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News October also saw the ninth annual silicon.com Agenda Setters list of the most influential individuals in tech go live - with Apple CEO Steve Jobs being voted number one. For the full... [09 Nov 2009]
Steve Jobs
AS Profile Steve Jobs becomes the only person, in the 10-year history of Agenda Setters, to have made it to the top of the list - twice. There's no doubt Jobs has been one to watch for some time - particularly... [08 Oct 2009]
Mark Zuckerberg
AS Profile As founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg topped the Agenda Setters list in 2007 after the social network really took off, but he plummeted to 47 last year as judges felt his time had passed.... [08 Oct 2009]
Christian Engström
AS Profile So it is apt that the deputy chairman of the Swedish Pirate Party, Christian Engström, should enter the Agenda Setters list for the first time at the relatively lofty position of number 12. The issue of... [08 Oct 2009]
Jimmy Wales
AS Profile Jimmy Wales, co-founder of the free encyclopaedia Wikipedia, is a familiar face on the Agenda Setters list and one whose star is rising. The wiki is a pervasive and visionary milestone for web 2.0," as... [08 Oct 2009]
John Chambers
AS Profile Cisco CEO John Chambers is no stranger to the Agenda Setters list - 2007 saw him ranked in the top five with the judges impressed by his handle on web 2.0 developments. As one Agenda... [08 Oct 2009]
Niklas Zennström
AS Profile As such, he's a regular feature on the Agenda Setters list. As one Agenda Setters judge notes: "The green agenda is giving a greater importance to... [08 Oct 2009]
Lord Stephen Carter
AS Profile One Agenda Setters judge described Carter as "the figurehead for the call for ubiquitous broadband across Britain". Lord Stephen Carter made his mark in his former guise as UK Minister for... [08 Oct 2009]
Dr Robert Atkinson
AS Profile It's the first time the founder and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (Itif) has made it into the Agenda Setters list. Dr Robert Atkinson and the influential... [01 Oct 2009]
Tim Berners-Lee
AS Profile While last year's Agenda Setters' winner might have slipped to number eight this year, if anything he is playing an even greater role in the world of technology in 2009. The inventor of the world wide... [30 Sep 2009]
Stephen Fry
AS Profile Fry gets his place on the Agenda Setters list for his role as the acceptable face of technology, or, as one Agenda Setters judge rather pithily put it, for being "the... [30 Sep 2009]
Rupert Murdoch
AS Profile But while News Corp's brands may be significant individually, Murdoch's continued presence on the Agenda Setters list is once again down to his sheer political weight and the breadth of his empire,... [30 Sep 2009]
Nicholas Negroponte
AS Profile Nicholas Negroponte, the man behind the XO - the device formerly known as the $100 laptop - makes his third appearance on the Agenda Setters list. While his own agenda of bringing better... [30 Sep 2009]
Michael Dell
AS Profile While the computer hardware market may be on the wane, 2009 marks a return to the Agenda Setters list for Michael Dell. Since founding the computer maker in 1984 with savings of just $1,000 he has become... [30 Sep 2009]
Michael A Cusumano
AS Profile Michael Cusumano has quite simply "changed the way we think about the business cycle of computer firms", according to one Agenda Setters panellist. But, like many Agenda... [30 Sep 2009]
