AMD: We Will Hire No CEO Before Its Time

Finding the right CEO takes time and can’t be rushed, AMD says. As the search enters its seventh month, investors may start to get impatient.
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AMD Struggles to Find New CEO

Millions of Americans are unemployed and looking for work, yet at least one well-paying job has gone unfilled this year.

Chambers Promises Changes at Cisco, But the Task Ahead Is a Big One

Cisco CEO John Chambers promises changes, but problems at the networking giant run deep.

Was Apotheker HP’s First Choice of CEO? [Updated]

Hewlett-Packard’s decision to appoint former SAP chief Leo Apotheker as CEO was a move few industry observers saw coming. “It’s a bit of a head-scratcher,” one veteran software executive told me, noting that an enterprise guy like Apotheker wasn’t an obvious choice to head HP, a company whose strengths lie in hardware and consumer technology.

New York Slaps Intel With Antitrust Suit

Looks like it’s going to be a very busy fall for Intel legal. This morning, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against the company, alleging that it violated state and federal laws with a “systematic campaign” of illegal conduct.
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Intel Announces Unprecedented Growth in Antitrust Investigations

What a lousy week for Intel, yeah? First Korea’s Fair Trade Commission fines the company $25 million for abusing its dominant market position in the country and offering discounts to PC makers in an effort to drive rival AMD out of the market. And now Federal Trade Commission has opened a formal investigation into its pricing practices.

New York AG: AMD x86ed by Intel?

There’s a reason Intel’s processors are in more than four out of five x86 computers sold in the global market and–like the European Union, Japan and South Korea–New York’s attorney general thinks it might be an anticompetitive one. Empire State AG Andrew Cuomo today opened a formal antitrust investigation against Intel to determine if it [...]

John Channels Carly Fiorina and It Ain't Pretty

John Paczkowski reads a lovely selection from Carly Fiorina’s appalling memoir, “Tough Choices”, about her clearly hostile feelings for former Compaq head Michael Capellas. The screamingly unhappy merger partner of the former Hewlett Packard chief, Capellas was named today as transaction processor First Data’s new CEO, despite the fact that Fiorina tried to strike a [...]

Capellas: Don't Cry for Me Fiorina

Capellas: Don’t Cry for Me Fiorina

Doin' the Curly Shuffle

Doin’ the Curly Shuffle