Apple has announced that the company’s senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, Bob Mansfield, will retire and now the role will be taken care by Apple’s vice president of iPad Hardware Engineering, Dan Riccio, over several months. The entire hardware engineering team will continue to report to Mansfield until his departure. The entire hardware engineering team will continue to report to Mansfield until his departure. As senior VP of Hardware Engineering, Mansfield has led Mac hardware engineering since 2005, iPhone and iPod...
Yahoo’s former CEO Scott Thompson may left the company with no severance but he will do get “Make-Whole” cash bonus and already vested restricted stock units related to him leaving that job in January to become the CEO of Yahoo. What sounds good is that the total of them is about $7 million, reports AllThingsD. The company said in filling: “Yahoo! and Mr. Thompson agreed to terminate all other agreements between them, including Mr. Thompson’s offer letter, all outstanding but not fully vested equity awards and Yahoo!’s other...
Dow Jones reports – via The Wall Street Journal – that T-Mobile USA’s chief marketing officer Cole Brodman will leave the position by the end of this month. Brodman who held several posts over a 17-year career with T-Mobile will continue working as a strategic adviser. “It’s a retirement from T-Mobile,” said Brodman, 46, in an interview....
Amazon’s Steven Kessel, a 13-year veteran of Amazon’s digital business who was responsible for the company’s original e-reader, is taking time off, reports AllThingsD. As SVP of Worldwide Digital Media, Kessel oversees the company’s digital strategy, including books, music, video and the Kindle. He served as the VP of U.S. Books, Music, Video and DVD, and...
Editor’s Note: Guest Author Pratibha is a technology enthusiast interested in analysing and reporting about different technologies. Facebook, the world’s largest social networking giant is in the door step to go public, after announcing a $5 billion IPO in February, but interestingly to note that its board have only of white men launched by FACE IT Campaign .”We believe that this board of white men should include women of all colors,” states the FACE IT Campaign mission.”Because Facebook should go public with...
RIM issued fiscal fourth-quarter results that once again were far grimmer than analysts had expected, as BlackBerry sales and shipments fell sharply amid intensifying competition, and writedowns tied to inventory and acquisitions left the company with a loss of $125 million (U.S.), its first quarterly loss since fiscal 2005. RIM also announced a number of executive changes, including the fact that longtime co-CEO Jim Balsillie is stepping down from the company’s board. “As I complete my retirement from RIM, I’m grateful for this...
Reuters reports that an Israel company called as NDS, which specializes in developing software for multi-channel television networks, is in advance stage of acquisition by Cisco System. The deal is worth $5 billion. NDS was founded in 1988 and headquartered in London provides electronic security solutions for web applications and specializes in the development of interactive systems for secure delivery of entertainment and information to digital TVs, digital set-top boxes, PCs and mobile devices. NDS is 51 percent owned by the Permira...
