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Patents 'biggest threat' to Linux - Torvalds
News During a surprise guest appearance at Novell's annual BrainShare user conference, the Finnish open-source guru took part in a question-and-answer session with the networking-software company's chief executive and chairman Jack Messman and vice...
[March 23, 2004, 9:20]
BT to manage KCom's network
Blog Bill Halbert, Deputy Executive Chairman says, "This agreement is an important step in the transformation of the KCOM Group," said KCom deputy executive chairman Bill Halbert in a statement.It will allow us to reduce our fixed costs and capital...
[June 23, 2009, 17:39]
Tech luminaries bid Bill Gates adieu
News After the end of this month, Gates plans to spend only 20 percent of his time as a Microsoft chairman. Scott McNealy is chairman of Sun. Mitch Kapor is founder of Lotus, and chairman of the Mozilla Foundation.
[June 26, 2008, 16:07]
Symantec buys Veritas
News Bloom, Veritas' chief executive, will become vice-chairman and president. Thompson, Symantec's chief executive, serving as chairman and CEO. In a long-rumoured move, security software maker Symantec has said it will buy storage specialist Veritas...
[December 17, 2004, 9:45]
CA confirms Kumar's replacement
News Lewis Ranieri, who became board chairman last week, also joined CA's board in 2002 as an independent director. Cron, who was previously chief executive of Vivendi Universal Games, will take on chief executive responsibilities temporarily, as the...
[April 27, 2004, 9:15]
IBM names Palmisano as new chief executive
News Although he will step down as chief executive, Gerstner will remain chairman through 2002. Thompson, IBM vice chairman, will retire from the company and board on 1 September. Sam Palmisano will become IBM's chief executive 1 March, succeeding Lou...
[January 30, 2002, 8:59]
AOL IM may have shot itself in the foot Pt II
News Late last year, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates called William Kennard, then chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, urging him to closely examine AOL's IM dominance when studying the company's proposed merger with Time Warner.
[April 5, 2001, 12:24]
Giving by tech leaders tumbles
News Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman, remained the top philanthropist with a gift of $2bn to endow the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Fitzpatrick, former chairman of E-TEK Dynamics, who gave $50m for photonics research at Duke University and Stanford...
[January 3, 2002, 6:31]
Novell exec's start-up goes bust
News Novell Vice Chairman Chris Stone left Tilion this year for his second tour of duty. Stone is still listed as the chairman of the board on Tilion's Web site. Tilion, a business software company founded by Novell's number two executive, has ceased...
[June 18, 2002, 14:44]
HSBC commits to increased tech investment
News HSBC chairman Stephen Green said in the company's report: "We will shape our business operations so that we use our scale to deliver better, more efficient services to our customers. HSBC has also proposed Oracle president and chief financial...
[March 5, 2008, 9:01]
Forbes Global CEO forum to proceed
News Among the speakers are Computer Associates chairman Charles Wang, Sybase chairman John Chen, Cisco Systems Asia Pacific president Gordon Astles, Garage Technology Ventures chief executive Guy Kawasaki, UMC Group chairman Robert Tsao and Infineon...
[September 12, 2001, 12:11]
Satyam 'bullish' under new governance model
News The newly minted Mahindra Satyam — after a successful bid by Indian services giant Tech Mahindra — has tweaked its model of governance, which had been a "perceivable flaw", said Vineet Nayyar, executive vice chairman of Tech Mahindra and Mahindra...
[July 6, 2009, 9:32]
DEC, Microsoft tighten NT links
News In a live telecast from the US, Digital chairman Robert Palmer said: "[Many companies] might talk about ups and downs but we have only had ups. Also on a live video feed, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates described "a fantastic success".
[January 29, 1998, 11:57]
PeopleSoft boss gets the chop
News Dave Duffield, PeopleSoft's founder and chairman, will become the company's new chief executive officer. In addition, the company announced the appointment of Kevin Parker and Phil Wilmington as co-presidents, and Aneel Bhusri as vice-chairman of...
[October 1, 2004, 15:00]
Ziff-Davis Publishing sold for $780m
News Dunning, Jr.who will serve as chairman and CEO of the new Ziff-Davis Holdings and chairman of Ziff-Davis Publishing. We selected Willis Stein & Partners to be the new owner based on a number of factors, including their commitment and resources that...
[December 6, 1999, 14:49]
US Report: Another court hearing for Microsoft
News The hearing follows proceedings in March at which the committee grilled Microsoft Chairman and CEO Bill Gates on his company's business practices and heard testimony from Dell CEO Michael Dell, Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale and Sun CEO Scott McNealy.
[July 10, 1998, 13:33]
Hayes to merge with remote access firm
News However, sources said Formichelli will be chief executive of the new company while Hayes' founder Dennis Hayes will be its chairman. Ron Howard, the chief executive of Access Beyond, will serve as Hayes' vice chairman and executive vice president.
[July 30, 1997, 9:35]
RSA namesakes win Turing honours
News Adleman, who created the algorithm, RSA conference chairman Jim Bidzos told the conference. According to this subjective analysis, reckoned RSA vice-chairman Jim Bidzos, the vulnerability and threat indexes were both up, at a level of 8 out of 10...
[April 15, 2003, 10:22]
The Day Ahead: Dot-coms grow up, chief execs step out
News Enter the visionary chairman. After the company's latest quarterly results, which are still being debated, Carpenter decided she'd be better off as chairman. The other three chief exec-to-chairman moves were under better circumstances -- and made a...
[July 31, 2000, 12:35]
NHS IT timescale questioned as iSoft CEO resigns
News Whiston’s temporary replacement will be the company’s chairman, John Weston, who is reported to have sought headhunters to fill the top job even before iSoft restated its accounts last week. Last year, ex-chairman Patrick Cryne sold 3.5 million of...
[June 15, 2006, 9:40]
