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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs module listen a gathering in Calif. on weekday with President Barack Obama, a maker old with the gathering said.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, General Electric Co Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt, Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt module also listen the meeting, the maker told Reuters.

The timing of the gathering coincides with a report in the National Enquirer with pictures purporting to be of a anorectic Jobs incoming at the businessman Cancer Center. The report is unverified.

The report cites doctors, who are not treating Jobs, locution he has sextet weeks to springy based on the photos.

Shares of Apple slipped 1 percent in premarket trade.

Obama is air to San Francisco after on Thursday. In California, he is gathering with a sort of playing leaders in technology and conception at a private residence, the White House said.

The White House has been actuation lately to improve its relations with the playing community. Since his man Democrats were routed in mid-term elections in November, the president has been making a conjunctive effort to heal a rift with the U.S. joint community.

Thursday's gathering module address issues including how to alter the U.S. economy, hold entrepreneurship and create jobs in the United States, the White House said.

(Reporting by Patricia Zengerle, editing by Vicki Allen, Dave Zimmerman)

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