Apple Bats Down Latest Jobs Death Rumor

Report that CEO had heart attack is false, company says
By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff
Posted Oct 3, 2008 12:38 PM CDT
Apple Bats Down Latest Jobs Death Rumor
A CNN citizen-journalist site reported this morning that Apple CEO Steve Jobs has suffered a major heart attack, which the company said was not true.   (AP Photo)

Apple again today was forced to quash rumors about the health of CEO Steve Jobs, refuting a report that the CEO had suffered a “major heart attack,” Bloomberg reports. Shares fell as much as 5.4% following a post on CNN’s citizen-journalist iReport site, but have since rebounded. Jobs’ health has been an issue since a bout with pancreatic cancer in 2004. (More Steve Jobs stories.)

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