Valleywag: laurene powell-jobs

A fake Steve Jobs pops up on Facebook

Owen Thomas — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:40:00 PDT

There's a "Steven P Jobs" on Facebook. But it's not Apple's CEO. How can I tell? The biographical details, which anyone can get from Wikipedia, are all correct. But the "About Me" section is a dead giveaway.

It reads, "Have a passion for really great products!" The exclamation point kills it for me. Add to that: He's not even in Facebook's Apple network. His wife, Laurene Powell-Jobs, and his daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs both have Facebook profiles, and they aren't on his friends list. Sadly, 75 Apple employees, drawn to any electronic hint of their cult leader, are.

I'm left wishing Dan Lyons had been the one to pull this stunt. The original Fake Steve Jobs would have made this Facebook page so convincing I would have believed it. And gladly.

Does this turtleneck make me look thin?

Paul Boutin — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:00:00 PDT

GeekSugar editor Heather Dale was surprised and thrilled when Mrs. Steve Jobs walked up and sat down next to her at Apple's MacBook event in Cupertino Tuesday. Laurene Powell-Jobs has an apple.com email address, but can you think of the last time you've seen her in public? She does the Invisible Girl act better than Jessica Alba. Post your better caption in the comments. Best one becomes the new headline. Yesterday's winner: rwe112, for "Dressing up as Neo for Halloween is so 2000."

Apple CEO Steve Jobs looks dangerously thin

Nicholas Carlson — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:40:00 PDT

Doctors diagnosed Apple CEO Steve Jobs with pancreatic cancer in October 2003. Jobs hid the news from Apple shareholders until July 2004 — after he'd explored all other alternatives to surgery, and had to schedule time away from the office to go under the knife. People watching the imperiously slim presenter at the WWDC today are finding it hard to look at Job's frailer-than-ever frame and not wonder if he's still suffering. "Time to get that man a medical marijuana prescription," says our own Jackson West. Or a decent meal. Gossip has it that wife Laurene Powell-Jobs has put Jobs on a radical, restrictive vegan diet.

Mrs. Steve Jobs vanishes from Facebook

Jordan Golson — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:20:10 PST

Steve Jobs isn't on Facebook. Now his wife has disappeared from the site. A few days ago, we posted about Laurene Powell-Jobs's Facebook page, and her curious membership in the Apple network, normally restricted to employees. Today, it has disappeared from view entirely. It's not visible to anyone searching for her name or from within the Apple network, to which she belongs.

Two likely scenarios: One, she cranked up Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's vaunted privacy controls, making her profile visible only to designated friends. Two, she used Facebook's new account-deletion tools to leave the site altogether.

However, this doesn't change our initial concern. Why does Powell-Jobs have an @apple.com email address if she doesn't work at the company? We confirmed her Apple email address through outside sources. We would contact Apple PR about it, but what are the odds we would get a response?

Steve Jobs isn't in Apple's Facebook network -- but his wife is

Jordan Golson — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:00:52 PST

Laurene Powell-Jobs, Steve Jobs's wife, is in the Apple network on Facebook. Isn't that for Apple employees only? To join an employer's Facebook network, users must have an approved email address. Only those whose addresses ends in @apple.com can join the Apple network. As far as we can determine, Powell-Jobs does not hold a position at Apple. If she did, Apple would certainly have to disclose it in SEC filings. So what is she doing in the Apple Facebook group? Her full Facebook profile is below.

What it reveals: Powell-Jobs is friends with a few notable people, including her stepdaughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs, and two children of Google.org head Larry Brilliant, Joe and Jon. (Don't you hate it when your parents' friends add you on Facebook?) She's also reviewed The Incredibles, a movie released by the Pixar studio her husband sold to Disney.