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Apple confirms new laptop imminent
News Apple interim CEO Steve Jobs will announce the product at a keynote speech at MacWorld in New York next Wednesday. Apple is growing faster than the industry," commented interim CEO Steve Jobs. It is thought the laptop will be along the lines of the...
[July 15, 1999, 12:44]
Compaq woes to continue in Q2
News Rosen, chairman and acting CEO. The company has been silent regarding the search for a new CEO. The company ousted then-CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer and financial chief Earl Mason in April. The company cited PC pricing pressures for its problems.
[June 17, 1999, 13:57]
US Report: Tech execs will meet with the FBI over crypto
News Though a final list of attendees remains in flux, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, Netscape CEO James Barksdale, America Online Chairman Steve Case, AT&T CEO Michael Armstrong, Sun Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy and MCI President Timothy Price are...
[June 1, 1998, 14:32]
CompuServe resignations fuel merger speculation
News Kauffman is joining a California startup called KlickOver as president and CEO. In February, CEO Bob Massey retired. In early April we were in outside merger talks, and under those circumstances the CEO search got put on hold," said CompuServe...
[August 18, 1997, 10:18]
Young, rich and wired
News The list was topped by 34-year-old Dell Computer CEO Michael Dell, whose worth Fortune calculated at $21.49bn (£13.3bn). Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos comes in second at $5.74bn, and Dell's chief rival Gateway CEO Ted Waitt is third, at $5.44bn.
[September 6, 1999, 14:03]
Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers
Talkback Your CEO comments are inappropiate & unacceptable to me .had greatly dissappoint me as an OpenSource follower. Your CEO are spitting into the wind. REDHAT ! You had dissappointed me. I introduce you to my friend (who is ms pro) .yet when they had...
[November 5, 2003, 3:26]
MS V DoJ - Ready for round II?
News Microsoft is calling AOL senior vice president David Colburn, former Symantec CEO Gordon Eubanks, and MIT Professor Richard Schmalensee. DoJ lawyers pulled out videos of Gates' deposition, where the CEO evaded questions, rocked back in forth in his...
[May 4, 1999, 9:45]
Sun and Microsoft: True love or a marriage of convenience?
News With payments of $1.95bn to Sun and the onstage reconciliation between Sun CEO Scott McNealy and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer -- bitter rivals for many years -- expectations for the landmark, 10-year agreement are high.
[December 3, 2004, 12:50]
Analysis: Does Apple have a future? Don't ask a Mac-Moony
News No surprise then, that when a former CEO writes a book stating that Jobs is a two faced git who knows bugger all about technology, and that the great Satan Gates is actually quite a nice chap, that the cult should be mobilised to protest.
[March 26, 1998, 17:04]
Sun/Oracle plans - don't get excited says MS
News Sun CEO Scott McNealy and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said Monday that they are working on a system where the OS is virtually invisible and that their new strategy for accessing data through a network is better than Microsoft's plans to put mini...
[December 16, 1998, 16:16]
Quotes of the Week, September 30-October 4
News This job is more rewarding," - Netscape's CEO James Barksdale on turning down the position of AT&T CEO. "[The K6] will have the full MMX instruction set licensed from Intel, not the Cyrix let's-see-if-we-can-get-it-working approach.
[October 4, 1996, 15:30]
Peapod's salad days may have ended
News Earlier this month the resignation for health reasons of its CEO, William Malloy, prompted venture capitalists to drop a planned investment of $120m (£74m). Andrew Parkinson, founder and acting CEO, said in a statement: "We are working closely with...
[March 31, 2000, 9:18]
ICL sheds manufacturing arm D2D
News The sale is in keeping with ICL's plans to transform itself into a systems and services company, as outlined by CEO Keith Todd, last year. This acquisition is part of Celestica's ultimate goal to provide our services and products in all three...
[January 21, 1997, 10:27]
Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers
Talkback The comments made by several people about the commercialization interest of Redhat may lead into to such outragious announcement ever heard from CEO of a company who is endorsing his competator. If the announcment of the Redhat CEO is to make...
[November 6, 2003, 8:26]
UK leads record quarter for Dell
News In a conference call, Dell CEO Kevin Rollins said the vendor will now raise its goal in terms of annual revenues to $80bn, up from the $60bn it has worked to for the last few years and now looks set to reach around 12 months sooner than expected.
[February 11, 2005, 10:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog He was at a big Red Hat press do, enjoying the hospitality and the company's famously charismatic and quotable CEO, Matthew Szulik. It's true -- of course it's true, we all know it -- and there really shouldn't be any mileage in "CEO SPEAKS TRUTH...
[November 7, 2003, 15:55]
VMworld Europe: Conference Blog Day 1
Blog Most of us are shuffling towards a last minute croissant and café noir right now as we get ready for VMware CEO Diane Greene’s keynote. With a carefully memorised “bienvenue” and a “merci beaucoup” from VMware CEO Diane Greene, the statistics and...
[February 26, 2008, 5:56]
Ellison steps down from chairman role
News Safra Catz and Chuck Phillips, both executive vice presidents, will serve as co-presidents and report to CEO Larry Ellison, who had also served as the company's chairman. But the management changes announced on Monday don't clarify whom, if anyone...
[January 13, 2004, 16:25]
US Report: Raw Iron alerts sceptics
News The goal is to produce machines, due by March, that offer better reliability and performance as well as less complexity, according to Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison. All the complexity of the operating system has been hidden," Ellison said...
[December 21, 1998, 9:42]
BIBLE: Ten hot valley startups
News Led by CEO Keith Teare, RealNames has big ambitions, even for Silicon Valley. Vincent Pluvinage CEO, says, "We are currently engaged with five of the major record labels in working out a distribution channel.
[November 10, 1999, 13:40]
