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IBM Names Palmisano As New Chief Executive
News Sam Palmisano will become IBM's chief executive 1 March, succeeding Lou Gerstner, the company said on Tuesday. Although he will step down as chief executive, Gerstner will remain chairman through 2002.
[January 30, 2002, 8:59]
Microsoft Names New Entertainment Marketing Chief
News Microsoft on Tuesday named Jeff Bell as global marketing chief for its Interactive Entertainment Business group, giving the software maker more firepower to promote its Xbox and Games for Windows products.
[June 7, 2006, 11:30]
New Chief Exec Makes First Red Hat Conference Keynote Speech
Blog Newly appointed Red Hat chief executive Jim Whitehurst claims that his employer's future lies in becoming an open source advisor to end-user companies to allow them to share internally developed software with the rest of industry.
[June 18, 2008, 14:32]
New AOL Chief Faces Tough Challenges
News AOL Time Warner named former USA Interactive executive Jonathan Miller as the chief executive of its America Online division Tuesday. The move, which was expected, ends a search for a permanent chief executive for the AOL Time Warner unit.
[August 7, 2002, 8:17]
SuSE Linux Names New Chief Exec
News Gerhard Burtscher, a longtime computer executive, will take over as chief executive of German Linux seller SuSE on Saturday as part of a reorganisation expected to bring profitability in 2002. Nussbickel had replaced longtime chief executive Roland...
[November 29, 2001, 11:55]
Amazon Appoints New Finance Executive
News Tom's considerable talent and experience will help Amazon.com continue to drive down costs so that we can even further lower prices for customers," chief executive Jeff Bezos said in a release. Szkutak most recently served as the top financial...
[August 30, 2002, 14:59]
EBay Announces New Skype Chief
News At the helm of telephony company Skype will be current Shopping.com president and former Evite co-founder and chief executive Josh Silverman. This continues an extensive management shake-up at the online commerce giant, which saw the departure of...
[February 26, 2008, 10:21]
IBM's Future Lies In Grids, Says New Chief Exec
News Making his first major public appearance since being appointed IBM's chief executive-to-be, Palmisano outlined his vision for the future of technology at the company's PartnerWorld 2002 conference in San Francisco.
[February 21, 2002, 11:30]
IBM Names New Unix Server Chief
News Rahmani, who was hand-picked to work by chief executive Lou Gerstner's side in 1996, takes over the division as Sun and HP are being punished by a declining economy and as IBM has a fresh new Unix server product line.
[October 24, 2001, 15:45]
Microsoft Appoints New Windows Chief
News Sievert had been AT&T Wireless' executive vice-president and chief marketing officer since 2002. Prior to that he was executive vice-president and chief global marketing and sales officer at E*Trade Financial and also had posts at IBM and Procter...
[March 1, 2005, 13:45]
Red Hat's New Chief: A Pragmatic Believer?
Articles Red Hat's newly appointed chief executive, Jim Whitehurst, has two masters to serve: Wall Street, and the open-source community. ZDNet.co.uk caught up with Whitehurst, who took over from former Red Hat chief executive Matthew Szulik at the start of...
[June 20, 2008, 17:56]
Baptism Of Fire For New WorldCom Chief
News Today, as the hastily selected new chief executive of WorldCom, Sidgmore is a chastened voice, groping for answers that can help revive the struggling giant. In their call with analysts, the new executive team said it would spend the next 30 to 60...
[May 1, 2002, 9:11]
Napster Appoints New CEO
News Napster on Tuesday named Konrad Hilbers, a Bertelsmann executive, as its new chief executive, replacing Hank Barry. Hilbers, who will lead the embattled music-swapping company into its new incarnation as a membership-based service later this summer...
[July 24, 2001, 15:08]
Wall Street Waits For Word On Yahoo!
News reports second-quarter earnings, with its new chief executive, Terry Semel, front and centre. When appointed chief executive in April, Semel said he planned to introduce more paid services throughout Yahoo!
[July 11, 2001, 14:43]
Linux Lab Revamps Supercomputer Plans
News The Open Source Development Lab, a programming centre devoted to bringing high-end features to Linux, announced a new chief executive and an expanded partnership plan on Monday. Under the new chief executive, Stuart F.
[April 22, 2003, 10:24]
New Boss Has Six Months To Make Novell Work
News Ron Hovsepian, the new chief executive at Novell, will have to improve the company's sales in the next six months or face the same fate as predecessor Jack Messman, according to analysts. Novell is struggling to convert its investment in Suse Linux...
[June 23, 2006, 16:55]
Embattled Qwest Chief Executive Resigns
News During a board meeting late Sunday, Qwest directors reportedly named Richard Notebaert as the company's new chief executive. Qwest Communications' chief executive Joseph Nacchio has resigned at the request of the board, according to published reports.
[June 17, 2002, 9:08]
Napster To Name New Chief
News Napster is expected to name a new chief executive as early as Tuesday, according to sources close to the company, bringing current chief executive Hank Barry's tumultuous term to a close. The search for a new chief executive has been ongoing...
[July 24, 2001, 9:07]
New Yahoo! Chief Exec Appointed From Warner
News on Tuesday appointed former Warner Brothers executive Terry Semel as its new chairman and chief executive officer, just a little over a month after Tim Koogle decided to step down from the top spot. The company has since been on a search for a new...
[April 17, 2001, 14:39]
Sun: Same Song, Second Verse?
News When Sun Microsystems on Monday named Jonathan Schwartz its first new chief executive in 22 years, he and predecessor Scott McNealy predicted more of the same for the company. And the new chief executive already has shaped the high ranks of the...
[April 26, 2006, 11:20]
