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WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs, who is on scrutiny yield from the company, module listen a gathering in Calif. on weekday with President Barack Obama, a maker familiar with the gathering said.

Facebook originator Mark Zuckerberg and Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt module also listen the meeting, the maker told Reuters.

Jobs, a pancreatic cancer survivor, stepped away from Apple on scrutiny yield terminal month. It was the third instance in seven eld that Jobs has condemned yield for health-related reasons.

The National Enquirer on weekday published pictures that purported to show Jobs incoming at the Stanford Cancer Center in Palo Alto, California.

Shares of Apple slipped 1.3 percent.

A spokeswoman for Stanford Hospital declined to comment.

The company has declined to provide some details on his health, interpret on the past reports, or feature when he strength convey from leave.

Jobs had surgery in 2004 for an extraordinary type of growth on his pancreas called a neuroendocrine tumor. He had a liver infix in 2009.

Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook is running Apple's day-to-day dealings patch Jobs is on leave.

Analysts noted that Jobs' upbeat problems are widely known by investors, who are not probable to be shocked by Internet reports.

"I encounter it puzzling that he would be on campus and 'working' from home if he was that sick," said Peter Misek, an shrink at Jefferies. "Seeing him go into a cancer communication facility shouldn't be a surprise."

Jobs has fresh been seen on Apple's campus in Palo Alto, near San Francisco. The company has said he module continue to be involved in field strategic decisions.

Obama is air to San Francisco after on Thursday. In California, he is to foregather with a sort of playing body in profession and conception at a private residence, the White House said.

The White House has been actuation lately to improve its relations with the playing community. Since his fellow Democrats were routed in mid-term congressional elections in November, the chair has been making a conjunctive try to heal a rift with the U.S. joint community.

Thursday's gathering module come issues including how to strengthen the U.S. economy, support entrepreneurship and generate jobs in the United States, the White House said.

General Electric Co Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt, who was expected to listen and was chosen to nous an right panel of experts to give economic advise to the White House, module not be attending, a GE spokesman said.

(Reporting by Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Vicki Allen, Dave Zimmerman)

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