3 posts and columns on Anne Mulcahy

Should the Next Commerce Secretary Be a Tech Exec (or Would It Cause a Schmidtstorm?)

in News on March 8, 2011 at 6:30 am PT

Yesterday, the Obama administration dribbled out the news that it was going to nominate current Commerce Secretary Gary Locke as the next ambassador to China. The move leaves open a post that could get a true turbocharge if it were filled by an exec from the fast-growing and innovative digital arena. Here are BoomTown’s nominations.

Don’t Tell a Soul! Media, Tech Moguls Take Manhattan for Semisecret Quadrangle Conference.

in Media on November 3, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

Wouldn’t you like to bump elbows with media moguls and hear from the likes of Eric Schmidt, Biz Stone and James Murdoch? Me too! Alas, Quadrangle’s Foursquare conference is closed to the public and the press. But at least I can tell you whom you won’t be hearing from.
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Xerox CEO: Get Me 3,000 Copies of This Pink Slip, Pronto

in News on October 24, 2008 at 11:26 am PT

The worsening econalypse is inspiring worker reductions and other cost-cutting moves across the tech industry. The latest company to take a hatchet to its operating costs: Xerox, which plans to sack five percent of its workforce, or about 3,000 jobs, in an effort to cope with an “unpredictable economy.”