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Steve Jobs Crowned 'CEO of the Decade'

Not surprisingly, Fortune Magazine has crowned Steve Jobs “CEO of the Decade.” The magazine posted a video coverage of the CEO’s achievements, as well as a story that truly highlights the importance for Apple (and not only) of having a guy like Jobs around for guidance. The magazine highlights a se...

5 November 2009
10:48 GMT

Steve Jobs Most Admired Entrepreneur Among Teens

Teenagers have chosen Apple Co-founder and CEO Steven P. Jobs as the most admired entrepreneur in a survey released on Tuesday by Junior Achievement, an organization that educates students in regards to employment. Of the 1,000 teens surveyed, 35 percent voted for Jobs, beating celebs including Oprah Winfrey (25 perc...

14 October 2009
09:20 GMT

AmazingMail (Postino Enabler) Appoints New CEO

The Board of Directors of AmazingMail.com Inc. has announced that Robert Blackman has been appointed CEO, succeeding Chris Lynde. According to the official report announcing Blackman’s new role within the company, last month, AmazingMail was ranked in the Inc. 5,000 list of the nation's fastest growing com...

24 September 2009
09:49 GMT

Camera Not a Priority for iPod touch, Says Jobs

Although some believe Apple did intend to equip the new iPod touch with a camera, Apple’s CEO claims otherwise. Interviewed by The NY Times’ personal technology columnist (David Pogue), Jobs has revealed that Apple has studied the market carefully and has seen that people are into the gaming capabilities ...

15 September 2009
06:15 GMT

Nokia Siemens Networks Welcomes New CEO

Worldwide leading infrastructure provider Nokia Siemens Networks announced today that its Board of Directors appointed Rajeev Suri as the company's Chief Executive Officer, effective October 1, 2009. The company also announced that Suri would be supported until November 1 by the current CEO, Simon Beresford-Wyli...

1 September 2009
09:53 GMT

Steve Jobs Focused on Tablet Device

An unnamed Apple employee has reportedly told the press that Steve Jobs’ return to Apple’s Cupertino campus HQ has not been entirely welcomed by staffers. Moreover, the same source revealed, Apple’s now healthy CEO is heavily focused on what is believed to be the rumored Apple tablet. Although shar...

25 August 2009
10:30 GMT

Apple Tries to Block Newspaper Story on Steve Jobs

Apple reportedly tried to block a lengthy, 4,000-word piece in yesterday's Sunday Times newspaper. In the story (eventually published), Apple and its iconic CEO are described as imperfect entities. Bryan Appleyard, respected journalist and author, reveals that Apple tried not once, but twice to halt the story, ...

17 August 2009
05:38 GMT

AVG Starts a Global CEO Search

AVG Technologies, currently a leader in providing Internet security solutions and having more than 80 million users throughout 167 countries, announced on Friday the launch of a global search for finding an appropriate CEO that would help the company grow even further. Being presently privately held, the company'...

18 July 2009
02:26 GMT

Steve Jobs Spotted at Coldplay Concert

A post on behalf of one of Coldplay's roadies reveals that Steve Jobs attended the band's concert at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California on Monday night. In what is the first-reported public appearance of Apple's CEO since his return from a six-month-long medical leave, Jobs allegedly w...

16 July 2009
10:41 GMT

It’s Official: Steve Jobs Is Back to Work

Reports have confirmed that Steve Jobs is back as Apple CEO, following a six-month medical leave. For the time being, Jobs will be dropping by the office a few days a week, but will continue to work from his home, an Apple spokesperson has confirmed for Bloomberg. “Steve is back to work,” Steve Dowling, a...

30 June 2009
06:56 GMT

Steve Jobs Back as Apple CEO

A report over at the Los Angeles Times looks at Steve Jobs’ return as Apple CEO, while citing company watchers on the future of Apple Inc., with or without its iconic CEO. Also mentioned in the report, Apple’s stock is beginning to recover from last year’s decline in price, though very slowly, due t...

29 June 2009
03:13 GMT

Next-Gen iPhone Confirmed, Steve Jobs Ready for CEO Again

According to people familiar with Apple, talks of Steve Jobs returning to the 1 Infinite Loop campus were true. Moreover, the Wall Street Journal cites these people as saying they’ve seen the much hyped next-generation iPhone, and the device is reportedly similar in appearance to the current version, but packs ...

5 June 2009
09:12 GMT

Steve Jobs Returns from Medical Leave, Insiders Say

Italian-language website setteB.IT claims to have gained knowledge of an “in shape” Steve Jobs being spotted on 27 May at Apple's Cupertino campus. More than one source has allegedly confirmed to the site that Apple's CEO returned to the company to attend a meeting. A rough translation of the p...

29 May 2009
05:35 GMT

Steve Jobs Is 'Healthy, Energetic,' Says Woz

Speaking at the Wall Street Journal’s All Things D conference in Southern California, Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak said Jobs didn’t “seem to be in a health crisis.” Moreover, Woz added, Steve Jobs was “healthy, energetic” and “doesn’t sound like he’s sick,&rdquo...

28 May 2009
10:40 GMT

MySpace CEO to Step Down

Chris DeWolfe, the current chief executive officer of MySpace, will step down from his position in the near future. News Corporation did not indicate just the exact deadline when the CEO seat would become empty, but it did emphasize that the move was the conclusion of a mutual agreement between DeWolfe and News Corpo...

23 April 2009
09:03 GMT

Steve Jobs Still Close with Apple

People familiar with Apple's plans have revealed that Steve Jobs is actively reviewing the development of iPhone OS 3.0, as well as the development of new hardware products, remaining “closely involved in key aspects of running the company,” according to The Wall Street Journal.In the report, people ...

13 April 2009
04:21 GMT

Happy Birthday Mr. Jobs

Today, February 24, 2009, Steven Paul Jobs is 54 years old. Steve Jobs is the co-founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Apple Inc. and the former CEO of Pixar Animation Studios and the world's favorite CEO. Steve Jobs was listed as Fortune Magazine's Most Powerful Businessman of 2007.Steve Jobs, ...

24 February 2009
02:51 GMT

1st Apple Annual Meeting Without Steve Jobs – Health Rumors Resurface

Since he reclaimed leadership at Apple back in 1997, Apple's CEO, Steve Jobs, hasn't missed any of the company's annual meetings. This year, however, Apple will hold its annual meeting without Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs, Bloomberg reports.The meeting to be held on February 25 (a day after Jobs&...

23 February 2009
03:40 GMT

Analyst Asks How Steve Jobs Is Doing (Q1 '09 Q&A)

During Apple's Q&A with the media at its FY 09 First Quarter Results Conference Call, the company's execs weighed in on various topics, including one that concerns its CEO. Interested in Steve Jobs' wellbeing, Barclays Capital analyst Ben Reitzes adopted a straight-forward approach and asked how Jobs w...

22 January 2009
05:39 GMT

Apple to Be Inquired by the SEC over Steve Jobs Health Disclosures

We've just learned that the Securities and Exchange Commission is planning to review Apple's disclosures regarding its CEO's health problems, pressed by investors who need to know where things are headed. U.S. regulators are not kicking off the investigation following a particular lead - the SEC doesn&...

21 January 2009
03:38 GMT

Educators Don't Fear Jobs' Hiatus

Educational technology leaders who have spoken with eSchool News say they didn't react negatively to Steve Jobs' health hiatus. While the scenario of Jobs' not coming back may eventually affect educational institutions using Macs, superintendents believe the end-user will not suffer much. Right before...

20 January 2009
10:55 GMT

Apple Co-Founder on Steve Jobs' Leave

Steve Wozniak, nicknamed Woz in short by the Apple community, was kind enough to do an interview with the folks at NBC on Steve Jobs' health issues and, implicitly, his medical leave announced recently. The Apple co-founder explained to the interviewers that people should just trust Steve Jobs. Apple's CEO ...

20 January 2009
02:52 GMT

Jobs Said to Be Considering Liver Transplant

A Bloomberg piece claims that Apple's Chief Executive Officer, Steve Jobs, is considering a liver transplant due to the side effects of his treatment for pancreatic cancer. Jobs was allegedly reached by telephone, where he vehemently denied to provide further information about his health. According to the repor...

19 January 2009
03:26 GMT

Steve Jobs' Medical Leave May Be for Good, Analysts Suggest

With two health-related announcements out the door from Apple's press room recently, the media could only have become more relentless. Reports are now adding new information to Apple's open statements. “Two people who are familiar with Mr. Jobs’s current medical treatment said he was not suffer...

15 January 2009
04:05 GMT

Steve Jobs Takes Medical Leave

Soon after posting an open letter to the Apple Community, Apple CEO Steve Jobs posted a new announcement this week, this time revealing that his health issues were more complex than originally believed. Last week, Mr. Jobs posted an open letter announcing that his doctors had isolated the cause of him losing weight ...

15 January 2009
02:32 GMT

Carol Bartz - Yahoo Gets New CEO

Back in mid-November 2008, Yahoo debuted the season of CEO harvesting as Jerry Yang announced that he was stepping down from the position of head of the company. On January 13, 2009, the Sunnyvale Internet giant announced that Yang's position would be taken by technology veteran Carol Bartz. With Yang at the hel...

14 January 2009
04:25 GMT

Steve Jobs to Remain Apple CEO 'During' Treatment

Earlier this week, the world's most iconic CEO posted an open letter to all those connected to Apple, in one way or another. Steve Jobs indirectly admitted that the main reason for not delivering the Macworld 2009 keynote presentation himself was “a hormone imbalance” that has been “robbing&rdq...

6 January 2009
10:11 GMT

Open Letter from Steve Jobs

In what is one of the most surprising moves from Apple's CEO this year, Steve Jobs has posted an open letter to the Apple Community, admitting health issues had to do with his not attending the Macworld Expo this year. As Apple fans may recall, the company has stated on numerous occasions that Steve Jobs was fi...

5 January 2009
13:21 GMT

Apple Once Again Faced with CEO Succession Controversy

This week, Apple officially announced its last stop at the Macworld expo, arising concern among company watchers. Furthermore, Apple revealed that its iconic CEO would not be delivering the much-anticipated keynote. Instead, the company's SVP of Worldwide Product Marketing, Phil Schiller, will be making the pres...

18 December 2008
11:19 GMT

Jerry Yang Is Out, Yahoo Debuts CEO Harvesting

On November 17, Yahoo announced that co-founder Jerry Yang would be stepping down from the position of Chief Executive Officer. However, the Sunnyvale-based Internet giant is not CEO-less. Yang will hold on to the position until his successor will be identified. According to Yahoo, the Board of Directors has already ...

18 November 2008
05:59 GMT

Microsoft China Gets New Corporate VP, Chairman and CEO

Almost a year after Timothy Chen, the head of Microsoft China, resigned, the software giant announced that it found a new Corporate Vice President, Chairman and CEO. Simon Leung will lead the Microsoft Greater China Region (GCR), and will report directly to Jean-Philippe Courtois, senior vice president, Microsoft, an...

13 November 2008
07:34 GMT

Steve Jobs' Heart Attack Denied by Apple

A citizen report published on CNN's iReport this Friday and saying Steve Jobs had had a heart attack has been vehemently denied by Apple. Soon after the malicious report was published, Apple's stock reached its lowest point in 17 months ($94.65).Reuters could soon confirm that Apple's chief executive w...

5 October 2008
09:35 GMT

AMD to Divide Its Business

Not so long ago, Hector Ruiz stepped down as CEO of Advanced Micro, being replaced by the company's chief operating officer, Dirk Meyer. Rumors of Hector Ruiz stepping down as AMD's chief executive officer have surfaced since May this year, but they were confirmed only a few months ago. Despite the fact tha...

12 August 2008
13:13 GMT

Hector Ruiz Replaced by Dirk Meyer as AMD's CEO

As we informed you on Monday, Advanced Micro has been showered by the media with quite a few favorable pieces, thanks to its latest Radeon graphics cards. Nevertheless, this fails to change the fact that, overall, the company isn't doing all that well, a thing that is more than obvious in the Q2 figures register...

18 July 2008
05:34 GMT

Watchers Claim Apple Needs a CEO Succession Plan

Recent reports claim Apple's Jonathan Ive (designer of the iMac) has purchased a mansion in the UK, while endless rumors about Steve Jobs' health don't do the company's stock much good either. 9to5mac is reporting that "company-watchers" are now asking if Apple can produce a new Steve Jobs, should...

20 June 2008
05:53 GMT

Apple Executive Board Makes Room for Two More

Sources are reporting that Apple has called in "two new faces to its executive team." One of those faces is Scott Forstall, the guy who offered a tour of the iPhone SDK at Apple's March 6 event in Cupertino. The other figure is Bob Mansfield. They are now Senior Vice Presidents of iPhone software and Mac hardwar...

7 June 2008
11:49 GMT

Sued? Antivirus Update Required!

A new and pretty dangerous phishing attack was launched a few days ago, targeting the CEOs of online companies. According to Cyveillance's official blog, the CEO of the company, Panos Anastassiadis, received a suspicious email, apparently a subpoena, which informed him that he had been sued, the message includin...

15 April 2008
05:18 GMT

Intel's Otellini, Paid Double in 2007

Chip manufacturer Intel awarded its CEO a huge cash bonus during last year, that almost doubled its compensations. The report is based on his filling with the Securities and Exchange Commission. According to the compensation filling, Paul Otellini got $12.1, which accounts for some $6.2 million added to its regular $...

4 April 2008
17:21 GMT

Atari Gets New CEO

Atari Inc., the American company owned partly by Infogrames, has been thrust in the spotlight by recent events. After it has recently failed to reach some of the conditions related to its NASDAQ listing, it has been threatened with delisting from the stock exchange. It seems that part of the company's response i...

1 April 2008
14:16 GMT

10Tacle CEO Quits

Things could have been simple: boss resigns, the company is really sorry, new guy comes in. But it is a bit more complicated and we love that, especially because there is no beef or backstabbing or something similar. Still, the beginning of the story is the same: Aroon Tan, Chief Executive Officer of 10Tacle Asia has...

27 March 2008
22:06 GMT

'Barron's 30': Steve Jobs Is the Most Valuable CEO

Get ready to love / hate Apple's CEO, Steve Jobs, even more as the guy has made Barron's annual list of the 30 best corporate heads worldwide, according to MacsimumNews. Jobs is a "consummate innovator" and is "arguably is the world's most valuable CEO," as the magazine reckons, in assembling its fourt...

24 March 2008
11:20 GMT

Steve Ballmer Goes Monkey Boy: Web Developers! Web Developers! Web Developers!

If you think that you have already seen the last of the on-stage public shenanigans of Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer, then you are sadly mistaken. And while I am sure that you are all but too familiar with the "developers, developers, developers" chant and dance, I have included the video at the bot...

7 March 2008
10:35 GMT

Apple's CEO Doesn't Like Adobe's Flash

The latest CNN reports (via techcrunch.com) say that liar-liar-pants-on-fire Apple CEO Steve Jobs isn't very happy with Adobe's flash tech, as far as his iPhone is concerned. And for good reason too, as it slows it down dramatically. This would imply that Adobe came up with a "middle" solution, which Adobe,...

6 March 2008
06:02 GMT

Jobs Lied About His Diagnosis

It has recently been revealed that a June 2005 commencement address at Stanford University saw Apple's CEO telling students that "About a year ago," he was "diagnosed with cancer." The moving story would have made the history books, hadn't it been a big fat lie, as Jobs first found out about his pancreatic ...

5 March 2008
04:41 GMT

Atari Is Moving On-line

The new CEO of

4 March 2008
03:59 GMT

Profit-lite Skype Appointed eBay Head

Skype is the most popular Voice over IP client and service in the world. Earlier this month, it hit the 100 billion minutes spent talking margin and it is still increasing its user database. The 2.6 billion dollars spent by eBay, when it first acquired Skype, seem to have been well spent when looking at the huge numb...

26 February 2008
08:58 GMT

Need a Bug Fix? Ask Steve Jobs

Say you have problems with your Mac. What do you do? Hit Apple Discussions of course, or any other Mac-dedicated forum, blog etc. But say you're in a higher position than mom's-basement-couch-potato. I don't know... the host of a TV show. Do you ask Steve Jobs himself for a solution to your Mac problem...

14 February 2008
08:51 GMT

Year Started Off on the Wrong Foot for eBay

There are only three CEOs right now in Silicon Valley that have very high profiles because of the pioneering work that they have done with commercializing the Internet industry: Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, Yahoo! Inc.'s Jerry Yang and, last but not least, eBay's Meg Whitman. Their ranks will unfortunately...

22 January 2008
17:06 GMT

Google Exec Blamed for GPhone "Slip" Leaving

Few have ever heard of the punitive measures that Google has written down for those who do it wrong, and mentioning the Google Phone when it was a hush-hush project is probably something that would fall under that category. The result? Isabel Aguilera, the CEO of Google Spain and Portugal, is on her way out of the co...

14 January 2008
15:11 GMT

Search Engine CEO Shuffling

The reported move of Jim Lanzone, the CEO of Ask.com, out of his office and the entering of Jim Safka in his place may look puzzling to the outside world, but not to the IAC, the parent company of the search engine. Letting go of the person who turned your business around and made your company get noticed, and even p...

10 January 2008
06:29 GMT


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