2005 ceo capital
eBay sells most of Skype in $2bn deal
News The Andreessen Horowitz venture capital group was launched in July by Marc Andreessen, the founder of Netscape and co-founder of Opsware, and Ben Horowitz, also co-founder of Opsware. Skype is a strong standalone... [01 Sep 2009]
eBay set to hang up on Skype?
News The investment group will reportedly include Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital group launched in July by Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape and co-founder of Opsware, and Ben Horowitz, also co-founder of Opsware. [01 Sep 2009]
Steven Bandrowczak, CIO, Nortel
Comment All of this feeds back into the goal to reduce the operational expenditure to capital expenditure ratio of the IT budget from 80:20 down to 70:30 over the next 18 months. I sit down with the CEO and talk... [01 Apr 2008]
Niklas Zennström
AS Profile In May it picked up $45m in funding from venture capital firms. If that wasn't enough, as Skype CEO, and co-founder back in 2003, Zennström remains responsible for setting strategy and overseeing the... [12 Oct 2007]
eBay takes $900m hit for Skype buy
News Jordan Rohan, managing director and internet analyst at RBC Capital Markets, said: "The Skype service has been tremendously popular as a free service. But despite this success, eBay's CEO Meg Whitman... [02 Oct 2007]
What the Budget means for the tech industry
News Service-orientated SMEs in particular will suffer from the three per cent corporate tax hike as they do not have the £50,000 capital available, Stobart added. Paul Stobart, CEO of software company Sage,... [22 Mar 2007]
Fiorina, Dunn slam HP 'old-boy network'
News Perkins, one of the founders of Silicon Valley's most prominent venture capital firm, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, was the man who forced HP to go public with the truth about the company's leak hunt and the... [09 Oct 2006]
WiMax company chalks up $900m backing
News Under the transaction, Intel Capital, which earlier invested in the company, will put $600m more into Clearwire, the single biggest investment for Intel Capital ever. Sriram Viswanathan, vice president... [06 Jul 2006]
Avis offshores Manchester call centre... to Barcelona
News Murray Hennessy, CEO of Avis Europe, said in a statement: "We are working closely with our staff to achieve these essential changes. Car hire company Avis Europe is to cut 200 jobs as part of a €53m cost-cutting... [17 Feb 2006]
Gates tops list of most-admired business chiefs
News Technology executives in general did well in the "2005 CEO Capital" survey (which included chairmen, as well as chief executives) done by global public affairs firm Burson-Marsteller and... [15 Dec 2005]
Analysis: Open source unwrapped
Comment That's more than double the total for the whole of last year, according to research from the National Venture Capital Association, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Thomson Venture Economics. If a community doesn't form and... [08 Nov 2005]
Carphone Warehouse to join £350m Onetel bid war
News In its full year results, the company recently said: "Although the ability to offer a telecoms solution to our customers remains important, as part of focusing our capital and resources on energy and related home... [19 Sep 2005]
Oracle looks ahead with I-flex deal
News California-based Oracle said it is acquiring Citigroup Venture Capital International's 41 per cent ownership stake in I-flex. CEO Larry Ellison said in a statement: "Banking is a strategic industry for... [02 Aug 2005]
Intel in the money
News The company also has bigger plans for research and development and capital expenditures in 2005. Intel expects its capital spending for 2005 to measure between $4.9bn... [12 Jan 2005]
Meta Group Quarterly: What CIOs need to succeed
Comment By 2005 to 2006, early successes at formal human capital management mentoring programs will become mainstream, with nearly 40 per cent of global 2000 companies using human capital... [02 Aug 2004]