver transplant earlier this spring, and is recovering from the operation. Jobs, who stepped away from day-to-day management of his company in January, is still expected to return to work later this month.

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Jobs's Transplant Highlights Differing Wait Times

Laura Meckler, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on June 19, 2009 at 9:01 pm PT

Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs’s decision to travel to Tennessee for a liver highlights the significant disparities in transplant waiting times across the country–the source of a longstanding controversy over the fairest way to distribute scarce organs.