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Article | 2/05/2011 Infosys appoints banker as chairman, shortens name
India's second largest outsourcer, Infosys Technologies, has announced a change of leadership, choosing for the first time as its chairman someone who...
Article | 29/04/2011 Clients want access to CEOs at Indian outsourcers: report
Clients of Indian outsourcers consider it critical to have access to, and to build a relationship with, the heads of these companies, according to a s...
Article | 29/04/2011 Three creative ways to add talent to your team
I recently interviewed dozens of CIOs about their hiring concerns and was left amazed. Not by their revelations, but by their level of frustration.
Article | 28/04/2011 Cisco offers early retirement to certain employees
Cisco this week instituted a voluntary early retirement program, its first in two years, in an effort to reduce costs.
Article | 27/04/2011 Nokia hands Symbian OS work and 3,000 employees to Accenture
Nokia will outsource its Symbian software activities to Accenture, transferring 3,000 employees to the company in the process, as it moves its focus t...
Article | 24/04/2011 Norio Ohga, key to Sony's audio legacy, dies at 81
Norio Ohga, one of the handful of men who shaped Sony into the global consumer electronics giant that it is today, died on Saturday morning in Tokyo a...
Article | 22/04/2011 Twitter appoints its first country manager, in Japan
Twitter has appointed its first country manager, another sign of its continued expansion of presence and popularity around the world.
Article | 19/04/2011 The grill: Ingo Elfering
Ingo Elfering talks a lot about opportunities. That's not surprising, considering he has built his career on developing transformative uses for IT. In...
Article | 18/04/2011 Key SaaS software executive leaving SAP
SAP executive John Wookey, who was charged with developing a SaaS (software as a service) strategy for large enterprises, is leaving the vendor after ...
Article | 7/04/2011 Microsoft appoints new marketing chief
Microsoft has appointed a new chief marketing officer, Chris Capossela, to take the place of Mich Mathews, who announced last week that she was steppi...
Article | 6/04/2011 Intel CEO's pay package climbs 7% to $15.7 million
Intel CEO Paul Otellini received a seven per cent pay bump last year, as Intel more than doubled its profits and for the first time topped $40 billion...
Article | 1/04/2011 Acer must look beyond PCs after Lanci's departure
In the wake of Gianfranco Lanci's departure as president and CEO on Thursday, Acer must move aggressively in the smartphone and tablet markets and ste...
Article | 31/03/2011 Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci resigns from company
Acer President and CEO Gianfranco Lanci has resigned from the company, Acer said Thursday, without saying why.
Article | 31/03/2011 Report: Microsoft head marketer steps down
Mich Mathews, head of Microsoft marketing, has stepped down after 18 years of employment, the trade paper Ad Age <a href="http://adage.com/article/dig...
Article | 29/03/2011 Twitter product chief now Dorsey, Williams steps down
The game of musical chairs continues at Twitter, where co-founder and former CEO Evan Williams will step down as product development leader, a role th...