7 posts and columns on pancreatic cancer

With Jobs Definitely Mulling Appearance at iPad Event, Let's Hope the Focus Is on the Product

in News on March 1, 2011 at 9:31 am PT

According to several sources close to the situation, Apple CEO Steve Jobs–who is on a health-related leave from the company–is definitely considering an appearance at its big iPad 2 event tomorrow. But the possibility–which would be a big sensation at the San Francisco gathering–is also just as definitely not confirmed as yet, stressed sources. In any case, if he does appear, let’s hope everyone can pay more attention to what bells and whistles the iPad 2 has rather than how his jeans are fitting.

Viral Video: Steve Jobs's "Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish" Speech (Now, More Than Ever)

in News on January 18, 2011 at 1:20 am PT

It’s definitely an oldie–from a 2005 speech that Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs gave at Stanford University, after recovering from his first bout with pancreatic cancer–but a truly good one. BoomTown posted it last time there was a hubbub around what and what was not known about his poor health in 2009. It’s more pertinent than ever.

Steve Jobs Asks for Privacy–and He Deserves It This Time

in News on January 17, 2011 at 7:32 am PT

There had been rumors bubbling up last week in Silicon Valley that Apple CEO Steve Jobs might be sick again, due to a non-appearance at a big event. Jobs confirmed that this morning in an email to his employees, in which he asked everyone to respect his privacy. This time, in his third major health-related bout, we probably should give it to him.

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

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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Maybe the Feds Can Diagnose What Ails Apple and Steve Jobs (and Whether It Matters or Not)

in News on January 21, 2009 at 2:36 am PT

Early this morning, Bloomberg reported that regulators are looking into Apple’s disclosures about the health–or lack thereof–of its iconic CEO Steve Jobs. And while BoomTown has railed against the creepy obsession the media have had with Jobs’s health and the publishing of rumors and innuendos about it as fact without a whole lot of reporting, I hope it is true. It is also entirely appropriate that the government agency charged with keeping an eye on public companies does investigate–at the very least, to get the story right.

To Err Is Human, to Live Divine: How Exactly No One Got It Right About Steve Jobs's Health

in News on January 6, 2009 at 11:00 am PT

You knew it was coming, of course. Since the blogosphere couldn’t actually kill him off–deeply lazy and incredibly wrong in insinuating that Apple CEO Steve Jobs was dying imminently–it turned around yesterday and declared him a liar for not saying he had a “hormonal imbalance” sooner. Of course, Apple has also played along in this bizarre game, along with its defenders, who have all tried to pretend nothing is wrong with a man who clearly looks like he has had the stuffing knocked out of him because of his long-running health issues. Since the facts of the matter seem dead on arrival, get Marcus Welby, M.D., stat!

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Apple CEO's Silence Says More Than His PR Team

in News on July 31, 2008 at 2:17 am PT

Phew. Apple Inc.’s iconic Chief Executive Steve Jobs does not have a recurrence of the pancreatic cancer he successfully battled four years ago. At least that is what investors learned by reading the New York Times, in an odd culmination of events that started last week, after Apple (AAPL) reported its second-quarter earnings and an analyst gently asked about Jobs’ health on the conference call.