AGENDA SETTERS - WHO ARE THE DRIVING FORCES IN THE TECH INDUSTRY?

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Agenda Setters 2005
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Meg Whitman

No. 26 Meg Whitman, president and CEO, eBay

Last year's position: 13

Though down 13 places on the Agenda Setters list from last year, Meg Whitman's hardly losing momentum.

As eBay's growth has slowed, Whitman hasn't sat around - she's gone on the offensive with a string of ambitious acquisitions across the globe. The online auction giant is buying up both competitors and players that could expand eBay's horizons in ecommerce and take them places they've never been before, such as voice over IP.

After rumours that the likes of Google and Rupert Murdoch were sniffing around Skype, it was Whitman who stepped forwarded and sealed a deal with the VoIP starlet. Experts are split on how the union will work out in the long run but it certainly shows Whitman's guts and willingness to set, not follow, the agenda.

Along with buyouts, the year has seen eBay test the water for digital music downloads and fight back at the scammers using its name in their spam and phishing exploits.

The company that spawned the online auction phenomenon just won't be stopped - and it's Whitman who's leading the charge.

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"China clearly has many dimensions and many are setting an agenda. It's at the political level, it's at the investment level, it's at the contract manufacturing level and it's at the software level - it's all over."
--Peter Rowell, Regent Associates executive chairman and Agenda Setters panellist


AGENDA SETTERS .EXTRA

How to spend $4 billion? Google has plenty of ideas New York Times via International Herald Tribune

The resurrection of Steve Jobs The Economist

Developing the Skype ecosystem: Q&A with CEO Niklas Zennstrom DigiTimes.com

Ballmer: Microsoft 'not above learning from others' eWeek


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