A Marina Bay Sands spokeswoman confirmed Arasi’s resignation but declined to elaborate.
Over a three-day period, Juniper Networks announced that two former Microsoft executives and one from Cisco were joining the company’s marketing and global partner efforts. – Juniper Networks is bulking up its marketing and channel prowess by raiding
the executive ranks of rivals Cisco Systems and Microsoft.
Juniper
last week announced that two former Microsoft officials made the jump to help
the networking company build up its enterprise marketing and global partner…
Santa Clara, Calif., Jan. 18, 2011– Intel Corporation today announced that Erik Huggers will serve as corporate vice president and general manager of the company’s Digital Home Group and become a member of Intel’s Management Committee. Huggers is director of the BBC’s Future Media & Technology division and serves as a member of the BBC’s Executive Board. He replaces interim general manager Brad Daniels.
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Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 didnt meet initial expectations, according to an LG Electronics executive quoted by a blog, although he declined to offer sales figures. – Microsofts Windows Phone 7 smartphone is proving an early
disappointment, at least according to one LG Electronics executive.
“From an industry perspective we had a high expectation, but
from a consumer point of view the visibility is less than we expected,” James
Choi, a marketing strategy and…
Steve Hoover will take over Feb. 1 for Mark Bernstein, who had held the top PARC executive position for 31 years. – Sixteen-year Xerox veteran Steve Hoover was introduced Jan. 11 as
the new chief executive officer of the company’s Palo Alto Research
Center.
Hoover’s appointment follows previous CEO Mark Bernstein’s retirement
from PARC. Bernstein had held the position for 31 years, guiding the
think tank …
Microsoft Server and Tools Business President Bob Muglia is leaving the company this summer, following other prominent executives over the past few months. – Microsofts executive-level departures have continued into
2011, with the announcement that Bob Muglia, president of the Server and Tools
Business, will depart the company this summer. Muglia is a two-decade veteran
of the company.
“While Windows and Office are household words, our Server
and T…
The two-day Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national executive opened here Saturday morning with party chief Nitin Gadkari, senior leader L.K. Advani and other leaders in attendance. The meeting was formally inaugurated at 11.30 a.m. The other leaders present are Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. The meet is being held at [...]
Goldman Sachs <GS.N> is scouting for an executive to manage its operations in Asia to succeed the region’s incumbent Michael Evans, the Financial Times said.
Evans has also been the co-chairman of Goldman’s business standards committee, which was formed in May when the bank was under pressure from US regulators, FT said.
Peter Blackmore, who has served as an executive with both HP and Unisys before working as president and CEO of UTStarcom, will now be ShoreTels CEO. – ShoreTel has named former Hewlett-Packard and Unisys executive Peter Blackmore as its new CEO.
The appointment of Blackmore, announced Dec. 13 by
the UC (unified communications) solutions vendor, ends a five-month
search for a new top executive that began in July when then-CEO
John Combs stepp…
The National Bank of Serbia (NBS) Executive Board voted to raise the key policy rate by one percentage point to 11.5 percent. In making this decision, the Executive Board took into account the need to contain inflationary pressures stirred up by the rise in agricultural product prices, regulated price growth and the effects of past depreciation of the Serbian dinar.
Oracle, Yahoo, Sprint Nextel and a handful of other companies found themselves called out by a new report for the size of their top executives’ pay packages. – Oracle, Yahoo and a handful of other tech giants found themselves singled
out by research firm Glass Lewis amp; Co.’s latest quot;Pay Dirt quot;
report, which details which executives are underpaid or overpaid relative to
their companies’ overall performance.
The firm assembled its lists of …
Cisco Systems executive Tony Bates will be the new CEO of Skype, the latest shift in the rapidly changing UC field. Bates is the latest executive to leave Cisco for a competitor. – Cisco Systems is losing another executive to a competitor, with Tony Bates
leaving to become CEO of video conferencing and
VOIP vendor Skype.
Skype announced Oct. 4 that Bates, who most recently was senior
vice president and general manager of Cisco’s Enterprise,
Commercial and Small Business D…
UPDATED: After a nearly two-month search, the world’s largest IT company on Sept. 30 named former SAP chief executive Leo Apotheker, 57, as its new president and CEO, replacing Mark Hurd. – Hewlett-Packard elected to go the road less traveled to find its new chief executive officer.
After a nearly two-month search, the world’s largest IT company on Sept. 30 named former SAP chief executive Leo Apotheker, 57, as its new president and CEO, replacing Mark Hurd.
It was a move few ind…
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved on Tuesday the fifth revision of the stand-by arrangement with Serbia. This allows the country to instantly use special drawing rights (EUR 366.5mn or USD 494mn) within the program.
Polycom lures away Joseph Burton from Cisco to become the company’s CTO, one of several executive appointments as the company looks to expand its unified communications business. – Polycom, which has seen rivals like Cisco Systems and Avaya grow their reach
in the unified communications space, is making high-profile moves of its own,
reorganizing its business strategy and revamping its executive lineup.
The biggest name to come to Polycom is Joseph Burton, CTO
for Cisco’s…
Goh, 47, will take charge on Jan. 1, according to a statement the airline sent to the Singapore stock exchange today. Goh, currently executive vice president for marketing and regions as well as chairman of the SilkAir regional unit, will join the airline’s board Oct. 1.
Chin Yau Seng, the current CEO, will return to Singapore Air as a divisional vice president, SilkAir said in an e-mailed statement today. Tan, 39, joined the carrier’s board in June and is currently a divisional vice president.
