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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.
Article | 16/01/2013 AMD granted restraining order against former employees in trade secrets lawsuit
Advanced Micro Devices has been granted by a court in Massachusetts a temporary restraining order against four former employees, three of whom are all...
Article | 15/01/2013 Alibaba CEO Jack Ma is stepping down but will remain as chairman
Alibaba Group's Jack Ma will step down from his position as CEO of the Chinese e-commerce giant in May, to help usher in its next generation of leader...
Article | 14/01/2013 Dice: US tech unemployment stands at 3.3 percent
The unemployment rate among U.S. IT workers stood at 3.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012, significantly lower than the overall unemployment rate...
Article | 14/01/2013 HP launches converged Cloud business unit
Banking on the trend toward Cloud computing, Hewlett-Packard has created a stand-alone organization to oversee the company's hosted computing services...
Article | 28/12/2012 Apple gives Tim Cook 51 percent salary rise, but his total compensation drops 99 percent
Apple CEO Tim Cook received compensation totalling US$4.17 million in 2012, down 98.9 percent on last year -- although his 2011 compensation of $378 m...
Article | 24/12/2012 Craig Mundie takes new role at Microsoft, will retire in 2014
Craig Mundie has left his role as Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer to become senior adviser to the CEO, as he winds down before retirem...
Article | 18/12/2012 Oracle Q2 profits rise 18 percent, but hardware sales continue to slide
Oracle on Tuesday reported that net income jumped 18 percent to US$2.6 billion while revenue rose 3 percent to $9.1 billion for the second quarter, bu...
Article | 15/12/2012 Ray Kurzweil joining Google
Well-known American inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil is joining Google.
Article | 3/12/2012 Autonomy founder Lynch unveils website, continuing public war with HP
Autonomy founder Mike Lynch has created a new website where he will apparently keep a running stockpile of his responses to Hewlett-Packard's allegati...
Article | 19/11/2012 Candidates emerge to succeed Intel CEO Otellini
Three top executives promoted Monday at Intel are among the leading candidates under consideration to replace Paul Otellini as the company's CEO, acco...
Article | 16/11/2012 US accuses eBay of illegal no-hiring deal with Intuit
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit accusing eBay of entering into a "handshake" agreement to not recruit or hire employees of software...
Article | 13/11/2012 Windows head Steven Sinofsky leaves Microsoft
Steven Sinofsky, the executive in charge of Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system and the driving force behind its new OS, is leaving the company, Mi...
Article | 8/11/2012 Sony executive in charge of online, networking products to step down
Sony said Thursday that the executive in charge of its online products, and linking them up to its broad hardware holdings, will leave the company at ...
Article | 30/10/2012 Sybase chief John Chen leaving SAP
Sybase CEO John Chen is leaving SAP, roughly two-and-a-half years after SAP acquired the company for its database and mobility technologies, SAP annou...