WOODSIDE - While chasing rumors concerning the health of the founder and CEO of Apple, which according to the tabloid National Enquirer has only a few weeks of life, Steve Jobs last night he dined with President Barack Obama and several business executives in Silicon Valley, proving to be pretty good.
The meeting was closed to the press, but the White House has indicated to reporters that Jobs was present at the dinner at the home of venture capitalist John Doerr, a suburb of Woodside, near San Francisco, not far from the computer centers in Palo Alto Cupertino where they are located and Apple, Google and many other names in the industry.
Jobs' health have not spoken nor the White House or Apple, where Jobs is on leave from the disease since January for reasons not specified. Jobs, 55, had undergone a liver transplant in 2009 and therapy for pancreatic cancer in 2004. The Enquirer had published a picture of what it identified as the founder of Apple, emaciated, as he left a clinic specializing in cancer.
Along with Jobs, the landlord and Obama, the dinner were the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Google Eric Schmidt, Larry Ellison to Oracle, and others in the computer industry which is based around San Francisco. The discussion was centered, according to the White House on innovation and closer cooperation between the government and private industry.
Jobs Obama had seen the last time last October, also in California, during an evening for financing election of the Democratic Party, of which Jobs is a supporter as well as many other elite of Silicon Valley. 
The meeting was closed to the press, but the White House has indicated to reporters that Jobs was present at the dinner at the home of venture capitalist John Doerr, a suburb of Woodside, near San Francisco, not far from the computer centers in Palo Alto Cupertino where they are located and Apple, Google and many other names in the industry.
Jobs' health have not spoken nor the White House or Apple, where Jobs is on leave from the disease since January for reasons not specified. Jobs, 55, had undergone a liver transplant in 2009 and therapy for pancreatic cancer in 2004. The Enquirer had published a picture of what it identified as the founder of Apple, emaciated, as he left a clinic specializing in cancer.
Along with Jobs, the landlord and Obama, the dinner were the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Google Eric Schmidt, Larry Ellison to Oracle, and others in the computer industry which is based around San Francisco. The discussion was centered, according to the White House on innovation and closer cooperation between the government and private industry.
Jobs Obama had seen the last time last October, also in California, during an evening for financing election of the Democratic Party, of which Jobs is a supporter as well as many other elite of Silicon Valley.
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