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Today in Tech: Cisco CEO says company a disappointment
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"We have disappointed our investors and we have confused our employees."
-- Cisco CEO John Chambers in a company-wide email. (Wall Street Journal)Cisco CEO John Chambers sent out a company email admitting the company has lost its way and needs a major overhaul of its operations. He MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Apr 6, 2011 5:00 AM ET -
Barack Obama has an iPad
And he probably didn't have to wait in line to get it
From MarketWatch:
"I took my BlackBerry off for this show, because I didn't want it going off, and that would be really embarrassing," Obama said at a town hall meeting hosted by Spanish-language network Univision (the network will broadcast the town hall on Monday night). "But usually I carry a BlackBerry around," Obama told anchor Jorge MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 28, 2011 6:27 PM ETPosted in: Apple, Barack Obama, iPad, iPad 2, Jorge Ramos, President, President of the United States -
The annotated 'Tech Supper'
For a piece of Silicon Valley iconography, this photo is hard to beat
Below: The attendee list and who sat where, courtesy of Search Engine Land.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 18, 2011 3:35 PM ET -
The Silicon Valley Summit produces iconic picture
Held at venture capitalist John Doerr's house last night in the suburb of Woodside, President Barack Obama met the leaders of Silicon Valley to discuss jobs and innovation.
Full size, suitable for wall mounting, here. via Whitehouse Flickr
From the White house Flickr account comes this iconic picture of the heads of the largest Silicon Valley Tech companies including:
Seth Weintraub - Feb 18, 2011 12:24 PM ETPosted in: Barack Obama, Eric Schmidt, John Doerr, Larry Ellison, Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs, venture capital -
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President Obama wined and dined many of Silicon Valley's top execs last night during his first official trip to the San Francisco Bay Area. On the guest list: Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Oracle CEO MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Feb 18, 2011 8:33 AM ET -
Who's meeting the President
The White House has released the official list:
John Doerr, partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Carol Bartz, CEO, Yahoo! (YHOO)
John Chambers, CEO, Cisco Systems (CSCO)
Dick Costolo, CEO, Twitter
Larry Ellison, CEO, Oracle (ORCL)
Reed Hastings, CEO, NetFlix (NLFX)
John Hennessy, president, Stanford University
Steve Jobs, CEO, Apple (AAPL)
Art Levinson, chairman, Genentech (DNA)
Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google (GOOG)
Steve Westly, managing partner, Westly Group
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, FacebookPresident Obama is scheduled to meet Intel's (INTC) Paul Otellini in Oregon MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 17, 2011 6:23 PM ET -
An Obama shout-out for Steve Jobs
Cites Apple's CEO as an exemplar of the American Dream
"We celebrate wealth," said President Obama in his year-end press briefing Wednesday afternoon.
"We celebrate somebody like a Steve Jobs, who has created two or three different revolutionary products. We expect that person to be rich, and that's a good thing. We want that incentive. That's part of the free market."
Obama, who went out of his MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 23, 2010 7:19 AM ET -
Today in Tech
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.
Reports are surfacing that Yahoo's upper management must cut between 10% and 20% of its 14,100-strong staff. Yahoo says via an official statement the reports are "misleading and inaccurate," but outlets like TechCrunch are sticking by their MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Nov 12, 2010 7:40 AM ET -
Today in Tech: News around the Web
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.
ABC, CBS and NBC are blocking TV programming on their web sites from being viewable on the newly-launched Google TV. (IT World)
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 22, 2010 8:13 AM ET
HP is finally releasing a tablet, the Windows 7-loaded HP Slate MOREPosted in: ABC, Amazon, Apple, Barack Obama, Barnes and Noble, CBS, ereader, Facebook, Google TV, HP, Hulu, NBC, President Obama, Steve Jobs, Zynga -
Obama met with Steve Jobs Thursday
"This is a meeting the President was interested in having," said his spokesman.
The White House has confirmed a story that was echoing through the blogosphere all afternoon: President Obama did indeed meet with Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs in a San Francisco hotel Thursday.
The President was on his way from Seattle to two Bay Area fundraisers -- one at the home of clean technology venture capitalist Steve Westly and MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 21, 2010 6:43 PM ET
