Showing posts with label leaders. Show all posts
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Obama To Meet Steve Jobs And Other Tech Leaders For Dinner In S.F.

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President Obama will meet with Apple chief Steve Jobs and other high-tech leaders at a private dinner in San Francisco on Thursday night, according to reports.

Jobs was spotted earlier today leaving a cancer treatment center at Stanford University, but is apparently feeling well enough to have dinner with the prez. The event will take place at an unannounced private location.

Obama's last visit to the Bay Area was a $30,000-per-head fundraiser at the Palo Alto home of Google VP Marissa Mayer in October. He also met with Jobs for an hour in a hotel near the airport for that trip.

Other guests at the dinner will reportedly include Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Intel CEO Paul Otellini, and Cisco CEO Paul Chambers. Jeffrey Immelt, the former GE CEO whom Obama named as chairman of the new White House Council on Jobs and Competititveness last month, will also be there according to ABC News. Venture capitalists John Doerr and Steve Westly may also be on the list, says the San Francisco Chronicle.

The visit will be Obama's eighth official trip to California. He leaves Thursday night to visit an Intel plant in Oregon.

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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Mark Zuckerberg Is Sucking Up To Leaders In China

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Mark Zuckerberg is on vacation in China, but he's squeezing in plenty of business.

The Wall Street Journal reports Zuckerberg has met with executives of the country's biggest web companies.:

  • Charles Chao, CEO of Sina, a big web portal.
  • Wang Jianzhou, chairman of China mobile.
  • Robin Li, CEO of Baidu, the big search company.

What is Zuckerberg talking about with these guys?

Facebook is banned in China, so presumably he's trying to figure out how to get the government to loosen its restrictions. He's also probably doing some general research on the Chinese web market.

Of course, we wonder if these guys would even want to help Zuckerberg. If you're in charge of Baidu, or Sina, why open the door for a future rival?

See Also: The 10 Asian Tech Companies That Are Putting American Ones To Shame

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Monday, October 25, 2010

Microsoft Moves Into Leaders Category on Forrester’s 2010 Enterprise BI Platforms Wave Q4 ’10

Microsoft has moved from the Strong Performer Category into the Leaders Category on Forrester's 2010 Enterprise BI Platforms Wave.