start-up board members
Is Facebook's FriendFeed acquistion all about talent?
News This would also be consistent with Facebook's minimal past acquisition history: the company bought little-known start-up Parakey two years ago with the primary objective of getting its founders, the... [11 Aug 2009]
Naked CIO: No outstanding CIOs? Pah!
Comment Senior leaders and board members love having excuses and there is no better scapegoat in any company than IT and the CIO in charge of it. Next time a CEO asks his board whether anyone... [10 Aug 2009]
Naked CIO: The board must follow corporate policy
Comment Board members should be held accountable for email and internet usage, just as other staff are, says the Naked CIO. The two reader comments to the article both questioned how to deal with... [06 Jul 2009]
Bangalore bashing: Recession gets nasty
Comment The city delivers in uninterrupted 24x7 cycles, whether it is the Christmas holiday season or the Indian Diwali festival, says Karnik, who is chairman of the recently appointed board of outsourcing firm Satyam Computer... [28 May 2009]
Photos: Tech ahoy in round the world yacht race
Photo Salter is responsible for documenting life on board Ericsson 4, enabling followers to view photography and video uploaded directly from the yacht. This is the navigation station on board Ericsson 4. The... [16 Apr 2009]
LinkedIn links up with old CEO
News Hoffman had stepped down as CEO in 2006 but remained chairman of the board and stayed active in product development operations. In two years, he has succeeded in this objective, transforming LinkedIn from a young... [18 Dec 2008]
ISO rejects latest OOXML appeals
News According to a statement late last week from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), "none of the appeals… received the support for further processing of two-thirds of the members of the ISO Technical... [19 Aug 2008]
Mentoring: Tech charity's recipe for success
Comment And while last week's event, attended by the charity's namesake, marked the £5m figure, Holway says the TLG is well on its way to £6m, with new members regularly coming on board. Fifty-eight per cent of... [09 Jul 2008]
BT gets into bed with FON
News BT has also invested an undisclosed amount in FON and gained a seat on its board. They do this either for a 50 per cent cut of the fees charged to their visitors or for the privilege of being able to surf other users'... [04 Oct 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 03.08.07
Round-Up How people judged you was based on how you expressed yourself through the considered metre of email and chat board postings and not how you looked. The two are also key members of the Initiative for... [03 Aug 2007]
The great working from home experiment
News Work Wise, an initiative set up to encourage the UK to adopt smarter working practices, has been cheerleading the benefits during Work Wise Week - culminating in the second annual work from home day last... [21 May 2007]
Editor's Blog: A 30,000ft view of the CIO
Comment After an horrifically early start to the day I've had a chance to reflect on silicon.com's latest Editorial Board dinner, which took place last night (though thankfully without an horrifically late finish). [30 Jan 2007]
HP leak-probe accused 'to testify against others'
News In an attempt to discover which member of HP's board of directors was leaking information to the media last year, the company's investigators allegedly duped phone company employees into handing over private records of... [12 Jan 2007]
Cheat Sheet: NFC and contactless payments
Cheat Sheet Three manufacturers are the front-runners when it comes to getting NFC off the drawing board and into our pockets: Samsung has committed to the tech and has prototypes in the offing; Nokia has produced an NFC shell for... [20 Apr 2006]
Boardroom Despatches: Sainsbury's cautionary tale
Comment In the UK, Tesco has just released bumper figures again, figures that must make tough reading for the board over at J Sainsbury, once upon a time the country's most successful supermarket chain. When IT-based... [19 Jan 2005]
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