Co Founder
1109 Stories
India's social ills soothed by outsourcing leaders?
Insight perspective India's successful tech executives are beginning to focus on social problems. Could this be just what the country needs?
Tags: IT outsourcing, Leadership, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Outsourcing, India, income tax, Saritha Rai, insurance, co-founder, bank
Yahoo redesigns data center, ditches carbon offsets
News A new data center in Lockport, N.Y., is part of a strategy that Yahoo believes will allow it to end carbon offset purchases to reach carbon-neutral status.
Tags: Green IT, David Filo, Yahoo! Inc., Governor, Server, New York, co-founder, strategy, data center, leadership
ISPs a vanishing breed
Blogs I'm not sure if the situation is similar in other countries, but the technology companies we've come to know as ISPs (In...
Google co-founder, wife give US$500K to Creative Commons
News Sergey Brin and 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki donate half a million to copyright reform group, to help build out its science initiative.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Creative Commons, Sergey Brin, co-founder, financial, founder, blog
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey invested in Foursquare
News Ex-CEO and current chairman is one of the startup's undisclosed angel investors, sources tell CNET News.
Tags: Web 2.0, Industry Veteran, Bay Area, New York, payment, co-founder, knowledge, SEC filing, Web 2.0
MySpace names its first chief financial officer
News The News Corp. social network hires Mark Rosenbaum as CFO less than a week after it announced a new chief technology officer.
Tags: Web 2.0, Facebook, MySpace, Web 2.0, CFO, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, News Corp., layoff, chief technology officer, co-founder
Twitter hits 5 billion tweets
News Twitter hits landmark tweet amid recent explosion of mainstream and celebrity use of the microblogging service.
Tags: Twitter Inc., dot-com, Bay Area, San Francisco, co-founder, valuation
eBay jettisons Skype for US$2.8B
News E-commerce giant eBay announces it is selling Skype unit for US$2.75 billion to an investor group that includes Marc Andreessen's new venture.
Tags: E-business, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., IP Telephony, Marc Andreessen, co-founder, CEO, founder
Twitter tweaks terms of service
News Microblogging site assures users that they own their tweets while leaving "the door open for advertising" opportunities.
Tags: Web 2.0, Terms Of Service, photograph, API, Facebook, co-founder, blog, Web 2.0
Stable version of Chrome 3.0 released
News Google has completed work on a stable version of its Chrome browser, officially adding support for new Web video technologies and tweaking a few key features.
Tags: Web browsers, Sergey Brin, Plug-in, Web Browser, Video, Apple Macintosh, I/O, co-founder, Netbook, Web browsers
Should India now look forward to unique ID cards?
Blogs In his book Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century, Nandan Nilekani, co-founder of Infosys, talks about how the futu...
Twitter still doesn't have a head of sales
News But, in a speech at the Brainstorm: Tech conference, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone insists that the company knows what it is doing.
Tags: Web 2.0, Twitter, Conference, Sales, Worker, VP, co-founder, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., financial, TechCrunch
MySpace co-founder agrees to step down as CEO
News CEO and co-founder of MySpace, Chris DeWolfe, steps down from the post, but will stay on as a “strategic advisor”.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, MySpace, Twitter, COO, News Corp., social networking, Facebook, co-founder, network
Fusion-io touts 'fastest' solid-state drive
News Fusion-io announces the ioDrive Duo, which the company claims is the fastest to date.
Tags: Storage, Steve Wozniak, Chief Scientist, PCI Express, Chip, business application, PCI, Fusion-io, Bandwidth, co-founder
VC's automated Twitter feed spreads malware
News Auto-feed tweet distributed by Guy Kawasaki's Twitter account sends people to a link that installs a Trojan.
Tags: Security, Web 2.0, Twitter, Malware, Sophos Plc., Graham Cluley, Video, Account, antivirus company, co-founder
