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Seven ways to boost your workplace confidence
Comment Branson may not project confidence in the conventional sense of the word but his ability to engage and influence people, and to empathise with them in times of crisis, is one that many business leaders looking to boost... [29 Jul 2009]
Photos: Broadcasting live holograms across the Atlantic
Photo Musion has previously broadcast holograms of Sir Richard Branson, cartoon band Gorillaz, Madonna, Al Gore and Prince Charles. Performers in the UK took to the stage in the US yesterday as 3D holograms were beamed... [18 Jun 2009]
Photos: The top tech Twitterers
Photo There's also plenty of tech entrepreneurs and evangelists, including chairman of Virgin Group Richard Branson, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media Tim O'Reilly and Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia. Microblogging app... [23 Mar 2009]
The Road to Success When Simulations Fail: A Thoughtful Look at Finding the Good in Simulation Failure
White Paper Sir Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group of Companies, which boasts airlines, hotels, mobile phone services, and more among its entities, claims, "One always have to prepare for the worst-case scenario, and... [12 Feb 2009]
Tech in pictures: The best of 2008
Photo In January Sir Richard Branson unveiled the latest vehicle with which he hopes Virgin Galactic can make space tourism a viable pastime. In 2008 silicon.com has crossed the globe; delved beneath the streets of London;... [11 Dec 2008]
Gareth Lewis
CIO Profile Lewis joined Centrica from Richard Branson's Virgin Group, where he spent six years, first as CTO and then CIO. Gareth Lewis was appointed group CIO at energy company Centrica in November last year and he has wasted no... [11 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.04.08
Round-Up Virgle, we were led to understand, is a joint effort between the practical jokers from Mountain View and madcap Virgin boss Richard Branson. Richard Branson? However, as it happens, the rather strange... [04 Apr 2008]
Photos of the month - January 2008
Photo Sir Richard Branson unveiled the latest vehicle with which he hopes Virgin Galactic can make space tourism a viable pastime. Bill Gates gave his last speech at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in which he... [30 Jan 2008]
Photos: Virgin goes Galactic for SpaceShipTwo
Photo Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson (left) and Scaled Composites CEO Burt Rutan show off the final design for Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo at New York's American Museum of Natural History. Both are products of... [24 Jan 2008]
Centrica lands Virgin CIO
News Energy company Centrica has appointed Virgin's Gareth Lewis as new group CIO. Lewis joins Centrica in November from Virgin where he has been group CIO for the holding company of all the Virgin brands since 2002. [17 Oct 2007]
Bill Maguire
AS Profile From a standing start, Bill Maguire has built a lightweight and flexible technology set-up for the new Richard Branson-backed US domestic low-cost airline, Virgin America, which took to the air in August this year. [12 Oct 2007]
CIO power
AS Analysis The other airline CIO, at 25 on the list, is Bill Maguire at Virgin America, the Branson-backed US domestic low-cost airline start-up, which made its maiden customer flights this summer. In the past, few figures from... [12 Oct 2007]
Good and bad year for comms
AS Analysis Richard Branson, whose Virgin brand is now at the forefront of the UK's big cable player, doesn't get a look in this year, but an obvious rival of the Murdochs and those promoting 'free' broadband is the man who has... [12 Oct 2007]
Gareth Lewis
CIO Profile Lewis was appointed as Richard Branson's first group CIO for Virgin Management - the holding company for all the Virgin brands and assets, with revenues of $25bn - in 2002. What they say about him: "A long career in... [06 Jun 2007]
Caption Competition: Geeks in space
Photo The winning entry was: "Richard Branson had also applied for the space trip but, due to an administrative error, was being trained in zero-gravy.from Valérie Ganne. This competition is now closed. You can read all of the... [13 Apr 2007]
