I didnt realise that this kind of shit even happened to the top of executives. Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has been fired. Here is her email to all staff:
From: “Carol Bartz”
To: “all-worldwide@yahoo-inc.com”
Subject: Goodbye
To all,
I am very sad to tell you that I’ve just been fired over the phone by Yahoo’s Chairman of the Board. It has been my pleasure to work with all of you and I wish you only the best going forward.
Carol
This is why Yahoo is turning into a complete joke of a company!
This is the big news day of the year. Steve Jobs hasresigned as CEO of Apple. Apple is the world largest public company. Steve has handed over the chief executive job to Apple COO Tim Cook.
This news has been coming for a while, as Steve Jobs has been struggling a lot over the last few years with his declining health. Now he has made the very tough decision to step aside and let someone take over the huge responsibility that is the CEO of Apple.
On his resign, Steve Jobs sent the following letter to the Apple Board of Directors.
To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:
I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.
I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.
As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple.
I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role.
I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you.
The NY Times published recently a surprising event that took place in Adobe’s offices. A secret CEO’s meeting, Steve Ballmer from Microsoft and Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen, where they discussed the possibility about a possible merge and Microsoft taking over Adobe’s company.
Both of these technology monsters share a common enemy: Apple. Microsoft never had the chance to enter the mobile world and Adobe’s is struggling for not be forgotten since Apple decided they were not going to support Flash in their iOS (iPhones and iPads operating systems). And these are two big reasons for unifying and beat the same dragon.
NY Times also gives some details about this meeting, even though there’s nothing official, here are some of the topics of the meeting that took a little more than an hour: Adobe’s possible acquisition by Microsoft and possibilities for Microsoft’s Silverlight and Adobe’s Flash can co exist in the same operating system.
Specialists said that this acquisition could cost Microsoft 15 billion dollars.
What do you think? Can you see these two fighting against Apple?
He is quite sure that the real value from the web platform resides in multiple websites and applications across the Internet, and Facebook it’s not going to try to centralize all that; even better, Facebook will represent the entire platform that any user will need as for identification, business, relationship, etc. etc.
Here’s the interview with the whole concept that Mark gave it to Robert Scoble:
Recently there were reports of something very big happening inside of Twitter. Many were left to speculate that layoffs were to ensue, or perhaps a big announcement, but either way, the word was that it would indeed by monumental.
Yesterday it was announced that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey would be stepping down from his position, allowing Evan Williams, former Chairman to move into the position. Jack Dorsey is not gone from the scene, but rather will be taking over Evan’s former position as Chairman.
Why the sudden move? Economy? Direction?
Many of us are familiar with the problems Twitter experienced earlier this year with scalability issues, ultimately making Twitter unreliable, and forcing users to seek out alternatives such as Friendfeed. While dealing with this problem, this gave competition like Friendfeed the chance to move ahead of Twitter in terms of innovation, offerings, and development.
Could Twitter have become too stagnant and in need of fresh blood? Kinda ironic since both Evan and Jack are considerably young in the industry, but just goes to show you how fast things can move in the tech world.
It will be interesting to see what Evan Williams can do with Twitter and what new ideas might be implemented into the Twitter property in the near future.
Who said it? Mark Zuckeberg, Facebook’s CEO.
