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SuSE founder walks out of Novell
News SuSE co-founder and kernel team member Hubert Mantel has resigned from Novell, the server software company that acquired the German Linux company in 2004. Mantel announced the move on a SuSE Linux mailing list Tuesday, and Novell confirmed the move...
[November 10, 2005, 8:25]
Facebook founder voted top man in tech
News Mark Zuckerberg, the 23-year-old founder and chief executive of social networking site Facebook, has been named the most influential person in technology for 2007. The vote saw social networking and blogging make a real impression, with Rob Pardo...
[October 17, 2007, 16:28]
Freenet founder launches business P2P product
News That's a far cry from the radical anticensorship drive of co-founder Ian Clarke, whose Freenet project which first brought him and Uprizer into the public eye. Hard drive space and processors are cheap enough that a company could simply buy a few...
[May 1, 2002, 12:46]
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]
Red Hat founder joins the circus
News Known for sporting a crimson fedora at trade shows, the founder and one-time chairman of Linux software maker Red Hat now plans to don the duds of a ringmaster when he kicks off his latest venture, Lulu Tech Circus, at the end of this month.
[September 5, 2002, 8:05]
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]
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 helped develop many Sun technologies, including its Java software, SPARC microprocessor architecture and the Solaris operating system.
[September 9, 2003, 15:25]
Dell founder invests in Red Hat
News Michael Dell, the founder and chairman of Dell, has invested a significant sum of money into Linux vendor Red Hat. Nearly $100m (£53.1m) of Red Hat debentures were bought by MSD Capital on behalf of the Dell founder, according to business news site...
[May 10, 2005, 14:30]
Xansa founder honoured with BCS award
News The BCS Lifetime Achievement Award 2004 went to Dame Stephanie Shirley, the founder of IT services group Xansa. The British Computer Society (BCS) IT Professional Awards ceremony took place on Tuesday night in London.
[October 20, 2004, 18:05]
Meta founder advises detox for 'hungover' companies
News So says Dale Kutnick, Meta Group founder and co-research director, in London this week to talk about how companies can use IT to haul themselves out of current predicaments. Managing IT well in a downturn is all about managing supplier...
[October 25, 2002, 8:28]
Yahoo's founder responds to China criticism
News Yahoo executives feel "horrible" about political arrests of Internet users in China but believe it's better to operate in that market and cooperate with authorities than not be there at all, Yahoo co-founder
[March 9, 2006, 15:35]
Demon Internet founder trial postponed
News The crown court trial of Redbus and Demon Internet founder Cliff Stanford, who faces charges of blackmail and email intercepting, has been postponed until the end of the month. Stanford was charged last year under the Regulation of Investigatory...
[January 10, 2005, 11:45]
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]
OpenBSD founder makes funding plea
News Theo de Raadt, the founder and lead developer of OpenBSD, confirmed the loss figures to ZDNet UK and said the project currently has an income of around $100,000 (£60,000), half of which comes from donations, with the other half coming from product...
[March 23, 2006, 10:10]
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]
TechTrader: Pipex founder gambles with Web currency
News Oakington, run by Pipex founder Peter Dawes, has designed a system that will allow users to transfer any type of cybercurrency to be stored in a digital purse accessible from your PC. The technology will be launched within the next two months, and...
[August 22, 2000, 16:36]
Gateway founder Waitt back in as chief executive
News Amid a sharp downturn in its PC business, Gateway said Monday that chief executive Jeffrey Weitzen has stepped down and will be replaced by the company's founder and chairman, Ted Waitt. After watching the company he co-founded stumble and founder...
[January 30, 2001, 8:18]
Napster founder unveils new P2P venture
News With $10m in venture funding and the backing of at least one major record label, Napster founder Shawn Fanning will officially unveil his new peer-to-peer music company on Monday. As previously reported, his new company, dubbed Snocap, is a far cry...
[December 3, 2004, 8:25]
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]
Apache founder joins OpenSolaris board
News Sun has tapped a founder of the successful open source Apache software project to join a new advisory board governing the OpenSolaris operating system project, the software and server maker said Monday.
[April 5, 2005, 10:20]
