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Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web on a NeXT computer at CERN. 72The revised, second generation NeXTcube was released in 1990, also. Jobs touted it as the first interpersonal computer that would replace the personal computer. With its innovative NeXTMail multimedia email system, NeXTcube could share voice, image, graphics, and video in email for the first time. Interpersonal computing is going to revolutionize human communications and groupwork, Jobs told reporters. 73 Jobs ran NeXT with an obsession for aesthetic perfection, as evidenced by the development of and attention to NeXTcubes magnesium case. 74 This put considerable strain on NeXTs hardware division, and in 1993, after having sold only 50,000 machines, NeXT transitioned fully to software development with the release of NeXTSTEP/Intel. 75 The company reported its first profit of 1.03160million in 1994. 67 In 1996, NeXT Software, Inc. released WebObjects, a framework for Web application development. After NeXT was acquired by Apple Inc. in 1997, WebObjects was used to build and run the Apple Store, 75 MobileMe services, and the iTunes Store.In 1986, Jobs funded the spinout of The Graphics Group (later renamed Pixar) from Lucasfilms computer graphics division for the price of 10160million, 5160million of which was given to the company as capital and 5160million of which was paid to Lucasfilm for technology rights. 5The first film produced by the partnership, Toy Story (1995), with Jobs credited as executive producer, 76 brought fame and critical acclaim to the studio when it was released. Over the next 15 years, under Pixars creative chief John Lasseter, the company produced box-office hits A Bugs Life (1998) Toy Story 2 (1999) Monsters, Inc. (2001) Finding Nemo (2003) The Incredibles (2004) Cars (2006) Ratatouille (2007) WALL-E (2008) Up (2009) and Toy Story 3 (2010). Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up and Toy Story 3 each received the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, an award introduced in 2001. 77In 2003 and 2004, as Pixars contract with Disney was running out, Jobs and Disney chief executive Michael Eisner tried but failed to negotiate a new partnership, 78 and in early 2004, Jobs announced that Pixar would seek a new partner to distribute its films after its contract with Disney expired.In October 2005, Bob Iger replaced Eisner at Disney, and Iger quickly worked to mend relations with Jobs and Pixar. On January 24, 2006, Jobs and Iger announced that Disney had agreed to purchase Pixar in an all-stock transaction worth 7.4160billion. When the deal closed, Jobs became The Walt Disney Companys largest single shareholder with approximately seven percent of the companys stock. 79 Jobss holdings in Disney far exceeded those of Eisner, who holds 1.7 percent, and of Disney family member Roy E. Disney, who until his 2009 death held about one percent of the companys stock and whose criticisms of Eisner especially that he soured Disneys relationship with Pixar accelerated Eisners ousting. Upon completion of the merger, Jobs received 7 of Disney shares, and joined the board of directors as the largest individual shareholder. 79 80 81 Upon Jobss death his shares in Disney were transferred to the Steven P. Jobs Trust led by Laurene Jobs. 82Floyd Norman, of Pixar, described Jobs as a mature, mellow individual who never interfered with the creative process of the filmmakers. 83 In early June 2014, Pixar cofounder and Walt Disney President Ed Catmull revealed that Jobs once advised him to just explain it to them until they understand in disagreements. Catmull released the book Creativity Inc. in 2014, in which recounts numerous experiences of working with Jobs. Regarding his own manner of dealing with Jobs, Catmull writes:In all the 26 years with Steve, Steve and I never had one of these loud verbal arguments and its not my nature to do that. ... but we did disagree fairly frequently about things. ... I would say something to him and he would immediately shoot it down because he could think faster than I could. ... I would then wait a week ... Id call him up and I give my counter argument to what he had said and hed immediately shoot it down. So I had to wait another week, and sometimes this went on for months. But in the end one of three things happened. About a third of the time he said, Oh, I get it, youre right. And that was the end of it. And it was another third of the time in which Id say, Actually I think he is right. The other third of the time, where we didnt reach consensus, he just let me do it my way, never said anything more about it. 84Chrisann Brennan notes that after Jobs was forced out of Apple, he apologized many times over for his behavior towards her and Lisa. She also states that Jobs said that he never took responsibility when he should have, and that he was sorry. 13 By this time, Jobs had developed a strong relationship with Lisa and when she was nine, Jobs had her birth certificate changed and her name went from Lisa Brennan to Lisa Brennan-Jobs. 13 In addition, Jobs and Brennan developed a working relationship to co-parent Lisa, a change Brennan credits to the influence of his newly found biological sister, Mona Simpson (who worked to repair the relationship between Lisa and Jobs). 13 Jobs found Mona after first finding his birth mother, Joanne Schieble Simpson, shortly after he left Apple. 2Jobs did not contact his birth family during Claras (his adoptive mother) lifetime, however. He would later tell his official biographer Walter Isaacson: I never wanted Paul and Clara to feel like I didnt consider them my parents, because they were totally my parents ... I loved them so much that I never wanted them to know of my search, and I even had reporters keep it quiet when any of them found out. 2 However, in 1986 when he was 31, Clara was diagnosed with lung cancer. He began to spend a great deal of time with her and learned more details about her background and his adoption, information that motivated him to find his biological mother. Jobs found the name of the San Francisco doctor to whom Schieble had turned when she was pregnant on his birth certificate.