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...course, has to do with Jobs himself, who has battled pancreatic cancer for four years and has been looking particularly gaunt since the summer. A spokesman said Jobs would not be giving the Macworld keynote because Apple was severing ties with the event, which is run by IDG, an outside publishing company. (See pictures of Steve Jobs...
...that Jobs was so upset that he told his handlers he wasn't going to give the speech; he'd simply cancel the keynote. They had to spend a significant amount of energy talking him off the roof. So it's entirely possible that he decided to blow off IDG at the last minute...
...course, Jobs has been staging his own launch events with greater frequency during the past few years. And a number of Apple observers have pointed out that the company has been trying to get out of its relationship with IDG, which runs the Macworld trade show, for years. John Gruber, who runs the well-sourced Apple blog, Daring Fireball, said in an email that he's inclined to accept the press release at face value: "I think that the set-in-stone scheduling of Macworld Expo has always been a thorn in Apple's side. "January looks worse and worse...
...oversee their enormous investment, the Weinsteins plucked David Lee, a film exec based in Hong Kong, where he was vice president of IDG Asia, a venture capital fund and media company in China. Lee says he took the Weinsteins up on their offer because he saw a good business plan: "They have a track record of knowing how to select and market to a Western audience," he says. "Other film funds haven't been able to figure...
...issue a new one with a new code. And those who use the electronic-purse system usually keep only two-figure sums of money in them. "It's not like you're gonna buy a 1948 roadster with a $99 account," says Jim Forbes, an analyst for consulting firm IDG, based in San Mateo, Calif...