Under the helm of its new CEO, Steve Bennett, Symantec last week outlined a re-organisation intended to lead to a leaner company and a new range of security and back-up services and products. These products would be built primarily on ...
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Late Apple chief Steve Jobs threatened to slap Palm with patent lawsuits to prevent the tech rival from hiring away its talent, according to court documents available on Wednesday. Unsealed copies of an email exchanged between Jobs and ...
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Australia-based miner Rio Tinto has announced that it will register an impairment charge of $3 billion in its financial results for 2012 due to underperformance of its Mozambican coal business and an additional $10 billion write-down from ...
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Longtime VMware Chief Technology Officer Steve Herrod has stepped down from his post, leaving the company during a challenging time. Herrod has taken a job at the venture capital firm General Catalyst, where he will work as a managing ...
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Industry job changes at Garmin, Profile Design, Wheels Manufacturing, Interbike and Todson Whittingham leaves Wheels SUPERIOR, CO (BRAIN) — Dave Whittingham has left Wheels Manufacturing, where he was marketing manager. The ...
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The newly appointed chairman of Indonesia's special taskforce for the upstream sector will focus on various issues during his tenure, among them increasing oil and gas production and boosting reserves, he told Platts Monday. Rudi ...
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Craig Mundie has left his role as Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer to become senior adviser to the CEO, as he winds down before retirement. Mundie had led strategy since founder Bill Gates stepped down from full-time work ...
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Microsoft has sold 40 million licenses of the Windows 8 OS since its launch a month ago. "We believe Windows 8 is shaping up is as one of the company's most successful products," said Tami Reller, Microsoft's chief marketing officer and ...
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Cornwall Council leader Alec Robertson has lost a confidence vote and will step down over a controversial proposal to outsource shared council services that has split Cornwall Council. Cornwall Council leader Alec Robertson lost the vote ...
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Research into the UK outsourcing sector in 2010 found that 7.4% of the UK’s total production came from outsourcing, and about a third of that – some 38.7bn – was IT outsourcing. It is a sector that adapts to market ...
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US President Barack Obama should strongly consider issuing an executive to help secure computer networks from attack, says former White House cyber security chief Howard Schmidt. The advice comes as a Senate cyber security bill remains ...
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Chinese infant formula group Synutra International has appointed Ning Cai as its CFO. Cai, who has 13 years of experience in corporate finance and investment banking, takes over from interim CFO Weiguo Zhang who will remain as group ...
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The NHS is looking for a new CIO following the vacancy left after Katie Davis stepped down as managing director for NHS Informatics at the Department for Health in July. Katie Davis had been in the role for about a year after Christine ...
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Ailsa Beaton, director of information at the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), has stepped down. Beaton is to leave the MPS in mid 2013, having worked as director of information for 12 years. No details are yet available as to ...
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Phil Pavitt has stepped down as HMRC’s CIO to join insurance giant Aviva as global director of IT transformation. Mark Hall has taken over as CIO of HMRC, having worked as deputy CIO at the department for two years and director of ...
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