VentureBeat Week in Review - Steve Jobs cancer rumors spark Apple worries - February 22, 2011

View this email as a webpage | Forward to a friend February 22, 2011 FORWARD THIS EMAIL JOIN US ON TWITTER / FACEBOOK Steve Jobs cancer rumor sparks Apple worries Apple chief executive Steve Jobs may be receiving treatment from the Stanford Cancer Center, according to reports in not particularly reputable publications. Those rumors were belied by the fact Jobs actually showed up at a dinner with President Obama on Thursday, but they fed into the general uncertainty about Jobs’ health -- after all, our coverage became VentureBeat's biggest story of the week. Other popular posts looked at the initial and final victory of IBM's supercomputer Watson on the TV game show Jeopardy. - Anthony Ha TOP STORIES Steve Jobs’ cancer clinic sighting sparks new Apple worries February 16, 2011 | Anthony Ha It’s alive: IBM’s Watson supercomputer defeats humans in final Jeopardy match February 16, 2011 | Dean Takahashi IBM’s Watson obliterates humans in first Jeopardy round February 15, 2011 | Devindra Hardawar Apple’s iPhone 5 may sport a 4-inch screen February 15, 2011 | Devindra Hardawar Y Combinator founder: There is no tech bubble February 17, 2011 | Matthew Lynley UPCOMING EVENTS DEMO Spring 2011 - February 27-March 1, Palm Desert, CA BeMyApp WeekEnd - March 4-6, San Francisco, CA Structure Big Data 2011 - March 23, New York City Socialize East - March 31-Aril 1, New York City VENTUREBEAT JOB BOARD Funder Outreach and Development San Francisco, CA Future 500 Java J2EE / JEE Software Engineer San Mateo, CA Sakonnet Systems Director of Advocacy Media San Francisco, CA Future 500 COMPANIES IN THE NEWS Apple, IBM, Y Combinator PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Paul Graham, Ken Jennings, Steve Jobs, Brad Rutter Follow us on Twitter Friend us on Facebook Join us on LinkedIn Provided by , the leading news source on technology innovation. 50 California Street, Suite 3270, San Francisco, CA 94111 If you would like to no longer receive this newsletter, click here to change your subscription preferences, or click here to unsubscribe. © 2010 VentureBeat