Silicon Valley's Minister of Magic Steps Down

IN A commencement speech to students at Stanford University in 2005, Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, advised his audience to avoid being trapped by dogma and to have the courage to follow their hearts and their intuition. â??Stay hungry. Stay foolish,â? he said as he signed off. By following his own advice, Mr Jobs, who resigned as Appleâ??s boss on August 24th, has turned the company from a basket case on the brink of bankruptcy when he returned to its helm in 1997 into a world-beater that is reshaping a big chunk of the technology industry. Earlier this month, Apple even briefly surpassed Exxon Mobil, an oil giant, to become the worldâ??s most valuable company.