Tuesday June 24, 2008
Though Bill Gates leaves his full-time duties at Microsoft on Friday, he remains nonexecutive chairman and will participate in select projects at the direction of Microsoft's current executive management team. Below is a rundown of who they are and what some of their near-term challenges are in Microsoft's post-Gates world.
-- Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer and the man in charge of it all. Ballmer's main challenge at the moment is to figure out a way for Microsoft to put a dent in Google's advertising dominance now that the Yahoo deal has fizzled. Ballmer also must help Microsoft diversify its revenue base, which still mainly comes from Windows and Office. He also must lead Microsoft through Gates' transition and prove to everyone that he can carry Microsoft forward even without Gates by his side.
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Tuesday June 24, 2008
The former chairman, chief technology officer and cofounder of Broadcom admitted that he lied to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and agreed to pay more than US$12 million for doing so.
In a plea agreement filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Henry Samueli agreed to pay the $12 million plus a $250,000 fine and serve five years of probation without any occupation restrictions.
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Tuesday June 24, 2008
Mozilla's big plan on Tuesday to set a world record for downloads with the Firefox 3 browser hit a snag when its Web site would not work properly.
Though the big "Download Day" was set to begin at 1 p.m. ET, Mozilla's Web site was down or working sporadically all morning on the East Coast, and users still could not download Firefox 3 from the site more than an hour later.
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Tuesday June 24, 2008
The U.S. Executive Office of the President doesn't have to turn over information on an alleged 10 million missing e-mail messages to a government watchdog group seeking information on how the e-mails were lost, a judge ruled Monday.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) had sought information on the missing e-mails through the 41-year-old Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), but Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that the Office of Administration (OA) in the Executive Office of the President is not subject to the law that allows citizens to request that the U.S. government disclose the contents of previously unreleased documents.
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