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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]
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]
Dell founder thinks different about Apple
News The founder and chairman of the No.computer maker told Fortune magazine that he would be interested in becoming a 'switcher' himself if the opportunity ever came up. Michael Dell is thinking different about the Mac OS.
[June 17, 2005, 9:45]
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]
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]
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]
Gentoo Linux founder quits Microsoft
News Daniel Robbins, the founder and former chief architect of the Gentoo Linux project, has quit his job at Microsoft after only eight months, the software giant confirmed on Monday. Last May, Robbins made the unusual switch from being a well-known...
[February 14, 2006, 9:20]
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]
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]
Lotus founder preps open source Outlook alternative
News Mitch Kapor, co-founder of Lotus Development and a pioneer of personal computer software, thinks so. Can a fledgling nonprofit organisation with half a dozen employees challenge the largest software company in the world?
[October 23, 2002, 8:02]
Suse founder returns to Novell
News The co-founder of Suse has returned to the company just one year after he resigned. Hubert Mantel rejoined Novell this month, where he is heading up the kernel quality assurance team. Novell acquired Suse in 2003.
[December 20, 2006, 15:29]
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]
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]
Flickr founder knocks Yahoo's culture
News During a visit to Australia this week, Flickr founder and former Yahoo staffer Stewart Butterfield criticised the search giant for its lack of an innovative culture compared to rival Google. The executive and his wife, co-Flickr founder Caterina...
[July 29, 2008, 9:24]
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]
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]
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]
Demon founder pleads guilty to email charges
News Clifford Stanford, the founder of Demon Internet and Redbus, pleaded guilty on Thursday morning to unlawful email interception. Codefendant George Liddell, a former employee of Redbus, also pleaded guilty to the same charge.
[September 15, 2005, 12:50]
Sophos founder: Mac viruses are spreading
News The co-founder of antivirus firm Sophos said that the Apple Mac is not a virus-free platform. He also believes that Windows can be as secure as Linux — if it is configured correctly. In an interview with ZDNet Australia on Thursday, Dr Jan Hruska...
[June 11, 2007, 9:25]
Net founder: traffic growth spells revival
News Internet traffic quadrupled during the past year, and demand from corporations is so strong that carriers will be forced to start spending significant money on upgrades early next year, sparking a turnaround in the industry, a founder of the...
[August 19, 2001, 8:30]
