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      • This week marks the 25th anniversary of Apple announcing that it had agreed to acquire NeXT for $400 million. The stunning move brought Steve Jobs back to Apple over a decade after he left the company following an internal power struggle.
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      25 Years Ago, Apple Acquired NeXT and Brought Back Steve Jobs

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    Jul 16, 2023 · As Apple’s struggles intensified, the company’s board made a pivotal decision in 1996: to acquire NeXT and bring Steve Jobs back into the fold.

  5. www.cultofmac.com › news › apple-buys-nextToday in Apple history: NeXT acquisition brings Steve Jobs back

    Dec 20, 2023 · December 20, 1996: Apple Computer buys NeXT, the company Steve Jobs founded after leaving Cupertino a decade earlier. The deal costs Apple $429 million. It’s a massive price to pay for the...

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    Sep 16, 2024 · Steve Jobs returns to Apple in 1997. The $400 million sale of NeXT to Apple in December 1996 brought Jobs back into Cupertino’s fold. At the time, the company was run by Gil Amelio, a...

  8. www.businessinsider.in › tech › the-story-of-howThe story of how Steve Jobs saved Apple from disaster and led ...

    • In late 1996, Apple announced plans to bring cofounder Steve Jobs back into the fold 11 years after he left the company by acquiring his startup NeXT for $429 million — just in time for Jobs to join then-Apple CEO Gil Amelio on stage at January 1997's Macworld Expo, a convention for Mac enthusiasts, as a keynote speaker.
    • Steve Jobs' NeXT found its niche selling graphically intensive PCs with cutting-edge screens to universities and banks. Apple hoped that Jobs would revitalize the Mac maker, whose stock had hit a 12-year low under Amelio's leadership and experienced crippling losses.
    • On July 4, 1997, Jobs persuaded Apple's board to oust Amelio and make Jobs the interim, and then permanent, CEO. In August 1997, Jobs took the stage at another Macworld Expo to announce that Apple had taken a $150 million investment from its long-time rivals at Microsoft.
    • In fact, by 1997, Apple's financial situation was so dire that Dell CEO and founder Michael Dell, one of Microsoft's biggest partners, once said that if he were in Jobs' shoes, he'd "shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders."

  9. www.cnet.com › apple-acquires-next-jobsApple acquires Next, Jobs - CNET

    Dec 21, 1996 · In a stunning move, Apple Computer said tonight that it will purchase Next Software in a $400 million deal that will bring former Apple CEO Steve Jobs back to the company he cofounded.

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    Dec 24, 2021 · The stunning move brought Steve Jobs back to Apple over a decade after he left the company following an internal power struggle. Here's a look back.