Cisco Names Charles Robbins to Succeed C.E.O. John Chambers, Part of Generational Shift at Tech Firms
By QUENTIN HARDY
Mr. Chambers, one of the longest-serving chiefs of a public Silicon Valley company, will step down on July 26.
Dave Goldberg in the offices of SurveyMonkey, where he was chief executive, in 2013.
The chief of SurveyMonkey, who was married to Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook, collapsed while exercising at a Mexican resort, according to a government official.
Dave Goldberg and his wife at a tech conference in 2013. Both often left their offices at 5:30 to eat dinner with their children.
The late chief executive of SurveyMonkey and husband of the Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg was raised around “woman power” and was an avid supporter of female achievement.
Mr. Chambers, one of the longest-serving chiefs of a public Silicon Valley company, will step down on July 26.
When Apple introduces its new TV box this summer, the remote control will gain a touch pad and also be slightly thicker than the current version.
Users taking advantage of the live-streaming app Periscope to watch the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight saved themselves about $100 and sent a potentially worrisome signal to rights holders.
The stakes are high, and the valuations lofty, in a country that is adding five million new Internet users, many of them on mobile, a month.
Venture capitalists, intimidated by Google search for a decade, have begun investing hundreds of millions in new search efforts for mobile phones.
AltSchool operates four schools in the San Francisco area with tuition at around $20,000 annually.
Mr. Lechleider helped invent DSL technology, which enabled phone companies to offer high-speed web access over their infrastructure of copper wires.
Paul Allen, who founded Microsoft with Bill Gates 40 years ago, says the most daunting task the company faces is getting momentum in the mobile market.
The use of emoji — the collection of happy faces and other images that can be used to communicate feelings and sentiments — has become so pervasive on Instagram that the use of Internet slang formed from letters has decreased.
Apple, IBM and Japan Post are partnering to provide a technology service for older adults. The venture reflects the larger ambitions of each company.
Jeff Bezos, chief executive of Amazon.com, said in a statement that the spacecraft reached 58 miles high and parachuted to a landing in the West Texas desert.
The performances illustrate the way investors are questioning whether social media companies can keep their growth rates vigorous enough to justify their valuations.
The reshaped Microsoft that Satya Nadella, the new chief executive, envisions has fewer internal fiefs and is more willing to favor big bets on new technologies over protecting legacy cash cows.
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A series of apps fill in information on the darkened sky, from red dwarf stars to the International Space Station.
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Tesla, Volvo, Audi and Cadillac all plan to release vehicles that enable some hands-free driving within the next year, but few states have laws on the books.
As Congress moves to take the government out of the business of bulk collection of domestic calling data, the National Security Agency is hardly resisting.
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