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Sun rings in executive changes
News The moves mark the first major executive changes at Sun following Friday's sweeping agreement between that company and Microsoft. A Sun representative declined to comment on any executive changes. Sun Microsystems software executive John Loiacono...
[April 5, 2004, 16:05]
Microsoft restructures platform group
News Microsoft announced executive changes within its Platform and Services Division on Tuesday, with longtime top Windows engineer and executive Brian Valentine set to take on a new role once Vista is commercially available.
[August 2, 2006, 9:50]
PalmSource CEO steps down
News David Nagel has resigned as PalmSource chief executive, president and director, a move that follows a series of executive changes in the past several months at the struggling maker of the Palm handheld operating system.
[May 24, 2005, 12:45]
Dell product group gets reboot
News After a year many at the company would like to forget, Dell is making significant changes to its executive line-up and structure. Dell is hoping the executive and group changes will breathe some life back into an organisation that was on everyone's...
[December 13, 2006, 7:45]
AMD denies executive rumours
News AMD's chairman and chief executive Hector Ruiz's role at the company has not changed, AMD said, contrary to rumours that Ruiz plans to step down as chief executive. Some interpreted the memo as a harbinger of Ruiz's departure, and rumours that...
[April 10, 2006, 8:50]
Bill Gates steps down as Microsoft CEO
News Microsoft's announcement of executive and strategy changes comes at the end of a busy week for the company. I'll spend almost 100 percent of my time on new technologies," said Gates, who announced the executive changes during a live press...
[January 14, 2000, 8:51]
Yahoo hits refresh with exec shake-up
News At least some of the executive changes were involuntary. The new structure leaves chief executive Jerry Yang and president Susan Decker at the top of the organisation. Yahoo underwent an executive exodus in the last two weeks, losing three...
[June 27, 2008, 9:48]
Keeping innovation alive at Adobe
News During his seven years as chief executive (and 14 years with the company), Chizen has overseen dramatic changes at Adobe, most significantly its merger with Macromedia in 2005. Adobe Systems chief executive Bruce Chizen found the right moment to...
[November 16, 2007, 12:45]
BayStar wants management changes at SCO
News Regarding executive changes, SCO on Tuesday changed one member of its senior management, with chief financial officer Bob Bench handing his job to Bert Young. Regarding a replacement for chief executive Darl McBride or other top executives, he said...
[April 22, 2004, 12:45]
AMD merges processor and graphics units
News The products group — one of four new groups announced on Wednesday — will be headed by graphics chip executive Rick Bergman, who joined AMD after its $5.4bn (£3.6bn) acquisition of graphics chip company ATI in 2006.
[May 7, 2009, 9:39]
Lenovo sharpens vision under new leadership
News Last week the Chinese PC maker announced it had cut ties with Bill Amelio, its chief executive of three years, and installed company chairman Yang Yuanqing as the new chief executive. I don't think the fundamental strategy changes in a significant...
[February 19, 2009, 8:32]
Yahoo CEO Yang to step down
News It's unclear at this stage what changes will come with a new chief executive, but one possibility is another shot at a deal with Microsoft. Yahoo, under fierce financial pressure, has begun a search to replace company co-founder Jerry Yang as chief...
[November 18, 2008, 7:29]
Open source firms 'to be consumed by wave of consolidation'
News A wave of consolidation is sweeping the IT industry, and many open source business applications will be left behind when customers pare down their suppliers, an SAP executive predicted Wednesday. But those rivals are too immature to make it, said...
[February 16, 2006, 9:05]
Ellison steps down from chairman role
News He's been interested in retiring for a while and is spending more and more time at his home in Santa Barbara," said the former Oracle executive. Safra Catz and Chuck Phillips, both executive vice presidents, will serve as co-presidents and report...
[January 13, 2004, 16:25]
Panasonic's plasma focus
News When he took over as chief executive of Panasonic's North American division in mid-2004, one of the first things Yoshi Yamada did was eliminate the executive parking spots. He then demolished the floor that held the executive offices and replaced...
[January 23, 2006, 11:15]
HP on the road to recovery
News HP is on the road to recovery and focusing on markets that will help grow revenue by 4 percent to 6 percent in fiscal 2007, chief executive Mark Hurd told Wall Street analysts on Tuesday. Vyomesh Joshi, executive vice-president of the imaging and...
[December 14, 2005, 9:15]
PeopleSoft executive leaves the company
News The appointment of Swete, who was called out of retirement to take the job, is one of the first changes to PeopleSoft's management ranks since Conway was fired and replaced by board chairman Dave Duffield, who also is a founder and former chief...
[October 15, 2004, 18:25]
Microsoft takes a SIP of office networking
News Information technology and telecommunications systems are converging in the corporation, and Microsoft hopes to play a key role in bringing the pieces together, according to a company executive. In a keynote speech on Tuesday at the Voice on the...
[April 2, 2003, 11:30]
Ofcom approves landmark BT restructuring
News Ofcom is hopeful that this new approach to competition regulation will stimulate investment, innovation and sustainable growth in this critical industrial sector,” said Ofcom chief executive Stephen Carter.
[September 22, 2005, 10:10]
Still no cure for Yahoo's complaint
News She was named president in the management change last month that swept co-founder Yang to the chief executive spot and former chief executive Terry Semel off to the sidelines as a non-executive chairman of the board.
[July 18, 2007, 8:50]
