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Article | 15/03/2013 Samsung promotes mobile, consumer chiefs to share leadership
Samsung Electronics has promoted the heads of its mobile and consumer electronics businesses to share leadership along with the existing boss who over...
Article | 13/03/2013 Addressing Android's fragmentation seen as first job for Google's Pichai
Google's decision to bring its Android and Chrome divisions together under Sundar Pichai should result in greater work between the two platforms, but ...
Article | 11/03/2013 CEO at chip maker ST-Ericsson steps down
ST-Ericsson's CEO Didier Lamouche has decided to resign from his post as owner Ericsson looks for a way to ensure its future.
Article | 9/03/2013 Sony Chairman, ex-CEO Howard Stringer to quit
Sony Chairman and former CEO Howard Stringer, who has been at the company since 1997, will be leaving the company in June.
Article | 7/03/2013 General Motors to hire 1,000 in Arizona as it moves IT jobs in-house
General Motors is hiring 1,000 IT staff for a center in a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona as part of its strategy to move more high-value IT work in-house.
Article | 5/03/2013 Tech groups ask for a variety of skilled immigration changes
The U.S. Congress needs to fix skilled immigration programs by encouraging talented immigrants to permanently move to the country, a group of witnesse...
Article | 5/03/2013 Academy Cube aims to tackle IT skills shortage with online learning platform
Software vendors, academic institutions and government agencies united on Tuesday to tackle European youth unemployment and the IT skills shortage wit...
Article | 4/03/2013 EADS CEO seeks IT industry help to speed up aviation innovation
"From the initial research work to its decommissioning, an aircraft's entire service life can amount to up to 90 years," said Tom Enders, CEO of aeros...
Article | 22/02/2013 Alcatel-Lucent appoints former Vodafone exec Michel Combes as CEO
Alcatel-Lucent's board has appointed Michel Combes as the company's new Chief Executive Officer, following Ben Verwaayen's recent resignation.
Article | 21/02/2013 Oracle moves manufacturing jobs from Mexico to the US
Oracle is moving 130 manufacturing jobs from Mexico to Oregon in the U.S., a company spokeswoman said.
Article | 7/02/2013 Alcatel-Lucent CEO to step down amid losses and declining revenue
Alcatel-Lucent reported a fourth-quarter net loss of €1.37 billion (US$1.81 billion), and at the same time announced it is hunting for a new CEO.
Article | 28/01/2013 Samsung investigates worker's death following chemical leak at chip plant
A chemical leak at a Samsung Electronics plant in South Korea has resulted in the death of a contract worker, while four others have been discharged f...
Article | 24/01/2013 Key Linux contributor Alan Cox steps down
Alan Cox, one of the chief contributors to the Linux kernel, has taken a step down from his volunteer duties, citing the need to attend to family matt...
Article | 17/01/2013 Nokia outsources IT functions, more than 1000 employees affected
Nokia is planning to transfer up to 820 employees to HCL Technologies and Tata Consultancy Services and lay off up to 300 people as the company reorga...
Article | 16/01/2013 Longtime VMware CTO Steve Herrod steps down
Longtime VMware Chief Technology Officer Steve Herrod has stepped down from his post, leaving the company during a challenging time.