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Steve Jobs
AS Profile As well at founding Apple, Jobs also co-founded Pixar Animation Studios, which has created eight of the most successful animated films of all time, and which merged with The Walt Disney Company in 2006. [08 Oct 2009]
Inspire creativity at the office - here's how
Comment Pixar, a renowned creative powerhouse, is fed by a collaborative team ethic, with 'brain trusts' and daily knowledge-sharing sessions. Richard Leyland offers some advice on how to do it. Random Walk theory is a funny... [28 Jul 2009]
The tech that lifts Pixar's Up
News May said the animation department at Pixar never even considered hand-animating the balloons. That was the challenge the production team at Pixar faced when it set out to begin work on Up its 10th... [28 May 2009]
Steve Jobs
AS Profile Another chose him for "being the figurehead of the most innovative consumer focused technology business in the world consistently for nearly 30 years and for his pioneering vision with Pixar". That Steve Jobs should... [07 Oct 2008]
Steve Jobs
AS Profile He's also on the board of Disney, since it acquired Pixar last year. Apple's long-awaited mobile phone is the main reason its CEO Steve Jobs has leapt back up the Agenda Setters rankings. Apple launched the iPhone at the... [12 Oct 2007]
Minority Report: Apple in your living room
Comment Jobs' Hollywood links - as Disney's major stakeholder and his tenure as CEO of Pixar - will no doubt aid negotiations. Having secured a lead in digital music, Apple now hopes to rule the digital movie scene too. [09 Oct 2006]
Apple uncloaks iTunes movie downloads
News The studios are Miramax, Pixar Animation Studios, Touchstone Pictures and Walt Disney Pictures. Jobs earlier this year became a member of the board at the venerable entertainment company, which acquired... [13 Sep 2006]
Intel unveils 'lean, mean, AMD-busting' Xeon
News Pixar compared preproduction servers using the Xeon 5100 processors with machines using older Intel products. Power consumption is extremely important to the developers at Pixar working on their next... [27 Jun 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 21.04.06
Round-Up Selling Pixar, putting Intel and XP inside the Mac, that kind of thing. Chinese President Hu Jintao was in Seattle and its environs this week to meet Bill Gates at Microsoft's pristine headquarters to talk shop. [21 Apr 2006]
Minority Report: Disney, Pixar and Apple - what happens next
Comment Pixar short films have been available on iTunes since video met the iPod. However, rather than a Pixar buyout, many speculated Jobs was in pole position to take over from former chief executive and... [03 Feb 2006]
Disney splashes $7.4bn on Pixar buy
News Walt Disney announced on Tuesday it's paying $7.4bn in stock to acquire Pixar Animation Studios - a deal that puts Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Disney's board of directors. For the venerable animation giant, the move is a... [25 Jan 2006]
Gates tops list of most-admired business chiefs
News Among the 15 executives listed - along with number one Gates, chairman of Microsoft, and number two Jobs, CEO of both Apple and Pixar Animation Studios - were Dell chairman Michael Dell (number four), NR Narayana Murthy,... [15 Dec 2005]
iTunes breaks one million video barrier
News Apple currently has about 2,000 music videos, a small collection of Pixar Animation Studios shorts and episodes of five ABC television shows. Apple said on Monday that it has sold more than one million videos in the 19... [31 Oct 2005]
Minority Report: What would Apple be without Jobs?
Comment Likewise we've heard about his exit from Apple a year later, buying Pixar, starting software firm NeXT - and then selling it to Apple, the move which brought him back to the company he founded. Meanwhile, Jobs' role as... [07 Oct 2005]
Minority Report: Apple as media company - and why that's good for Macs
Comment Jobs' other existence as CEO of Oscar-winning animation company Pixar would no doubt help smooth any negotiations and add credibility to arguments for delivering movies and other video content through iTunes (if that... [02 Sep 2005]
