Steve Jobs Dies at 56

Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 21:30 in Health & Medicine

Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple , died Wednesday at age 56. The cause was pancreatic cancer.Jobs had been battling cancer for at least 6 years, telling his employees in 2004 that he was being treated for the disease, and undergoing a l iver transplant in 2009. On August 24, he announced to the board of Apple that he was stepping down as CEO, whereupon Tim Cook, the COO, took over. [More]

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