7 posts and columns on surgery

All I Want for Christmas Is My Robot Hair Transplant

in Commerce on December 22, 2011 at 11:26 am PT

A hair-transplant robot called Artas is finally making its way into physicians’ offices across the U.S.
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Kara, Walt and Katie Visit iPhone 4-Palooza at WWDC–With Special Guest Stars Schiller, Pincus and More!

in News on June 7, 2010 at 4:37 pm PT

Earlier today, BoomTown hoofed it to downtown San Francisco to join a pair of All Things Digital A-Team members–Walt Mossberg and Katie Boehret–at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, where CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the newest version of the iconic mobile device, iPhone 4. As usual, I had to snark it up with a video of the proceedings at the Moscone Center West, where over 5,000 of the Apple faithful gathered to kibitz and ogle. Cue the excessive oohing and aahing.

Jobs: "I'm Vertical, Back at Apple and Loving Every Day of It"

in News on September 9, 2009 at 9:52 am PT

Leave it to Steve Jobs to upstage his own products. Rumored by some analysts to be a nonevent, Apple’s invitation-only music gathering today is already proving quite eventful. Audience members expecting Apple exec Phil Schiller to quarterback today’s proceedings were given a welcome surprise when CEO Steve Jobs took the stage in his first public appearance since his liver transplant surgery.
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Jobs: “I’m Vertical, Back at Apple and Loving Every Day of It”

in News on September 9, 2009 at 9:52 am PT

Leave it to Steve Jobs to upstage his own products. Rumored by some analysts to be a nonevent, Apple’s invitation-only music gathering today is already proving quite eventful. Audience members expecting Apple exec Phil Schiller to quarterback today’s proceedings were given a welcome surprise when CEO Steve Jobs took the stage in his first public appearance since his liver transplant surgery.
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AAPL Sauce

in News on January 14, 2009 at 2:36 pm PT

As one might imagine, Apple’s shareholders did not take the news of Steve Jobs’s medical leave of absence well. And learning that his “health-related issues are more complex” than first believed certainly didn’t help matters. After trading resumed, Apple shares tanked, plummeting eight percent to $78.50 (and knocking about $6.4 billion off the company’s market cap) before recovering a bit.