Last week, we looked at the geeks who created iconic technologies. This week, we examine the executives who pushed those technologies into becoming the basis of some of the largest businesses in the world.

Movers and stinkers from the world of business

As we bring our Information Overload summit to a close, we have decided to name and rank the biggest culprits for the overload, the issues which more than anything else are causing companies to drown in a deluge of data..

Larry Ellison has lost his position as the most highly compensated company executive in America..

We take a look back at the tech products that were so overdone by marketing hype, that by the time they were released, most failed to meet expectations.

A different kind of pay to play.

From Betamax to Amiga, here's a list of those IT innovations that fell under the bulldozer. Some were cruelly robbed of their advantage, others threw it away with bad management

Better graphics and improved tabbing.

Pretty much every new product gets hyped as a potentially disruptive technology these days, and usually nobody outside of the company's marketing department actually believes it.

Steve Jobs will not be attending Apple’s annual shareholder’s meeting later this month, the first time he has missed the event..

Shift in corporate structure to better take on Dell.

Techcrunch50 panel scathing of big media.

They say that behind every great man there’s a great woman, although these days it could just as well be the other way around..

Steve Ballmer for cabinet, says presidential hopeful.

Randal Schwartz clears his name after 12 years.

Some of the people on this list are successful billionaires, Some Nobel prize winners or high-tech nomads. However, some individuals are weird even by geek standards.

Better security technology means that hackers are focussing on the point where humans meet machines as a way to hack systems..

Attendance drops by nearly a quarter as the first head count from the Vegas tech expo emerges.

Open source fans gather to hit out at Microsoft DRM.

For every way that the web has improved life, it has also made things more complicated, frustrating and dangerous..