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By Patricia Pickett, About.com Guide to Tech Careers

Steve Jobs Obituary Mistakenly Published

Thursday August 28, 2008

A huge technical boo-boo caused news outlet Bloomberg to mistakenly send an incomplete obituary for Apple CEO Steve Jobs over the wire on Wednesday afternoon. While it was retracted quite quickly, it caused a huge buzz in the industry. A major source of concern for Apple fans and shareholders alike has been Jobs health issues over the past decade. The Apple CEO successfully battled pancreatic cancer a few years ago. His ultra-thin physique at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June, 2008 led some bloggers and company critics to speculate that he was ill again.

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