Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
A false internet report that Apple's Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack briefly slammed his company's stock.
The Age (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
A false internet report that Apple's Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack briefly slammed his company's stock.
Mashable (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
A rumor purporting that Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack, published on CNN’s citizen journalism site iReport, briefly sent shares of Apple in a freefall this morning. While Apple quickly moved to quell the rumor, telling Silicon Alley Insider that the news was simply “not true,” in light of the recent concerns over Steve Jobs’ health, the news was enough to...
Content Bridges (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Good Morning Silicon Valley's John Murrell makes a simple, but vital, point in connecting the dots in the latest Steve Jobs health scare speculation. He describes how a CNN iReport got it wrong, and how the report sent the stock diving, before spawning another ill-informed web debate about "citizen journalism." John's post is worth a read. Here's a key passage: "We need, however,...
