Thursday, February 17, 2011

Obama, Apple and Facebook

The president will go this afternoon to Air Force One and will head west to take his message that we need a huge investment in education, as a trained work force will be much better able to attract jobs and allow the U.S. to compete with the rest of the world. One of the highlights of the visit of Barack Obama will hold the meeting in San Francisco with the CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

According to White House sources, the meeting will also attend the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, and the president of General Electric, Jeffrey Immelt. In line with the messages in the morning has issued this correspondent on Twitter, a fan asked: "What Bill Gates?". Obama will be in "friendly territory" when it comes to California, where they will have to fend off criticism from Republicans about what they consider excessive spending.

The president also will travel tomorrow to Hillsboro (Oregon) to see first hand the Intel factory that produces semiconductors for automatic processors. Intel has an education program that includes the use of the Internet to students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Obama's meeting with Jobs is also surrounded by speculation after last month the Minister announced that Apple took a new sick-the third in seven years and this time indefinitely, to pursue health .

Jobs survived pancreatic cancer in 2004 and received a liver transplant in early 2009. Today, the company Apple's Jobs confirmed the presence at the meeting but did not provide any other information about the health of his boss. With his trip to the West, Obama tries to prove he is close to the innovative leaders who are grown in the United States and while not afraid to speak out in support of education spending because he thinks that is the key to winning the future.

The White House has said that the meeting falls within the regular discussions that the president has been having with business leaders to explore ways to collaborate to expand the economy and create jobs. The meeting will be closed. "Undoubtedly, these people are business representatives, who know a lot about the growth of employment in the private sector," said the new White House spokesman, Jay Carney.

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