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WOODSIDE, Calif. (Reuters) – Apple Inc.chief executive 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 connected by Facebook originator Mark Zuckerberg, Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and another members of the Silicon Valley elite for talks with Obama at a stake capitalist's sprawling estate right San Francisco.

Jobs, 55, a high-tech visionary who has come to embody Apple's turbulent story 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 eld that he has condemned instance out because of upbeat reasons.

Obama's two-day West Coast meet was aimed at promoting technological conception to help boost the struggling U.S. frugalness and turn obstinately high unemployment -- considered crucial to his 2012 re-election chances.

Obama met with 12 body from profession companies and discussed structure to impact together to invest in conception and promote clannish facet employ growth, White House Press Secretary diplomatist Carney said after the meeting.

"The president specifically discussed his proposals to invest in investigate and utilization and modify incentives for companies to grow and hire, along with his content of raise exports over fivesome eld to hold jillions of dweller jobs," Carney said.

"The group also discussed the grandness of newborn investments in education," Carney said, adding that Obama expressed a want to ready the dialogue going.

The gathering was also conception of Obama's efforts to ameliorate fences with the U.S. playing accord after his Democrats were routed in the November congressional elections, and garner hold for a $3.7 1E+12 budget offering free this week and already facing formal politico resistance.

The National Enquirer on Thursday publicised pictures that purported to exhibit Jobs incoming at the Stanford Cancer Center in Palo Alto, California.

A spokeswoman for Stanford Hospital declined to comment.

The consort has refused to provide some info on Jobs' health, interpret on the past reports or feature when he might convey from leave.

Shares of Apple closed down 1.3 percent in Thursday's trading.

Jobs was not seen by a bet of White House reporters who were kept out of sight of participants at Thursday's working dinner at stake capitalist Evangelist 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 operations patch Jobs is on leave.

Analysts noted that Jobs' upbeat problems are widely famous by investors, who are not likely 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 Peter 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 involved in major strategic decisions.

Known for his idiosyncratic style, Jobs saved the machine concern from near modification 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, forged newborn playing lines for the consort that created the personal computing 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 frugalness that has been a Brobdingnagian presenter to scheme ontogeny in the terminal individual decades and we expect module move to be."

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

Obama module twine up his activate on Friday with a meet to Hillsboro, Oregon, where Intel Corp CEO Paul Otellini module give him a journeying of the company's modern semiconductor manufacturing facility.

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

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