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Steve Jobs stunning resignation as CEO of Apple on Wednesday and subsequent recommendation of Tim Cook to take his spot led to the question -- who is that guy?

Apple’s former CEO Steve Jobs once reflected upon his thoughts about Microsoft founder Bill Gates that actually reflected a lot about Jobs’ past and pre-Apple days.

Probably the only reason why Steve Jobs quit as CEO of the company he co-founded and made into a world leader is because the end of his life is near. His body is breaking down and, as usual, neither he nor Apple will discuss it.

A German judge said on Thursday an injunction sought by Apple banning the sale of Samsung's new Galaxy Tab tablet computers in Germany appeared valid because there were overarching similarities to Apple's iPad.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: TiVo, Clean Energy Fuels, F5 Networks, SodaStream International, and Prospect Capital. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Sigma Designs, Applied Materials, Infosys Technologies, Vodafone Group, Randgold Resources, and Apple.

Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs, one of the greatest entrepreneurs of the time has submitted his resignation to the board of directors on Wednesday.

Most analysts seem rather unconcerned by Jobs departure, citing that Apple is a behemoth that is loaded with brilliant managers and boasts more stellar products in the pipeline.

Steve Jobs resigns from Apple, and now it's time to reflect back on what made the skinny college dropout one of the best innovators in the history of modern capitalism. News that Jobs resigned may be a surprise in timing, but everybody knew this was coming sooner rather than later. Jobs has been battling pancreatic cancer for years, and had a liver transplant two years ago, after all.

While Apple Inc. is tight-lipped towards its iPhone 5 release date, the smartphone is expected to face a good deal of competition from Android devices, particularly from HTC that has planned to introduce its biggest smartphone known as HTC Holiday.

Steve Jobs resigned as Apple's Chief Executive on Wednesday and handed over the reins to Tim Cook, who was the company's Chief Operating Officer and had been assuming Jobs' role in his absence.

Shares of Apple Inc fell more than 4 percent in pre-market trading on Thursday, a day after its iconic CEO Steve Jobs resigned, leaving right-hand man Tim Cook to take on the mantle.

Apple’s Steve Jobs resigned as the company’s CEO on Wednesday.

Windows Phone seems to be chasing the app stores of Apple and Android and now holds a gamut of 30,000 apps.

The resignation of Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs has opened the door for rival Samsung Electronics at a crucial time in the battle for smartphone supremacy in salesrooms and courtrooms around the world.

Stock futures pointed to a mixed open on Wall Street on Thursday, with futures for both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones rising 0.3 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures down 0.3 percent on news Steve Jobs had stepped down as Apple CEO.

World stocks edged up from this month's 11-month low on Thursday while gold fell sharply as investors took an optimistic view of how strongly the Federal Reserve will commit to supporting the economy at a gathering this week.

People with the rare form of cancer that Apple Inc's Steve Job suffers face a tough fight if the disease reoccurs, because of the methods used in fighting the cancer.

Samsung Electronics shares rose sharply on Thursday, amid a rally in South Korean large cap stocks and analysts said it received a boost from a Dutch patent ruling and the decision by Apple's Steve Jobs to step down.

The resignation of Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs has opened the door for rival Samsung Electronics at a crucial time in the battle for smartphone supremacy in salesrooms and courtrooms around the world.

Apple stock fell over 7 percent in a single day of trading after it was announced that Steve Jobs was stepping down from the position of CEO. It was already expected that he would quit the position particularly with the confirmation of his health problem relating to pancreatic cancer. It was also expected that the stock of Apple was going to be badly hit once he officially made that decision. The one question remaining was how badly it was going to hit the shares of Apple. The trend shown last d...

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM.TO)(RIMM.O) is planning for its newer models of smartphones, expected next year, to run applications designed for Google Inc's (GOOG.O) Android operating system, a Bloomberg report said, citing people familiar with the plan.

Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Inc., resigned as chief executive officer, but will continue at the company that revolutionized consumer electronics as chairman of the board, according to reports. Jobs tendered his resignation on Wednesday, ending a 14-year reign at Apple, a tech-giant company that he co-founded in a garage.

Silicon Valley legend Steve Jobs relinquished the reins at Apple Inc to right-hand man Tim Cook on Wednesday, after 14 years in command at a company he brought back from the brink and turned into the world's largest technology corporation.

Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Inc., has stepped down as chief executive officer of the company that revolutionized consumer electronics, but will become chairman of the board, according to the company.

The latest one from the rumor mill is that the iPhone 5 with a materially revamped user interface will come only in 2012, and Apple will launch only an iPhone 4S in the fall.

Tim Cook, Apple's Chief Operating Officer, who has been standing in for CEO Steve Jobs during his medical leave, has been named the new CEO after Jobs resigned as Apple Inc Chief Executive on Wednesday, without specifying a reason.

In a widely expected move, Steve Jobs resigned as Apple's Chief Executive and handed over the reins to Tim Cook, who was the company's Chief Operating Officer and had been assuming Job's role in his absence.

Following is a letter from Steve Jobs who resigned on Wednesday as chief executive officer of technology giant Apple Inc:

Samsung Electronics shares rose early on Thursday after a Dutch court rejected most of the patent infringement claims by Apple, whose visionary chief executive Steve Jobs resigned, raising Samsung's hopes of closing the gap with the U.S. firm.