It has been on the minds of quite the bunch of business minds for the past year or so on account of his statement that he would take medical leave of absence.

Though it’s unclear what the reason is for the medical leave, Jobs’ medical history includes a bout of pancreatic cancer and a liver transplant. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the earlier part of 2004 and even though he beat it, it kept taking shots at his overall health. He then underwent a liver transplant in 2009, and made a full recovery.

Back then Tim Cook, the company’s COO took over the running of day-to-day operations at the firm as is the case with the more recent case.

In a statement to his employees and corporate family he said,

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There has been a shake up at Google.

Yes, we have a new CEO. Well, not exactly new.. but you get the idea.

Larry Page will replace Eric Schmidt as the new CEO sometime in this quarter and the latter will go on to be the company’s Executive chairman. This move comes amid complaints from seemingly dissatisfied employees that it is/has become harder and harder for new ideas to climb up the corporate ladder possibly due to increased bureaucracy.

On the other hand, Sergey Brin, who is a co-founder and was the president of technology at Google and has also shared power with the other two, will work on “strategic projects in the year” Google said. Read more »