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One might say that it was only a matter of time before something like this happened, even though it has definitely been a while since the motive behind Acer's latest action arose.
Basically, Acer has sued former chief executive officer Gianfranco Lanci over alleged breaching of a non-compete clause.
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7 February 2012
13:01 GMT |
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It was just days ago that Micron's Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Steve Appleton, was reported dead after suffering a plane crash.The company has now decided who the new chief executive is going to be, namely D. Mark Durcan, who has served as Chief Operating Officer of Micron since 2007.He will also serve on Mic... |
6 February 2012
11:18 GMT |
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HP's CEO Meg Whitman agreed to an interview recently, where she answered some general and some not so general questions, one of which dealt with the company's position in regards to software.
The interview conducted by CRN already exposed some information about what HP would like to do next, even if some ... |
4 February 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Micron definitely has no reasons to rejoice today, and neither does the semiconductor industry at large: Steve Appleton, Micron's chief executive officer, has passed away.
News of someone's death is disheartening by default, but Steve Appleton is going to leave many people mourning, not just his wife and ... |
4 February 2012
04:12 GMT |
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Apple’s new CEO certainly has what it takes to make profits soar, but one former employee believes he has enough charisma to be the next president of the United States.Speaking to Adam Lashinsky at LinkedIn, the former Apple employee confirmed an interesting account from the author’s book, Inside Apple, r... |
29 January 2012
16:24 GMT |
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RIM has got a new President and Chief Executive Officer, in the person of Thorsten Heins. Both Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie stepped down from their co-CEO positions, but they did not leave the company.
Research In Motion’s founders and former co-CEOs will be there to continue to offer guidance. Lazaridis... |
23 January 2012
10:24 GMT |
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Tim Cook was an obvious choice for the role of Chief Executive Officer with Steve Jobs stepping down from his leading position last year, weeks before his death. But who says Cook was Apple’s only choice to fill that CEO chair?
No one. In fact, according to the author of an upcoming book called Inside Apple, A... |
17 January 2012
17:01 GMT |
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Christian Fredrikson started taking his role seriously on January 16, even though he was officially named president and CEO of F-Secure Corporation since November 2011.
Aged 47, Fredrikson is a Finnish citizen, married and the father of two children. He holds a master’s degree in engineering from Åbo Aka... |
17 January 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Now that Yahoo finally got a new CEO, it seems that the board is up for review. Rumors say that Yahoo is looking for new board members to replace at least several of the current ones.
Given that the Yahoo board is generally regarded as one of the most inefficient, to put it mildly, in the industry, that can only b... |
7 January 2012
07:11 GMT |
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It's official, Yahoo has announced that it has ended its search for a new CEO. It's been searching for one since September, when it ousted its former CEO Carol Bartz, even as the company has been involved in talks of a sale of the entire company or just its Asian assets.
Yahoo announced that, now former, P... |
4 January 2012
09:53 GMT |
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Yahoo has had a confusing past few months. Ever since it got rid of its CEO in September, the company's future has been unclear, to say the least. On the one hand, it has been looking for a replacement. On the other, it was looking for buyers as well, either for the whole company or just for its valuable Asian a... |
4 January 2012
08:10 GMT |
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Microsoft might have its founder and former CEO Bill Gates back to working for the company, so as to give it a boost that it so much needs; at least this is what Fortune says. No confirmation on such plans emerged, but it seems that sources close to Gates confirmed that he might be considering returning to the com... |
9 December 2011
09:03 GMT |
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Every other year the people at ChiefExecutive.net profile companies that are the best and the worst at what they do, and they’re careful to pick different names every time to provide “a fresh set of management insights.” One of the top scoring CEOs listed in this year's rankings is the late Ste... |
5 December 2011
13:01 GMT |
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Red Hat has just announced that one of its most prominent Executive Vice President of Sales, Services & Field Marketing, Alex Pinchev, will be moving to another company, from January 16th, 2012.Alex Pinchev worked at Red Hat since 2003, but now apparently has found another job, chief executive officer (CE... |
30 November 2011
05:50 GMT |
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RealNetworks has been searching for a new chief executive for over half a year and, at long last, the new leader has been decided upon. After RealNetworks spent about as much time as AMD did on CEO searching, it is Thomas Nielsen that will pick up the mantle of chief executive officer (CEO) from Mike Lunsford. The... |
2 November 2011
11:32 GMT |
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This month is definitely one when many executive changes happen on the IT market, as IBM adds its list to that of companies which got, or will get, a new CEO or other executive.
IBM revealed that it decided who will lead its operations starting on January 1, 2012, when she becomes a board member as well.
It is V... |
26 October 2011
14:01 GMT |
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With all the things that HP has been going through, things are shaky at best, but it looks like the uncertainties are only deepening now that yet another executive is leaving. In a move similar and, at the same time, unlike the one that led to the change of CEO, HP is going through another executive roster change. ... |
21 October 2011
11:04 GMT |
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It appears that AMD is not done with executive changes and such, as a new Chief Technology officer was chosen, namely Mark Papermaster, formerly of Cisco and, before that, senior VP at Apple. AMD's new CEO Rory P. Read already made a few management changes, like the departure of Rick Bergman. Now, someone ne... |
19 October 2011
17:51 GMT |
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HP may or may not have foreseen the possibility of things going so badly after saying it wanted out of the PC market, but the decision to spin off the PC business turned into a veritable PR disaster that, per recent reports, has taken its toll on employees and directors alike.
HP's announcement that it would... |
30 September 2011
09:01 GMT |
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Not long ago, it was revealed that AMD's Products Group General Manager had left the company, but he is by no means leaving the IT industry, as he has now become president and CEO of Synaptics.Rick Bergman leaving his position as AMD products group general manager was met with the expected amount of mixed feeli... |
29 September 2011
10:13 GMT |
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Meg Whitmans's choice to not revert Apotheker's plan to get HP out of the PC market was, predictably, not warmly received by the majority of its business partners.
When Meg Whitman was suddenly put in Leo Apotheker's place, it was generally hoped that the choice to back out of the PC market would b... |
29 September 2011
03:29 GMT |
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With HP's decision to oust Leo Apotheker and put Meg Whitman in his place, there is little doubt that some things will be changing, perhaps ever reverted, though nothing official is known yet.
HP made not just one, but multiple questionable business decisions over the past couple of months, not the least of ... |
23 September 2011
05:27 GMT |
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All those who believed HP's recent business decisions weren't going to come across well have gotten their confirmation in how HP sacked its CEO and chose someone in his stead, not even bothering with an interim. Meg Whitman, former eBay chief executive officer (CEO) and one time candidate for the position... |
23 September 2011
02:54 GMT |
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In a recent press release, Lenovo announced that it had welcomed former Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci into its fold, offering him the position of consultant.
Well-known figures from top IT players seldom disappear from the field altogether when their collaboration with this or that company is terminated.
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17 September 2011
06:23 GMT |
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The latest Yahoo drama is still unfolding. After unceremoniously firing CEO Carol Bartz, the company is desperately looking for a direction and a strategy.What it's not looking for is a new CEO, apparently, since the company wants to determine what is the best path to go forward and will only then choose a CEO t... |
12 September 2011
05:30 GMT |
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Reddit has announced that it's becoming an independent company, spinning off from Conde Nast, but remaining under the same ownership. Reddit will become Reddit Inc., an independent company which will make its own decisions, under the guidance of a board of directors that's been set up.
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7 September 2011
07:47 GMT |
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Perhaps an inevitable move, Carol Bartz is out as Yahoo CEO after almost three years of trying, and failing, to turn around the fortunes of the troubled company. Stagnant revenue and profits have been plaguing Yahoo for the past few years and the string of restructuring and layoffs didn't manage to change things... |
7 September 2011
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AMD got a new Chief Executive Officer recently, and the man is not allowing any delays in starting to implement his views of how AMD can go forward, even opting for the so-called predator's mindset. Advanced Micro Devices may have gone for about seven months without an actual leader, but this changed when Rory... |
31 August 2011
07:27 GMT |
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HP's decision to back out of the PC market shocked mostly everyone involved in the IT industry, and this includes former company director Tom Perkins, who calls the maneuver a corporate suicide. HP has been fairly active on the enterprise front as of late, but there is no question that the main thing getting i... |
30 August 2011
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It was over a month ago that AMD completed its sixth month without a real CEO, but it looks like the company finally decided on its new head, Mr. Rory P. Read, who served Lenovo until recently.Some end-users might remember that former AMD Chief Executive Officer Dirk Meyer got let go fairly suddenly a rather long ti... |
25 August 2011
10:12 GMT |
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The world renowned maker of computer and gaming peripherals, Logitech has recently announced that Gerald P. Quindlen has stepped down as the company's president and chief executive officer and resigned from the Board of Directors.
Until a suitable replacement is found, company Chairman Guerrino De Luca has ta... |
2 August 2011
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It appears that an unfortunate scenario has come to pass, namely that Advanced Micro Devices has gone a bit too long without finding a Chief Executive Officer to replace Dirk Meyer.Acer may have managed to find a new chief executive officer, or at least name an official to the position, but the same cannot be said a... |
4 July 2011
08:59 GMT |
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The IT industry can be an unforgiving place and people can lose their positions instantly, but sometimes they recover, as seems to have happened to two certain men who used to be part of AMD's staff.
The consumer base may mostly pay attention to the hardware and software developments on the IT market, but so... |
29 June 2011
02:41 GMT |
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Even months after Dirk Meyer's ousting, Advanced Micro Devices still does not have an actual chief executive officer, so the outfit is now sending offers to executives from other companies.
It has already been some time since AMD's former CEO Dirk Meyer was suddenly sacked, because of disagreements with... |
16 June 2011
02:28 GMT |
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It looks like the slowdown of PC sales has caught up to HP the world's largest supplier of computers, whose quarterly results during the winter periods proved so underwhelming that the outfit decided on some drastic changes to its team of executive officers.It will be a while before the IT market forgets about ... |
14 June 2011
05:17 GMT |
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Bit.ly, the prominent URL-shrinking site, has announced that it's gotten a new CEO, Peter Stern, a known web entrepreneur. The service has gotten its first CEO, in fact, since there was no one at the company filling in the position full time until now. Started as a project of Betaworks, Bit.ly has evolved to the... |
16 May 2011
11:30 GMT |
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Acer's former CEO was ousted quite suddenly earlier this year, and with him having stepped up to talk about the circumstances, the company was fairly quick to respond, at least according to a report.Much like Advanced Micro Devices, Acer found itself without a Chief Executive Officer earlier this year, because ... |
11 May 2011
05:39 GMT |
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It looks like the most recent piece of news on Acer's part is 50% good and 50% bad, or so some might say, considering that the company seems to have chosen a direction but will have its work cut out for it, what with the sharp drop in PC sales.Acer has been without a so-called permanent CEO (Chief Executive Off... |
19 April 2011
09:52 GMT |
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Since Acer has been without a permanent CEO for a while now, one might say it was high time it decided on what to do next, and it looks like a decision, of sorts, has been taken regarding its business direction.Some end-users may have stumbled upon one of our recent articles where it is implied that Apple is, indire... |
8 April 2011
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Today is the first day of a new era at Google. As we reported January 20th, long time Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, will be replaced by Larry Page, one of the two original founders.After 10 years as the main man at Google, Eric Schmidt has handed over his CEO duties to the person from which he took them from in 2001.Larr... |
4 April 2011
08:54 GMT |
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End-users may have noticed that company officials seem to be resigning or being let go left and right, but not everyone might have seen a certain underlying pattern to it all and how it came to be.The apple has long been hailed as the representation of the forbidden fruit, since it symbolizes temptation that leads t... |
1 April 2011
07:40 GMT |
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It appears that the departure of a certain Chief Executive Officer will have more far-reaching consequences than some may have expected, to the point where even rival companies may have to be especially careful of what they do next.As end-users might have noticed, the IT market seems to have come down with a serious... |
1 April 2011
06:05 GMT |
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Hearing that AMD, even after so much time, still doesn't have a permanent head figure probably has consumers wondering, but it looks like Acer might just go through a similarly tumultuous period now that its own CEO resigned.Consumers keeping track of happenings on the IT industry will most likely have learned ... |
31 March 2011
05:59 GMT |
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It would appear that Advanced Micro Devices, even after months of searching for a new chief executive officer, still has not succeeded in finding a suitable replacement for Dirk Meyer. Not having a leader is definitely not a good thing for any organization, and while an Interim can keep things in check for a short wh... |
29 March 2011
07:57 GMT |
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Back at MWC 2011, we've had the chance of attending a couple of very interesting conferences held by Mr. Anand Chandrasekher, senior vice president and general manager of Ultra Mobility Group (UMG), and, to be perfectly honest, we were quite impressed by his speeches and deep involvement with the technology he w... |
22 March 2011
02:32 GMT |
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Without an actual, full-fledge CEO, no company can really set up, and by extension follow, any sort of long-term plan, so it stands to reason that AMD should hurry up and choose a new chief, something that, apparently, might finally happen soon.AMD's previous Chief Executive Officer ended up leaving office abou... |
15 March 2011
10:13 GMT |
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Clearwire, the first wireless carrier in the United States to launch a 4G network in the country, has just announced that it appointed a new CEO, and that some other executive changes also took place within the company. The company got John Stanton, chairman of Clearwire’s board of directors and former CEO of ... |
11 March 2011
12:51 GMT |
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Amid pressure from advisory firms to have Apple disclose its existing CEO succession plan, a recent survey has found that a small percent of companies have one.
According to a December survey of 1,318 executives by Korn/Ferry International, a mere 35% of companies have a CEO succession plan, the San Francisco Chro... |
7 February 2011
09:22 GMT |
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The outing of Dirk Meyer from AMD's CEO position was, without a doubt, one of the most shocking moves of early 2011, leaving the whole world wondering just who'll have the skills to take the world's second most important chip manufacturer to a whole new level, as the company's board demands.
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21 January 2011
08:35 GMT |
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Google has made quite the announcement along with its Q4 financial results, Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO for the past decade, will be stepping down from the role and cofounder Larry Page will take over. This, apparently, is part of a restructuring at the very top in which Google's ruling 'triumvirate... |
20 January 2011
16:29 GMT |
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