Items tagged with 'CEO'
Despite Analyst Agitation, An AMD Atom Is No Answer to Company's Woes
Several financial analysts have weighed in on AMD's Q2 performance since the company announced results, and their collective opinion has been anything but good. In the wake of its earnings call, AMD has been taken to task over its failure to provide an answer to Atom (or a netbook processor in general), weak margins, and... Read More
Jon Rubinstein Takes Over As Palm CEO
Well, isn't this something? We knew that Palm was looking to reinvent itself after the Centro, and that was never more apparent than when the slipping company managed to convince Apple's own Jon Rubinstein to step in and take on a high-level management position. Jon is largely credited with putting the wind back in Palm's... Read More
Intel CEO Voices Positivity About Future Sales
Good news for Intel, chip makers, PC manufacturers and the economy at large: Intel's CEO is seemingly upbeat about the industry, and recently stated that things were "so far, so good" in Q2. The comment came from the top man Paul Otellini, where we was addressing analysts during a conference call this week. Specifically,... Read More
Intel Chairman Craig Barrett to Retire in May
Intel Chairman Craig Barrett to Retire in May SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 23, 2009 – Intel Corporation today announced that Craig Barrett intends to retire from active management and his role as chairman and member of the board of directors in May at the company's annual stockholders' meeting. Barrett joined Intel in... Read More
Google CEO not interested in Tech Czar position
Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt has declined the opportunity to be the "Tech Czar" for the Obama administration. While Schmidt helped campaign for the new President Elect, and has been advising the Obama campaign on technology and energy as part of his 17-member Transition Economic Advisory Board, the prospect of becoming... Read More
Android Isn’t Good Enough Yet, Says Sprint CEO
We’re not so sure what to think of this: According to recent reports, Sprint’s CEO Dan Hesse reportedly made a comment to the National Press Club in Washington, saying that Android (in its current form) is not “good enough to put the Sprint brand on it.” Although we can’t weigh in on Android’s usefulness with much personal... Read More
AMD BoD Elects Dirk Meyer CEO, President
AMD Board of Directors Elects Dirk Meyer President and CEO- Hector Ruiz Named Executive Chairman of AMD –SUNNYVALE, Calif. — July 17, 2008 — AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced that its board of directors elected President and COO Dirk Meyer as the company’s chief executive officer. Meyer succeeds Hector Ruiz, who will... Read More
Sony CEO Shows off a 0.3mm Thick OLED TV
The Wall Street Journal's sixth All Things Digital conference (D6) continues to make news--this time with Sony Corp.'s CEO, Sir Howard Stringer, showing off an OLED TV prototype that he claims is a mere "0.3mm" thick, has a contrast ratio of "a million to one," and is "a hundred times brighter than an LCD screen." Sony... Read More
Jerry Yang: The Booster Chair / Sippie Cup CEO
The on-again/off-again Microsoft/Yahoo! deal is on again - maybe. There's something about being a co-founder of a business that affects how you think. Jerry Yang is a co-founder and the CEO of Yahoo! and he seems to be laboring under the mis-impression that "co-founder" still means "owner." If you want to own a business,... Read More
Middle East SCO Buyer Wants New CEO
As with any takeover or bailout, there's always the question of which, if any, members of management will be left standing by the new powers that be. SCO's bailout offer appears to be no different, and there are no real surprises as to who the mysterious buyer wants out of the picture.The deal, in which an unnamed... Read More
Crytek CEO And NVIDIA VP Chat About Crysis
The team at InCrysis had a bit of a heart to heart with Crytek CEO, Cevat Yerli and NVIDIA's VP of Content Relations, Roy Taylor, in sort of a state-of-the-nation fashoin that offers a bit of insight as to what's going on with game play, the engine itself and performance optimizations that both companies are working hard... Read More
Rumor: AMD CEO Ruiz To Be Replaced?
As with all rumors, take the following story with a grain of salt until it is confirmed: It appears that a rumor is circulating amongst Wall Street traders that AMD might replace CEO Hector Ruiz.This may not be entirely surprising to some as AMD hasn't been performing at their best in recent months. The K10 is far... Read More
NBC CEO: Apple Destroyed Music Pricing
There hasn't been much love lost between NBC Universal and Apple, especially in the wake of the PR battle that recently took place when NBC announced they were not renewing their contract to have their programming available via iTunes after their current contract is up. Whatever the true reason for that particular... Read More
Former Take-Two CEO Gets 5 Years Probation
Former Take-Two CEO, Ryan Brant, has pleaded guilty to the illegal backdating of stock-options. What kind of penalty did he get?A few million dollars, 5 years of probation and national media attention that will probably embarrass him in a way that few people ever get to experience.“Brant was the first of three officials... Read More
Sony CEO: Jobs Is Greedy
While Gordon Gekko (from the movie Wall Street) might have argued that greed is good, excessive amounts of it aren’t always conducive to effective business relationships.Enter Steve Jobs and Sony CEO Howard Stringer. Both of them are running corporations that sell music, and it appears that friction has developed as a... Read More
Yahoo CEO Terry Semel Replaced By Jerry Yang
Yahoo investors have finally gotten their way and a replacement for (now former) CEO Terry Semel has been named: Co-founder Jerry Yang. It isn't that Terry Semel wasn't a capable leader, in fact he lead the company in the dark times that are now referred to as the .com crash era, but investors felt that he lacked the ability... Read More
NVIDIA CEO Testimony on 3dfx
NVIDIA's Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang has been in federal bankruptcy court for the last few days defending his company's move to buy one-time rival 3dfx. During his testimony, Jen-Hsun has made some interesting statements regarding his motivation for the acquisition, including his thoughts on 3dfx's engineers.... Read More
Michael Dell Discovers New CEO While Shaving
Michael Dell, no doubt after an exhaustive search, thinks he's found just the guy to lead Dell back to the top spot in personal computer sales. Dell Chairman and founder Michael Dell reclaimed the position of chief executive officer, ousting Kevin Rollins after he lost the lead in personal computers and failed to revive... Read More
Interview with Amiga CEO, Bill McEwen
Here's one for the "Blast from the past" department. Well, at least the name of the company is a blast from the past. Current CEO of Amiga Inc., Bill McEwen, has been interviewed by the folks at the TempleOfTech. He answered questions about the state of the next AmigaOS and even talks about... Read More
Interview with Dave Orton (ATI CEO)
DriverHeaven has just posted an interview with Dave Orton, CEO of ATI, regarding ATI's future and the merger with AMD. Good information here, directly from one of the main men involved. We've also had a number of question answered directly from AMD in our Q&A, right here. "One of the largest mergers in... Read More
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