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Apple and IKEA - Job's to join as CEO
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IKEA's flatpack days may soon be a distant memory, as Apple and Pixar founder Steve Jobs turns to his latest challenge. Inter IKEA Systems BV will employ Jobs as "acting CEO", from next month. The technology icon will maintain his twin CEO roles at Apple Computer Inc. and Pixar Inc. but will also take command with a wide-ranging brief at the retail giant. For the technology guru, it's just another job, but for the Swedish furnishing franchise, it's a massive gamble. IKEA had a turnover of �13 billion last year, and has over 200 stores worldwide.
For Jobs, who has no furniture at all in his Palo Alto house, it's an opportunity to reinvent an industry once again. Exclusive mock-ups of his first designs have been obtained by The Register.
Apple fans won't be disappointed. Jobs has convinced the Apple board to second the computer company's award-winning design team to work for IKEA, and in a unique licensing agreement, the results will bear the Apple logo.
More info here...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04...bs_joins_ikea/
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Originally posted by starman:
April 1st?
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Originally posted by starman:
April 1st?
No, really?!
I though the article was kind of funny, at least in a euro-centric kind of way.
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Jobs, not Job's. We're going to run out apostrophes pretty soon, if people keep throwing them in where they don't belong.
I don't understand this mistake. It's extra typing! Why put a useless punctuation mark when you don't have to? I can see not capitalizing, or leaving out commas, but extra stuff?
But I guess enough people write your, instead of you're, that it might help balance things out.
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