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Fortune names Steve Jobs ‘CEO of the Decade’ (with video)
MacDailyNews —
... . Lashinsky writes, "After creating more than $150 billion in shareholder wealth, transforming movies, telecom, music, and computing (and profoundly influencing the worlds of retail and design), what should Steve Jobs do next? Given his penchant for secrecy and surprise and his proven brilliance, it's a fair bet that he'll let us know when he's good and ready." There's much more in the full article - recommended - here . MacDailyNews Take: Boom! (RUMOR: Next week, Fortune plans to name Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer "CEO of the Dismayed.") ...
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs named Fortune 'CEO of the Decade'
AppleInsider —
... Published: 09:05 AM EST For his role in turning Apple into a groundbreaking technology leader and the most valuable company in Silicon Valley, Fortune Magazine has named Steve Jobs its "CEO of the Decade." The magazine's profile of Jobs noted that the 54-year-old overcame rejection from his own company in the 1980s, a ...
Apple's Steve Jobs is Fortune's 'CEO of the Decade'
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
... Steve Jobs has been declared “CEO of the Decade” by Fortune Magazine, which has published an extensive treasure-trove of data on America’s most enigmatic business leader. ...
Steve Jobs named ‘CEO of the Decade’
Macsimum News —
... Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been named “CEO of the Decade” by Fortune magazine. In the past 10 years alone “he has radically and lucratively reordered three markets—music, movies, and mobile telephones—and his impact on his original industry, computing, has only grown,” Fortune says. ...
Steve Jobs — CEO of the Decade
The iPhone Blog —
... Fortune Magazine has named Steve Jobs CEO of the Decade. The Apple co-founder, Apple II, Mac, iPod, iTunes, and iPhone visionary is summed up in suitably dramatic fashion: ...
Steve Jobs Named ‘CEO of the Decade’
Cult of Mac —
... million in free publicity, thanks to the company’s well-known penchant for secrecy and Jobs’ demand for near total control – down to approving ad copy and the words he and other company executives say to the public. In the wake of Jobs’ return this summer, much speculation centered on who might succeed the iconic Apple executive. An Apple sans Steve will likely remain vibrant, thanks to what the magazine calls an effort to select people who are “trained to think like Steve.” [Via Fortune Magazine and ...
Fortune names Steve Jobs as CEO of the Century, So Far
GMSV —
... . His place in history was already assured by his accomplishments in previous decades, but as Fortune notes, his achievements since the turn of the century (what did we decide to call this decade? The Aughts?) have been remarkable.“In the past 10 years alone he has radically and lucratively reordered three markets music, movies, and mobile telephones and his impact on his original industry, computing, has only grown,” writes Adam Lashinsky . “Remaking any one business is a career-defining achievement; four is unheard-of. Think about that for a moment. Henry Ford altered ...
Fortune Crowns Steve Jobs CEO Of The Decade
I4U News —
... and the magazine crown's him with Fortune's CEO of the Decade. Steve Jobs has had a couple of up and downs with Apple and with his health. The impact he had though with his work on Apple and the gadget and computer industry are undeniable. Take a cup of coffee and read the full story on Fortune/CNN . Posted on Thu, 5 Nov 2009 09:48:36 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Jobs Named “CEO of the Decade” By Fortune Magazine
EverythingiCafe —
... He may be dictatorial, demanding, abrasive, secrecy-obsessed and have a history of parking in handicap reserved spots, but he brought Apple back from the brink, and altered the landscape of computers and design. Fortune Magazine have named this “the decade of Steve Jobs“, and it’s understandable given the massive change that he has wrought. ...
News: Apple’s Jobs named ‘CEO of the decade’
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond —
... Apple co-founder and CEO Steve jobs its CEO of the decade. “Superlatives have attached themselves to Jobs since he was a young man. Now that he’s 54, merely listing his achievements is sufficient explanation of why he’s Fortune’s CEO of the Decade (though the superlatives continue),” Adam Lashinsky writes in a two-page overview of Jobs’ business history. “In the past 10 years alone he has radically and lucratively reordered three markets—music, movies, and mobile telephones—and his impact on his original industry, computing, has only grown. Remaking any one business is a ...
Steve Jobs Gets Crowned “CEO of the Decade”
TheAppleBlog —
... Fortune magazine just published an article in which it names Steve Jobs, Apple CEO and co-founder, CEO of the decade. How does one merit such a grandiose title? Well, by doing the seemingly impossible, that’s how. Fortune recounts the Coles Notes version of Jobs’ life and times, and it sounds too fantastic to be true. Yet it is true, and it is at least partly responsible for the rabid devotion Apple commands. ...
Steve Jobs is Fortune's CEO of the decade
Macworld —
... , Apple’s continued success. Fortune clearly thinks that over the past ten years, his ups outweigh his downs; the publication has named Steve Jobs its CEO of the decade . While the article spends most of its time rehashing the story of Jobs returning Apple to profitability and beyond, it also points out some impressive facts about the Apple CEO, such as the impact he’s had on multiple industries: In the past 10 years alone he has radically and lucratively reordered three markets — music, movies, and mobile telephones — and his impact on his original industry, computing, has ...
Steve Jobs named "CEO of the Decade" by Fortune
Infinite Loop —
... . He is admired by geeks and businessmen alike, and his successes (and failures) with Apple, NeXT, Pixar, and Apple again fill the pages of numerous books. Given Apple's meteoric rise from near-bankruptcy in 1997 to the technology leader that everyone is trying to follow today, is it really much of a surprise that Fortune has dubbed Jobs "CEO of the Decade?" ...
Forbes names Jobs "CEO of the Decade"
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... Forbes bestowed a significant honor on Steve Jobs today, naming him their CEO of the Decade. Forbes outlines the incredible leaps in business, technology and industry Apple has made since Steve's return. For anyone who might not remember, the 90's were not kind to Apple and nearly everyone thought the company was finished. ...
Steve Jobs named as ‘CEO of the Decade’ by Fortune magazine
D' Technology Weblog —
... 2000, when Apple was worth about $5 billion, company has delivered record quarter after record quarter. Today, Apple’s worth about $170 billion, making it slightly more valuable than Google. Jobs' decade, Fortune noted, actually began in 1997, when he returned to company he helped to create. Under his watch, company debuted iMac, its modern all-in-one desktop computer, and iPod, which became standard-bearer for portable media market. Article suggests that Apple's inevitable future after ...
Why Steve Jobs Didn't Take Over Apple Back In 1997 [Steve Jobs]
Gizmodo —
... , then as official CEO. He turned the company around from insignificance and certain oblivion to the most recognizable and successful brand in consumer electronics. Which, apparently, is the reason why Fortune has named him CEO of the Decade. [Fortune] ...
Congratulations to Steve Jobs, Fortune's CEO of the Decade
Between the Lines —
... iPod, has shaken up the mobile industry with the iPhone, rocked the retail music business with iTunes and re-invented the computing business with OS X in a way that the PC business - with less than 10 percent of market share - is no longer the bread-and-butter of the company. Add to that the brilliant marketing behind Apple and the loyal, almost cult-like, following of Apple’s fans and it’s no wonder that Fortune Magazine today named him the CEO of the Decade. The opening lines of a story written by Fortune Editor-At-Large Adam Lashinsky (which also includes a nice video ...
Fortune Names Apple's Jobs 'CEO of the Decade'
ChannelWeb Complete Feed —
... screen. It looked like the lowest point for Apple, and many wondered if Jobs was the right person to save the company from bankruptcy. It turns out that Jobs was not only the right person he was also the "CEO of the Decade," according to Fortune Magazine . It's easy to see why the publication selected Jobs. The article recounts his numerous triumphs over the past 10 years, though some of the groundwork for Jobs' success was laid in the late 1990s. When Jobs returned to Apple after being ousted from the company in 1985, few people could have predicted the triumphs ...
Apple under Jobs: from muck to mountaintop
The Register —
... by the preeminent house organ of US corporate shillery, Fortune magazine. Love him or hate him - or both - Jobs has earned the honor. The article recounts Jobs's series of canny moves during the early part of this decade: streamlining Apple's discombobulated product line, pulling the plug on the cash-hemorrhaging Newton, snuffing out the money-losing Mac-clone experiment, shepherding the genre-transforming iMac, redefining music marketing with the iPod and iTunes Store, replacing Apple's creaky operating system with the (eventually stable) Unix-based Mac OS X, ...
In the news
iPhone J.D. —
... month, or more than three times each day of the month." I haven't tried to count how many times I pick up my iPhone every day, but considering that sometimes it is three times a minute, I think it is safe to say that I meet that rather lame definition of an iPhone addict. Stop your snickering; I'm sure that the same is true for many of you. So, fellow iPhone addicts, here are the iPhone-related stories that caught my attention this week:
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TechBlog —
... - Remarkably thin, and $1,800. Shipping "in time for the holidays" but no specific date yet. • The decade of Steve - Fortune magazine's love affair with Steve Jobs continues with Adam Lashinsky's proclamation that "the past decade in business belongs to Jobs." • ...
Fortune Names Steve Jobs CEO of the Decade
Digital Trends —
... magazine has probably stirred up a hornet’s nest of controversy for its pick for “ CEO of the Decade :” Apple’s Steve Jobs. Jobs has always been surrounded by controversy, from his near-totalitarian effort to create the original Lisa and then Macintosh personal computers and often acidic personality leading to his ouster from Apple Computer in the 1980s. Jobs went on to work on other projects one of which eventually became the digital animation studio Pixar, and the other of which (NeXT Computers) eventually became the intellectual property Apple bought and leveraged to ...
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TechSpot —
... Apple's Steve Jobs named CEO of the decade How's this for a gripping corporate story line: Youthful founder gets booted from his company in the 1980s, returns in the 1990s, and in the following decade survives two brushes with death, one securities-law scandal, an also-ran product lineup, and his own often unpleasant demeanor to become the dominant personality in four distinct industries, a billionaire many times over, and CEO of the most valuable company in Silicon Valley. Fortune Nvidia fires back at Intel -- with cartoons Nvidia has quietly begun taking aim at ...
ExtraBITS for 9 November 2009
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us —
... Fortune Names Jobs CEO of the Decade -- Fortune Magazine has named Steve Jobs CEO of the Decade. Why Jobs? Fortune says in the past 10 years he has "radically and lucratively reordered three markets - music, movies, and mobile telephones - and his impact on his original industry, computing, has only grown." ...
State of the Apple Nation
MacBytes.com —
... on America's "most enigmatic" business leader (in 9to5Mac's words). Fortune says "In the past 10 years alone he [Jobs] has radically and lucratively reordered three markets - music, movies, and mobile telephones - and his impact on his original industry, computing, has only grown." And since Apple has knocked the cellphone giant Nokia of its profit perch, it would be easy to assume Apple was all about the iPhone and no longer about computers. But that's simply not true. Nokia can still claim the largest global market share, but Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has overtaken it as ...
Jobs to dev on app name change: "Not that big of a deal."
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
Apple doesn't want to be a successful business?
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
... Steve Jobs was recently named CEO of the Decade by Fortune Magazine. I'm sure Jobs' ego was pleased by the designation. But ultimately, he doesn't care about this sort of thing as much as you might expect. Jobs doesn't want to be viewed by history as a Lee Iacocca or a Henry Ford. He wants posterity to look at him as a Mozart or a Da Vinci. He wants to be seen as a builder of beautiful things, not a builder of business empires. ...
What If Steve Jobs Hadn’t Returned To Apple In 1997?
TechCrunch —
... Fortune recently named Steve Jobs the CEO of the Decade, and with good reason. Not only has Apple performed financially – it’s worth about as much as Google, and has a larger market cap than AT&T, HP, Intel, Dell and countless other huge tech companies. ...
What If Steve Jobs Hadn’t Returned To Apple In 1997?
Silicon Alley Insider —
... computer. Does anyone think anyone but Steve Jobs would have pushed that product to market? I don’t think any of those products would have launched. Or if they did they would have been as notable as the MP3 players and phones launched by competitors like Dell and HP. Quick, who can name any of those products? Who’s owned one? Our World Without Steve Jobs At Apple Fortune recently named Steve Jobs the CEO of the Decade , and with good reason. Not only has Apple performed financially – it’s worth ...
