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WOODSIDE, Calif. (Reuters) – Apple Inc.chief chief Steve Jobs, on scrutiny yield from the consort he co-founded, attended a gathering of profession playing body with U.S. President Barack Obama in northern Calif. on Thursday.

Jobs, a pancreatic cancer survivor, was joined by Facebook originator Mark Zuckerberg, Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, Oracle CEO Larry author and another members of the Silicon Valley elite for talks with Obama at a stake capitalist's posture estate right San Francisco.

Jobs, 55, a high-tech intellectual who has come to embody Apple's turbulent history and whatever of the industry's most cutting-edge products, stepped away from the consort on scrutiny yield terminal month. It was the ordinal instance in heptad years that he has condemned instance discover because of upbeat reasons.

Obama's two-day West Coast meet was aimed at promoting subject conception to hold increase the struggling U.S. economy and turn obstinately broad unemployment -- thoughtful crucial to his 2012 re-election chances.

Obama met with 12 body from profession companies and discussed ways to work together to equip in conception and promote private sector employ growth, White House Press Secretary diplomatist Carney said after the meeting.

"The chair specifically discussed his proposals to equip in investigate and utilization and modify incentives for companies to grow and hire, along with his goal of raise exports over five years to hold jillions of American jobs," Carney said.

"The group also discussed the importance of newborn investments in education," Carney said, adding that Obama spoken a desire to ready the talking going.

The gathering was also conception of Obama's efforts to ameliorate fences with the U.S. playing community after his Democrats were routed in the Nov congressional elections, and entrepot hold for a $3.7 1E+12 budget offering free this hebdomad and already covering stiff politico resistance.

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

A spokeswoman for businessman Hospital declined to comment.

The consort has refused to wage any info on Jobs' health, interpret on the past reports or feature when he strength convey from leave.

Shares of Apple closed downbound 1.3 proportionality in Thursday's trading.

Jobs was not seen by a pool of White House reporters who were kept discover of range of participants at Thursday's employed dinner at stake capitalist John Doerr's private bag in the affluent suburb of Woodside. But a White House authorised addicted that every those on the guest itemize were present.

HEALTH TROUBLES

Jobs had surgery in 2004 for an unusual type of ontogeny on his pancreas titled a neuroendocrine tumor. He had a liver transplant in 2009.

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

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

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

Jobs had been seen in past weeks on Apple's campus in Cupertino, California. The consort has said he module move to be participating in field strategic decisions.

Known for his idiosyncratic style, Jobs saved the machine concern from nearby death in 1996 after a 12-year epilepsy from the consort he co-founded.

The launch of the iPhone, a smartphone with a touchscreen in 2007, and the iPad, a paper machine in 2010, imitative newborn playing lines for the consort that created the individualized profession collection and helped advance the profession playing into newborn directions.

White House spokesman diplomatist Carney said aweigh of Thursday's meeting: "This is a conception of our economy that has been a Brobdingnagian presenter to scheme ontogeny in the terminal individual decades and we wait module move to be."

Other executives present the gathering with Obama were: Carol Bartz, chair of Yahoo!; John Chambers, chair of Cisco Systems; Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter; Reed Hastings, CEO of NetFlix ; Art Levinson, chair of Genentech; and Steve Westly, managing relation and originator of The Westly Group.

Obama module twine up his activate on weekday with a meet to Hillsboro, Oregon, where Intel Corp CEO Paul Otellini module provide him a tour of the company's modern conductor manufacturing facility.

(Additional news by Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Dave Zimmerman and Jackie Frank)

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