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Salesforce sets sights on Europe

Salesforce sets sights on Europe

...it lands larger enterprise software deals and eyes international expansion. George Hu, chief operating officer of Salesforce, speaking at a Wells Fargo technology conference on... Read more

5 April, 2012 by Larry Dignan

RIM chiefs Lazaridis and Balsillie step down

...veteran who joined RIM in 2007 as hardware engineering head before becoming chief operating officer in August last year. Lazaridis, who founded RIM in 1984... Read more

23 January, 2012 by David Meyer

Alibaba executives resign amid supplier fraud probe

...site. Photo credit: Enterprise UK/Flickr Chief executive officer David Wei and chief operating officer Elvis Lee Shi-Huei were not involved in the rise... Read more

22 February, 2011 by Steven Musil

Steve Jobs turns to Tim Cook for cover

...to focus on his health, Steve Jobs has again tapped Apple's chief operating officer Tim Cook to take the reins for him temporarily. While... Read more

18 January, 2011 by Erica Ogg

Twitter chief Evan Williams steps down

...on Monday on Twitter's official blog. Dick Costolo, currently serving as chief operating officer, has taken over. Williams, already well known in the tech... Read more

5 October, 2010 by Caroline McCarthy

Autonomy bosses jump HP ship

...Autonomy president and sales head Sushovan Hussain, chief research officer Peter Menell, chief operating officer Andrew Kanter, chief marketing officer Nicole Eagan, Aurasma augmented reality... Read more

24 May, 2012

Virgin Atlantic lets airborne passengers use mobiles

...connectivity in the air is always on the wish list," Virgin Atlantic chief operating officer Steve Griffiths said in a statement. "Many people will have... Read more

14 May, 2012

EMC eyes cloudscape with massive product push

...two men at the top of EMC, chief executive Joe Tucci and chief operating officer Pat Gelsinger, is that it is preparing for a future... Read more

22 May, 2012 by Nick Heath

ICANN prepares to reopen gTLD applications

...of new domains such as .coke. In a statement on Thursday, ICANN chief operating officer Akram Atallah said the reopening of the application system would... Read more

21 May, 2012

ICANN offers refunds over gTLD system shutdown

...of the list of applied-for new top-level domain names," ICANN chief operating officer Akram Atallah said in a statement on Monday. Generic top... Read more

8 May, 2012

ICANN to reveal extent of data breach

...were affected by the technical glitch in the TLD application system," ICANN chief operating officer Akram Atallah said in a statement. "In order to make... Read more

2 May, 2012

Microsoft talks up Windows 8 business features

...Microsoft has high hopes for Windows 8. Kevin Turner, the company's chief operating officer, said the operating system will provide the right platform for... Read more

6 March, 2012 by Jack Clark

Canonical tailors Ubuntu for enterprises

...sysadmin tools, and other software that organisations don't commonly support," Canonical chief operating officer Jane Silber said. "The first release includes VMware View, [the... Read more

14 February, 2012

EMC strikes servers with Project Lightning flash cards

...guys.""It's a mature business in that regard," Pat Gelsinger, its chief operating officer, told ZDNet UK in October. "But we are trying to... Read more

6 February, 2012 by Jack Clark

Ericsson, Qualcomm demo 4G-to-3G voice handover

...chipset, which "will enable 3G/LTE smartphones at high-volume price points", chief operating officer Steve Mollenkopf said in an earnings call. Ericsson said it... Read more

3 February, 2012 by David Meyer

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