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Google co-founder chases Yahoo ad deal
News Google co-founder Larry Page has said that he respects Yahoo's struggle to remain independent, and there is still a chance that an advertising deal between the two companies could work. Speaking at an event Thursday in Washington, DC, Page said a...
[May 23, 2008, 8:54]
Netscape co-founder Andreessen joins HP board
News Andreessen is best known as co-founder of Netscape and co-author of web browser Mosaic. Netscape founder Marc Andreessen has joined HP's board of directors, two years after selling his software company Opsware to the PC giant.
[September 18, 2009, 16:57]
Sun co-founder set to depart
News Sun Microsystems on Tuesday said that Bill Joy, its co-founder and chief scientist, is leaving the company. Joy co-founded Sun, originally an acronym for Stanford University Network, with McNealy in 1982.
[September 9, 2003, 15:25]
MySQL co-founder clarifies closed-source strategy
News MySQL's move to begin offering parts of its namesake database as closed source only will apply only to plug-ins, according to co-founder David Axmark. Clarifying reports that emerged from the MySQL conference in Florida last week, MySQL co-founder...
[April 25, 2008, 16:54]
Sun co-founder returns to fold
News Not surprisingly, Sun executives were much more enthusiastic in talking about Bechtolsheim's return than about the 2003 departure of another co-founder, Bill Joy. Nine years after leaving the server maker he co-founded in 1982, Andy Bechtolsheim is...
[February 18, 2004, 10:55]
AOL co-founder steps down
News AOL co-founder Steve Case stepped down from Time Warner's board of directors as the Internet division tries to make a comeback. We have great respect for his long record of achievement - as a co-founder of AOL to a valuable member of our board.
[November 1, 2005, 16:15]
Sun acquires firm employing its co-founder
News Sun Microsystems has agreed to acquire Kealia, a start-up that designs servers with Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor and that employs Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim. Sun chief executive and fellow co-founder Scott McNealy greeted...
[February 11, 2004, 7:50]
Mandriva co-founder booted from Linux firm
News Gael Duval, a co-founder of Linux seller Mandriva, is among employees who lost their jobs at the company after it became unprofitable in its most recent financial quarter. To deal with the situation, the company announced the elimination of...
[March 16, 2006, 9:35]
Reduced role for Sun co-founder Bechtolsheim
News Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim is shifting to a reduced role at the Silicon Valley stalwart as he turns his attention to getting yet another start-up off the ground. The company's PR team quickly responded by saying there were a "few inaccurate...
[October 24, 2008, 12:53]
Microsoft co-founder hits investment slump
News Several of the Microsoft co-founder's high-profile ventures have folded or declared bankruptcy during the past two years, including Metricom and Mercata. Billionaire technocrat Paul Allen wants to build companies that promote his vision of a "wired...
[May 13, 2002, 15:48]
Netscape co-founder eyes up video blogs
News 24 Hour Laundry (24HL) is a blogging and social networking site for consumers that will include video, according to sources familiar with the company's plans. The company -- which boasts alumni from Netscape, Google and Excite -- is currently...
[June 15, 2005, 9:50]
Hotmail co-founder launches Microsoft Office rival
News One of the co-founders of Hotmail has launched a free, online office productivity suite. Playing in the same space as both Microsoft Office and Google Docs, Sabeer Bhatia's Live Documents was launched on Wednesday.
[November 23, 2007, 15:07]
Carphone Warehouse co-founder resigns
News Carphone Warehouse co-founder David Ross has resigned after failing to declare that he had used shares in the company as collateral against personal loans. Ross resigned as a director on Sunday after using 136.4 million of his shares in Carphone...
[December 8, 2008, 12:59]
Moore has trouble seeing past silicon
News Although many believe the future of the computing industry lies with building chips out of carbon nanotubes or other novel materials, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted it won't be easy to replace silicon.
[March 10, 2005, 8:30]
Vonage and Verizon go head-to-head in court
News A Vonage co-founder insisted in federal court on Tuesday that his company never copied Verizon's internet telephony systems, while a Verizon executive maintained that the rival company's alleged infringement has done serious harm.
[February 28, 2007, 8:17]
From Kosovo to Haiti: TSF's Emergency Communications for Disaster Relief
Blog By Monique Lanne-Petit, director and co-founder of Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) As volunteers working with missions responding to the crises in the Balkans and in Kurdistan during the first Gulf War, TSF co-founder Jean-François Cazenave and I...
[September 17, 2008, 9:49]
FriendsReunited 'not for sale'
News Earlier this year founder Steve Pankhurst announced he and co-founder Julia Pankhurst were considering a number of options for the company, valued at around £25m, one of which was a sale. The owners of FriendsReunited.co.uk have back-tracked on...
[March 4, 2003, 9:29]
Yahoo CEO Semel steps down
News Yahoo chief executive Terry Semel stepped down on Monday and handed the reins of the struggling search company to co-founder Jerry Yang after six years on the job. Co-founder David Filo will oversee the technology organisation until a replacement...
[June 19, 2007, 8:11]
Making Yahoo's platform more social
News In January, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Yahoo chief executive and co-founder Jerry Yang offered a glimpse of Yahoo's next-generation, socially networked user experience. We are taking existing products and services, making them...
[September 16, 2008, 15:10]
Debian start-up wants more funding
News Progeny, a start-up seeking to commercialise the Debian version of Linux, is on the prowl for new funding, a company co-founder has confirmed. Ian Murdock, chief strategy officer and a co-founder of both Debian and Progeny, said his company has...
[August 15, 2005, 9:15]
