Top Microsoft Web executive to depart
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Microsoft Corp. announced the departure of several executives Thursday, among them a Silicon Valley veteran recruited to help fix its unprofitable Web business and one in charge of marketing Windows Vista, and the promotion of more than a dozen others across the company.
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Terry S. Semel, the ex-chief executive  who is credited with reviving Yahoo and then losing touch, is leaving the companyâs board.
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Terry Semel ended his six-year run as Yahoo Inc.'s chief executive officer on Monday, and the company's co-founder Jerry Yang will take over from him, the company said.
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As Microsoft Corp.   Chairman Bill Gates prepares to step back from the company he  founded, the task of finding new sources of growth for the  world&#039;s largest software company falls to Chief Executive Steve  Ballmer.
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The chief executive of Microsoft Corp&#39;s   Greater China business, Chen Yongzheng, has resigned,  the world&#39;s largest software maker said on Wednesday.
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WebLogic flat One of the executives credited with helping stabilize BEA Systems is quitting as the company continues to iron out troubling kinks in its global sales operations.â¦
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George Reyes will be one of only a few of the Internet search giantâs top executives to have left since its founding in 1998.
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Microsoft has announced the resignation of its head of acquisitions, Bruce Jaffe, two days after the company&#160;bid $1.2 billion for enterprise search expert Fast Search &amp; Transfer. Jaffe will retire on Feb. 29, the company said.Jaffe joined the company&#39;s corporate strategy group in 1995, moving on to become chief financial officer of its online services business MSN before taking the role of corporate vice president for corporate development, where he was responsible for the company&#39;s acquisitions and joint ventures strategies.&quot;Bruce&#39;s contribution to Microsoft&#39;s growth is much appreciated and we wish him well in his next endeavor,&quot; the company said in a statement.It&#39;s not clear yet what that next endeavor will be, although some reports say he is looking for a more entrepreneurial role in a smaller company.Jaffe, who has a Masters in Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, lives near Seattle.As architect of Microsoft&#39;s acquisitions strategy, Jaffe presided over its&#160;$6 billion offer for online advertising company aQuantive, a few weeks after Google bid $3.1 billion for DoubleClick.Microsoft representatives would not say what role Jaffe played in the company&#39;s bid for Norwegian company Fast Search &amp; Transfer, revealed Tuesday.
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(90 sec.) Web giant's chief U.S. sales officer exits a week after Jerry Yang takes over as CEO.
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Online auctioneer will stop supporting Microsoft's sign-in service.
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EU official leading antitrust case against Microsoft leaves for consultancy that has software giant as client.
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Borders' executive VP for emerging business and technology and chief strategy officer has resigned; position has been eliminated.
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Mitchell Baker has stepped down as the CEO of Mozilla Corporation, where she helped make the Firefox Web browser a potent rival to Microsoft&#39;s Internet Explorer.Baker is handing over the CEO job to John Lilly, Mozilla&#39;s chief operating officer, who becomes responsible for pushing out the updates to Firefox and Mozilla&#39;s Thunderbird e-mail software, the company announced Monday. Baker will retain her role as chairman and stay active within the group, she said.Baker has been with Mozilla since its inception. She was an attorney with Netscape Communications in the late 1990s when it created the Mozilla Organization, and she stayed with the group after AOL bought Netscape and helped to create the Mozilla Foundation in 2003.Since then the open-source browser has built a worldwide market share of about 15 percent, according to estimates, and as high as 30 percent in some European markets. Mozilla says it now has 125 million Firefox users worldwide.In a blog posting Monday, Baker said she&#39;d been thinking for some time about the best way to use her time and about which of her duties could be handled equally well by someone else. Those duties, it turns out, are the day to day management of Mozilla&#39;s software, while Baker sees a wider role for herself in improving the Web experience for end-users.&quot;I have a vision of the Internet and online life and a positive user experience -- and of Mozilla&#39;s role in creating these -- that is far broader than browsers, e-mail clients and even technology in general,&quot; she wrote.She said she&#39;ll focus on efforts to make the Web standards process more effective, make security &quot;understandable enough that people can protect themselves,&quot; and encourage more &quot;hybrid&quot; organizations like Mozilla -- &quot;organizations which serve the public benefit but support themselves through revenue rather than fund-raising.&quot;&quot;I want Mozilla&#39;s influence on the industry to go beyond the bits we ship as software. More particularly, I want to use the impact Firefox gives us in the market to get openness, collaboration and user control embedded in other products, services and aspects of online life,&quot; she wrote.Lilly, her replacement, will be focused on getting the next version of Mozilla&#39;s Web browser, Firefox 3, out of the door. He also wants to be more open about how Mozilla operates and how it will support itself in the future. &quot;I&#8217;d like us to start talking more in public about how the future looks for Mozilla,&quot; he wrote on his blog.Baker remains chairman of both the Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit side of the project, and the Mozilla Corporation, which was formed a few years ago to help raise funds and manage product releases.&quot;I&#39;ve been involved in shipping Mozilla products since the dawn of time, and have no intention of distancing myself from our products or [Mozilla Corporation,]&quot; Baker wrote.
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Following investor pressure for a management shake-up, Yahoo Inc. chairman and chief executive Terry Semel is stepping aside and will be replaced as CEO by cofounder Jerry Yang, Yahoo said yesterday.
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Microsoft Corp. has turned to an executive at The Walt Disney Co. to fill a vacancy created when the software maker fired its chief information officer.
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Meg Whitman, the Web-pioneering chief executive of eBay Inc., is preparing to retire after a decade at the helm of the online auctioneer, according to a published report.
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By ANICK JESDANUN  NEW YORK - Three senior executives are leaving AOL following a recent shake-up that brought in a veteran NBC executive as the online company's new chief executive, two people familiar with the matter said Friday.