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Apple Loses Two High-Profile Staffers in One Shot

Whether it has something to do with the regime at Apple, or simply because there are more profitable opportunities under a different roof, one Andy Miller of the iAd division, and Louie Mantia, who served as a visual interface designer, are leaving Apple behind to take a different route.Reports indicate that Apple&rs...

18 August 2011
06:31 GMT

Acer Joins AMD In Not Having a CEO

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

NVIDIA CFO Resigns

It appears that Advanced Micro Devices is not the only company going through some management changes, as NVIDIA has now announced that a department head will only be staying employed until May 31, 2011.It may not be overly common for a corporation to suddenly let go of one of its major employees and/or company offic...

16 March 2011
08:44 GMT

HBGary Federal CEO Resigns Following Anonymous Hack

HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr announced that he is stepping down from his position to focus on rebuilding his reputation after Anonymous leaked thousands of his business emails.Aaron Barr is the primary reason why the hacktivist group picked on the security firm and its sister company, HBGary, in the first place.Barr...

1 March 2011
04:51 GMT

Alibaba.com Fraudulent Activity Prompts High Profile Resignations

Alibaba.com chief executive officer David Wei and chief operating officer Elvis Lee resigned from the company following a year-long fraud involving 2,300 verified vendors.Alibaba.com is the largest business-to-business trading platform in the world and has, according to its own account, over 50 million users as of Se...

21 February 2011
09:42 GMT

Bad Tablet Strategy Got AMD's CEO Removed

The population of Earth may have been taken by surprise by how AMD's CEO suddenly resigned, and it seems that, according to reports, Dirk Meyer was actually pushed out by the board of directors.“Dirk became CEO during difficult times. He successfully stabilized AMD while simultaneously concluding strategi...

11 January 2011
05:00 GMT

Bing Engineering Manager Leaves Microsoft for Yahoo

Microsoft has confirmed that Don Bradford, the Engineering Manager in charge of Bing’s client user experience, has resigned from Microsoft.As for Yahoo, the company has confirmed that Bradford is joining in, but has not yet disclosed on what his title will be, Mary Jo Foley reports.Officials at Microsoft did no...

29 September 2010
04:58 GMT

Nokia's Anssi Vanjoki, Head of Mobile Solutions, Resigns

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has lost two executives in under one week, with its President and CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, being replaced last week, and with Anssi Vanjoki, head of Mobile Solutions at Nokia, announcing his resignation. In case there are some of you out of the loop, we should note that Anssi Vanjo...

13 September 2010
03:35 GMT

HP CEO Involved in Harassment Investigation, Resigns

Lawsuits are definitely nothing new on the IT market, considering the many antitrust charges and patent litigation that arise every so often. Still, though they are common, their consequences can be quite unusual at times, as is proven by a particularly curious case that is plaguing HP's now former Chief Execut...

7 August 2010
04:38 GMT

Google Board Member Resigns, Sticks with Apple’s

Search giant Google has announced the resignation of one of its directors, Arthur Levinson, who is also on Apple’s board. The announcement comes shortly after Google's Chief Executive, Eric Schmidt, left Apple's board of directors due to the increasing competition between the two giant companies. A r...

13 October 2009
06:06 GMT

Apple’s Resignation from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Draws Criticism

After Apple’s announcement of resigning from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over its stance on climate change, the Chamber has fired back with a letter, stating the Mac maker “didn't take the time to understand” its position. The letter, signed by Chamber President Thomas Donohue, was addressed t...

7 October 2009
08:33 GMT

Apple Resigns US Chamber of Commerce over Climate-Change Policy

Apple is the latest company to resign from the United States Chamber of Commerce because of the chamber’s strident criticism of plans to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in the US. Three large companies made the same move in recent weeks for the same reason, according to a report over at The New York Times. Acco...

6 October 2009
03:01 GMT

Acting U.S. Cyber Security Czar Calls It Quits

Melissa Hathaway, the acting senior director for Cyberspace for the National Security and Homeland Security Councils, has resigned from her position and will be returning to the private sector. She claimed to have taken the decision because of personal motives. Ms. Hathaway took on the position of acting senior dire...

4 August 2009
09:12 GMT

UK MP to Resign in Support of Gary McKinnon

Andrew MacKinlay, Labour member of the Parliament for Thurrock, Essex, has decided that it's time to call it quits at the next elections, after his fellow Labour MPs failed to vote for a review of the 2003 Extradition Treaty in the House of Commons, despite previously signing motions in support of British hacker...

28 July 2009
08:36 GMT

Mario Rivas Is History, AMD Appoints New Server Chief

Advanced Micro Devices has just announced a major change in its executive board, as Mario Rivas, the company's former senior vice president of the Computing Solutions Group, left to pursue other challenges. According to the company, his position will be taken by Randy Allen, formerly chief of AMD's server b...

13 May 2008
03:07 GMT

OLPC, Back in Business with New Executive Team

Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child charity project has just got a new president and chief operating officer. The move is part of the restructuring and reshaping policy announced in mid-March, a policy that forced many of the executives involved in the project to pack their bags to brighter ideals.Accordi...

5 May 2008
06:30 GMT

OLPC Runs Out of Executives: Walter Bender Resigns

Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child charity foundation lost another executive on their way to delivering inexpensive and user-friendly educational notebooks. Walter Bender, the former President of Software and Content, has just resigned.The official explanation for Bender's departure is that there ha...

22 April 2008
05:39 GMT

CFO Is Leaving Electronic Arts

Even as big game companies ride a wave of unprecedented sales and expansion, there are bound to be discontents. Warren Jenson, who has been Chief Financial Officer at giant Electronic Arts since 2002, has recently announced his intention of parting ways with his employer. No clear and official reason was offered for ...

24 March 2008
19:06 GMT

Sony President Resigns

Phil Harrison, President of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, will quit his job by the end of the month, an official press release states. He will be replaced with immediate effect by Kazuo Hirai, President and Group CEO of SCEI. The resignation reasons are unclear right now and they seem to stay that wa...

25 February 2008
05:27 GMT

VIA Engineers Flee Toward Asustek Computer

Via Technologies is a computer hardware company known for its low performance, low power and low price products that can usually be found in entry level computer systems or in embedded systems where a low power drain coupled with a low manufacturing and selling price is more important than raw computing power.As the ...

7 September 2007
11:37 GMT


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