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3 Silicon Valley execs who could replace Microsoft's Ballmer 27 Aug 2013 | 01:46 am
Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft Corp., announced Friday that he would retired within 12 months. Now the question on everybody's mind in the tech community is, who will replace him? It's unlikely Ball...
Disconnected America: 1 in 3 adults don't have broadband access 27 Aug 2013 | 12:11 am
It's easy to forget in uber-connected areas such as Silicon Valley or the Puget Sound region, but not every American sports two smartphones, a tablet, a laptop and two wireless routers. In fact, a ne...
VMware snags former Microsoft exec Tony Scott as CIO 27 Aug 2013 | 12:02 am
VMware has tapped Tony Scott, Microsoft's former corporate vice president and chief information officer, to be the Palo Alto, Calif., company's chief information officer and senior vice president. Sc...
Ballmer departure moved up 'drastically,' says report 26 Aug 2013 | 06:39 pm
Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer's announcement that he will retire within a year came sooner than Ballmer originally had planned. The Wall Street Journal's All Things D reports Ballmer's departure ...
Amazon's cloud suffers Sunday outage 26 Aug 2013 | 06:17 pm
Amazon.com Inc.'s cloud services division, Amazon Web Services, suffered an outage Sunday that affected websites such as Airbnb and Facebook Inc.'s Instagram. The Wall Street Journal reports the Amaz...
Opscode names Crist new CEO 26 Aug 2013 | 05:48 pm
Seattle cloud software company Opscode said it's named Barry Crist its new CEO, replacing Mitch Hill, who is stepping down to address a personal health issue. Hill will remain on Opscode's board of d...
Amazon's downtown Seattle plans draw national attention 26 Aug 2013 | 05:46 pm
Amazon.com Inc.'s massive office plans for Seattle have drawn national attention -- now from the New York Times. The Times reports that Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) current Seattle employee base of 15,000...
A lesson in contrasts: Alaska Airlines’ smooth succession 24 Aug 2013 | 01:56 am
In May 2012, Brad Tilden succeeded Bill Ayer as CEO of Alaska Air Group and its subsidiary airlines, Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air. He had spent three decades at the company and 10 years as its CEO....
Yahoo beats out Google, Facebook, Amazon in web traffic 23 Aug 2013 | 11:20 pm
Yahoo's Web traffic edged out Google for the first time since 2011. It also surpassed Microsoft, Facebook, AOL and Amazon, according to a new report from comScore, a digital media research firm. The ...
Microsoft's big question: Hire from within or bring in an outsider? 23 Aug 2013 | 11:19 pm
There will be plenty of speculation in the coming weeks and months about who will replace Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Neither Ballmer or the company have indicated that they have someone in mind, bu...
