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Worlds going. >> reporter: apples total market value recently reached about $340 billion. its valuation is neck in neck with exxonmobil at the top of the heap for public companies. the company has 47,000 employees. those are just numbers. by the time jobs was done, he set a new standard for geeks, dreamers and business schools everywhere. built silicon valleys most valuable company and brought industries to their knees. but it wasnt all glory and success for jobs. apples board forced him out in ...

Something different about steve jobs. he has been irreplaceable. apple knows that. apple didnt even bother trying to replace him. tim cook is a very different kind of leader, and thats fine. you know, when i think about steve jobs, i dont just think about a ceo. i think about a visionary. i think about somebody who knew how to package products, deliver them and then tell the tale of them on stage in a way that, you know, people try and do and they just fail. >> weve been watching video of him on...

>> dr. nancy snyderman. thanks for joining me tonight. >> you bet, lawrence. >> well be back with more on the life and death of steve jobs. the genius behind apple who died today at the age of 56. ♪ [ female announcer ] find yourself sometimes cleaning up after your dishcloth? bounty extra soft can help. its super durable, and in this lab test bounty extra soft leaves this surface three times cleaner than a dishcloth. even with just one sheet. super clean. super soft. bounty extra soft. in the...

Number of products because each one had to be blessed by its ceo. even the image that apple portrayed to the world was largely crafted by steve jobs, personally, as was most of the relationships that resided around him. he was unique in the segment. >> rob, tim cook, the new head of apple, had the misfortune yesterday, i guess, of having to take the stage with the toughest act to follow in the technology industry. to introduce a new edition of the iphone. some of the reviews were not so good, bu...

Really just profoundly odd not to see steve jobs up there on stage in his little black turtle neck and his jeans. as there were those years in the late 80s and early 90s when steve jobs worked somewhere else. despite that, when you thought of apple, you thought of steve jobs. we thought of apple a lot. just as much as apple was and still is, it changed the way america consumes media and uses the power of commuting. it all began in 1984 with the companys first big press conference to introduce it...

Revolution to be done a different way as we saw this year in tahrir square and in egypt. that this was a revolution enabled by the technology that some of these people, like bill gates and definitely steve jobs, thought up in their garages a generation ago. >> well, the difference between gates and -- bill gates and steve jobs, in my estimation, having kind of lived through the development of all these products, is that bill gates was for people who wanted to lift up the hood, for the gearheads,...

At this point in the afternoon -- late afternoon in california. joining me now is lance ulenoff, editor and chief of mashinable.com and former editor of "pc" magazine. thanks for joining me tonight, lance. >> thanks for having me on. >> you were a friend of steve jobs for a very long time. what is your reaction to where we are tonight with this news? >> well, i should say, you know, im stunned. i worked with apple for year, you know, talking to them about products. ive been in the same room with...

Ipad 2 and its icloud initiative, but then jobs announced his resignation saying he could no longer perform his duties as apple ceo. a creative titan of american business. hes survived by his wife, laurene, and four children. [ sniffs ] i have a cold. [ sniffs ] i took dayquil but my nose is still runny. [ male announcer ] truth is, dayquil doesnt treat that. really? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms, plus it relieves your runny nose. [ deep breath] awesome. [ ...

Liver. good news that he got a liver transplant, but guarded news in that any time you get an organ transplant, you have to go on medicines that suppress your immune system and that always raised the question of whether it would hurt his immune system and allow the cancer to grow back. most people with his cancer, maybe two or three years, but the survival rate overall is well below 10%. i just have to say, based on the conversation listening to you guys the last few minutes, i think the country...

Liver transplant. five months later, back at the job at apple, he expressed his gratitude. >> i now have a liver of a mid 20s person who died in a car crash and was generous enough to donate their organs. and i wouldnt be here without such generosity. >> reporter: on august 24th of this year he stepped down as apples ceo. back in 2005, he offered this bit of advice to the stanford university grads. >> your time is limited so dont waste it living someone elses life. dont let the noise of others o...