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WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs module listen a gathering in California on weekday with President Barack Obama, a maker old with the gathering said.

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

The timing of the gathering coincides with a report in the National Enquirer with pictures purporting to be of a feeble Jobs arriving at the businessman person Center. The report is unverified.

The report cites doctors, who are not treating Jobs, saying he has six weeks to live based on the photos. Shares of Apple slipped 1 percent.

Jobs, a pancreatic cancer survivor, stepped away from Apple on medical yield terminal month. It was the ordinal time in seven years that Jobs has condemned yield for health-related reasons.

The company has declined to wage some info on his health, comment on the recent reports, or say when he strength convey from leave.

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

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

"I find 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 communication facility shouldn't be a surprise."

Obama is air to San Francisco after on Thursday. In California, he is gathering with a number of playing leaders in profession and innovation at a private residence, the White House said.

The White House has been pushing lately to meliorate its relations with the playing community. Since his man Democrats were routed in mid-term elections in November, the chair has been making a concerted try to ameliorate a rift with the U.S. joint community.

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

General Electric Co Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt, who was due to attend, module not be attending, a GE spokesman said.

(Reporting by Patricia Zengerle, editing by Vicki Allen, Dave Zimmerman)

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