Obama Talked R&D With Jobs, Zuckerberg
Posted in: Miscellaneous at 19/02/2011 20:15
Research spending and technology exports were some of the menu items Thursday evening when President Barack Obama sat down for dinner with corporate chieftains from Apple Inc., Facebook Inc. and Google Inc.
At the home of venture capitalist John Doerr just outside San Francisco, Mr. Obama met with Apple's Steve Jobs, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Google's Eric Schmidt, among others. The overall aim of the meeting was for Mr. Obama to discuss his competitiveness agenda, and to find new ways the government and private sector can work together to lift the shaky economy.
To read this report in The Wall Street Journal in full, see:
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704900004576152254129083120.html
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US President Barack Obama has met Silicon Valley bosses, including Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Apple's Steve Jobs and Google chief executive Eric Schmidt were also present at the private get-together in California.
The president had been seeking the views of technology leaders as he works to turn around his country's ailing economy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12503494
