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Report: Apple board to discuss Schmidt replacement next week
News Directors will meet next week to talk about who can fill the role recently vacated by the Google CEO, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Apple Inc., chairman, CEO, Eric Schmidt, desktop operating system, Steve Jobs, board
Microsoft will open stores in Arizona, California
News Software maker confirms it has signed the first two leases as it follows Apple's lead and opens its own set of retail stores.
Tags: Software, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Arizona, Software, retail company, Mobility, U.S., California, PC
Report: Facebook, Nielsen to partner on ad stats
News An announcement in New York this week will unveil a program called "Brand Lift", which aims to put a number on the effectiveness of advertisements on Facebook.
Tags: Web 2.0, Internet advertising, Palo Alto, social networking, New York, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, marketing, Wall Street Journal, Internet advertising
Facebook's COO: Response to disabled accounts was 'too slow'
News Sheryl Sandberg says the database failure was a consequence of the social network's rapid growth, which sometimes causes unexpected snags.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Facebook, Social Networking, Database, Palo Alto, network, California, Web 2.0, COO
NetApp names new CEO, reports solid quarter
News Storage company names chief operating officer Tom Georgens as CEO, while chief of 15 years Dan Warmenhoven has become executive chairman.
Tags: Storage, Data Management, EMC Corp., Storage, Wall Street, chairman, CEO, R&D, chief operating officer, board
Google strikes a Twitter search deal, too
News Mere hours after a deal with Microsoft was announced to index real-time 'tweets' in Bing, Google posted on its blog that it has reached an agreement with Twitter, too.
Tags: Search, Web 2.0, Web logs, Facebook, Google Inc., Twitter Inc., Web 2.0, Microsoft Corp., social search, product manager
Seagate announces 800 job cuts, new CEO
News The storage supplier has said it is shedding one-tenth of its U.S. workforce, and losing its two most senior executives.
Tags: Storage, Global strategic management, Supplier, Seagate Technology LLC, Workforce, Worker, chief technology officer, CEO, job, chief operating officer
Former Yahoo sales exec to head AOL's Platform-A
News Greg Coleman, who left Yahoo early in 2008, will take over from acting Platform-A head Lynda Clazirio.
Tags: Internet advertising, Direct marketing, Mobile advertising, Print advertising, Yahoo! Inc., America Online Inc., Sales, Advertisement, Direct marketing, New York
Unisys made Aussie MD redundant
News Company releases its Australian and New Zealand managing director only months after hiring him.
Tags: Outsourcing, Web services, Nortel Networks Corp., SAP AG, Spokesperson, Australia, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Unisys Corp.
Apple's Jobs to skip annual shareholder meeting
News CEO Steve Jobs' six-month medical leave of absence will keep him from attending Wednesday's annual meeting for the first time since he returned to Apple in 1997.
Tags: Business plans, Business ethics, Apple Inc., Bloomberg L.P., Absence, Cupertino, succession planning, CEO, corporate governance, job
Apple's CEO conundrum
News Tim Cook has run Apple well in Steve Jobs' absence, keeping alive the question of whether and how soon he might be named CEO.
Tags: Consumer Technology, Personal Computers, Leadership, Apple Inc., Sales, Apple iPod, chairman, CEO, senior vice president, Apple iPhone
Intel shakeup gives EMC a longtime chip exec
News Two tech titans are reshuffling their top ranks, with chip bigwig Pat Gelsinger headed from Intel to storage specialist EMC.
Tags: Processors, Business Strategies & Functions, Intel Corp., Paul Otellini, Chip, EMC Corp., Storage, general counsel, Joe Tucci, Processors
Facebook surges to 120 million users
News Social-networking site has grown by 30 million members in three months. Will it get more by integrating business applications running at Salesforce.com's Force.com?
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Web services, Business applications, Starbucks Corp., chief technology officer, Facebook, News.com, network, partnership
Facebook and MySpace 'in talks'? Of course
News Good move for both companies as MySpace tries to move away from its image as a social network that lost to Facebook.
Tags: Web 2.0, Facebook, Social Networking, MySpace, U.K., network, Web 2.0, CEO, Video, News Corp.
Microsoft partners with Facebook, Twitter on search
News Microsoft executives Qi Lu and Yusuf Mehdi debut Twitter integration with Bing search results at Web 2.0 Summit. The Facebook partnership will come at a later date.
Tags: Search, Facebook, Google Inc., Twitter Inc., search engine, Microsoft Corp., partnership, Search Result, financial, Web 2.0
