The turn of the year brought in a lot of new things for Volcom and amid the transition to a new CEO was the re-tooled Company Mission to include an increased focus on sustainability for the 22 year old, Orange County based action sports ...
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Burger King chief executive officer Bernardo Hees will become the next chief of ketchup producer HJ Heinz, following its $28bn acquisition by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and Brazilian private-equity firm 3G Capital. However, ...
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LiqTech chairman Aldo Petersen said: “We are extremely pleased that Finn Helmer, a proven leader, has agreed to accept the role as CEO of LiqTech. Over the course of more than 40 years Finn has in many different situations ...
It's been a turbulent decade at Hewlett-Packard, with board members and CEOs resigning or being ousted for all manner of colorful reasons, including strategic missteps, accusations of spying on journalists and alleged sexual harassment. ...
Peder Holk Nielsen takes office as President & CEO of Novozymes. "I am proud and honored to lead this great company forward," says Peder Holk Nielsen. "Novozymes is in a very strong position, and we will continue with our overall ...
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Yahoo announced Monday that it is buying Summly, a London-based company that developed an app that condenses information and makes it easily and quickly readable on mobile devices. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed, but it ...
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ICANN's new CEO Fadi Chehade, who took over in October, is on a mission to help politicians around the world understand the importance of keeping the Internet intact and open, and is also working to bring home the addition of new generic ...
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ARM Holdings, the hugely successful Cambridge-based microprocessor designer, has announced that CEO Warren East is to retire in July this year, and will be replaced by ARM president Simon Segars. East joined ARM in 1994 to establish the ...
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Research by Microsoft has shown 70% of office workers get 'more done' working away from the office. The research is launched today (18 March) to coincide with the start of Anywhere Working Week and is an Ipsos MORI study of UK office ...
A US judge has ordered Apple's chief executive Tim Cook to testify in a case brought by the government accusing the tech giant of conspiring to raise e-book prices. US Federal Judge Denise Cote issued the order after a teleconference ...
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Cervélo co-founder Phil White is taking a larger role within the Pon Bicycle Group, the bike division of Pon Holdings, which bought Cervélo a little over a year ago. White, who has been CEO of Cervélo, has been named ...
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Despite Yahoo's efforts to quell some of the furor, the news that it was calling telecommuters back into the office stirred up a heated debate in the tech sector and beyond. Last month, Yahoo management told employees that the company ...
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Intel is actively to consider the next CEO, choose from the external candidates, the potential candidates including Motorola Mobile CEO Sanjay Jha and VMware CEO Patrick Gelsinger, who had worked at Intel before. Intel has said that the ...
UK-based pharmaceutical development and device company Glide Pharma has appointed Dr. Mark Carnegie-Brown as its chief executive officer (CEO). Earlier to this appointment, Carnegie-Brown served as CEO of Evolutec, a biological drug ...
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Checkpoint Systems, Inc. announced the appointment of Marc T. Giles to its board of directors, effective immediately. Mr. Giles spent most of his career with industrial technology companies beginning in sales and marketing before ...
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