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| Aug. 1 |
Yahoo |
Board Re-Elected| Leadership faced only a smattering of criticism at the annual meeting today over their handling of a failed Microsoft takeover bid | | |
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| Jun.4 |
Yahoo |
Investor steps up Yahoo campaign| Outraged by new details about Yahoo efforts to complicate Microsoft takeover bid, Carl Icahn says he believes Yahoo's board will have to be fired | |
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| May.15 |
Yahoo |
Icahn Picks 10 Directors| Billionaire investor Carl Icahn officially launched an effort to unseat Yahoo board to pressure to restart merger talks with Microsoft | | |
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| Mar.15 |
San Francisco |
Second Life creator steps down Philip Rosedale, the founder and chief executive of Linden Lab will step down. He will become chairman of the board
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| Mar.7 |
Palo Alto |
Facebook Founder Makes Forbes List Forbes has released its annual list of the world's richest people and Mark Zuckerberg, 23, has joined the ranks with a fortune of $1
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47 Bay Area billionaires on Forbes list
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| Mar.5 |
San Francisco |
Allegations swirl around Wikipedia's Wales Jimmy Wales, famous for creating the online encyclopedia, is facing allegations that he abused the trust of the community he helped build
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| Mar.4 |
Palo Alto |
Facebook Hires Top Google Exec As COO VP of global online sales Sheryl Sandberg's defection from Google, represents a coup for Facebook
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| Jan.22 |
eBay |
CEO Preparing to Retire The Wall Street Journal: Meg Whitman is preparing to retire after a decade at the helm of the online auctioneer
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| Nov.12 |
Adobe |
CEO steps down, Narayen to take helm CEO Bruce Chizen said he would step down, and President and Chief Operating Officer Shantanu Narayen will replace him on Dec. 1
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| Jun.18 |
Yahoo |
CEO Terry Semel steps down from post| The chief executive of internet search firm has quit his position and has been replaced by co-founder Jerry Yang. Semel has been under pressure amid disappointing trading results and the growing... | |
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Great America Against 49ers Stadium Plan
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| Feb.6 |
San Francisco |
Gates speaks at cyber security conference Microsoft Corp. Chairman: Keeping information secure in this age of laptop-lugging workers is the most formidable challenge
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| Oct.11 |
Santa Clara |
McAfee fires president; CEO retires Antivirus software provider fired Kevin Weiss, and announced that George Samenuk will retire after options probe
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| Apr.13 |
Siebel |
Shaheen replaced Lawrie as CEO Michael Lawrie has resigned by mutual agreement with the board. Director George T. Shaheen named to replace him
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| Apr.9 |
Google |
Execs paid $1 a year Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, CEO Eric Schmidt, asked that their annual pay be cut to $1
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| Oct.1 |
Pleasanton |
 PeopleSoft fires CEO Craig Conway| David Duffield appointed as CEO; Kevin Parker and Phil Wilmington as co-presidents. Sales of new licenses exceeded $150 million | |
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CEO Jobs Says Has Cancer Surgery
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| May.3 |
Siebel |
Tom Siebel steps down as CEO Tom Siebel is turning the reins over to Michael Lawrie, IBM Corp.'s former head of sales
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| Jan.12 |
Oracle |
 CFO Henley named as new chairman Business software maker is replacing its colorful co-founder Larry Ellison, who will remain CEO
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| Nov.3 |
Emeryville |
Ask Jeeves Names New CEO Web search provider named its president, Steve Berkowitz, chief executive officer, effective Jan 1, 2004
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| May.14 |
Napster |
Founder and CEO both step down Konrad Hilbers, chief executive officer, and Shawn Fanning, who created the song-swap program, both resigned
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| Aug.6 |
Google |
Google names E. Schmidt new CEO Co-founder Larry Page becomes president of products division. Sergey Brin was named president for technology
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| Jul.23 |
Napster |
Napster drops interim CEO Company is replacing Hank Barry with Konrad Hilbers, BMG insider
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| Apr.17 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo! names CEO Veteran Warner Bros. executive Terry S. Semel named as new chairman and CEO
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Yahoo! CEO to step down
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| Jul.3 |
Oracle |
President resign Oracle's No. 2 executive, Raymond J. Lane, quit after 8 years.
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