Steve Jobs to visit India in April

BANGALORE: Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computers, is likely to visit Bangalore in the first week of April.

He is expected to launch Apple's R&D center and technical support facility for its products here. The company plans to hire 3000 people in India by 2007, it is learnt.

According to sources, this is a rare visit for Jobs who is usually conservative in his travel plans. The only Asian country he has visited in his official capacity is Japan.

Jobs has special affinity to India. He had spent four years in the 1970's as a “hippie spiritual tourist” visiting holy places in the country.

Jobs admires India as one of the fast growing economies in the world. The company currently accounts for just around four percent market share in India for its products.