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

Company announces 14 new vice presidents.

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..

Google is asking for suggestions on how to speed up the internet, and has launched an open conversation on the subject on a new site where developers can leave their ideas

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

Gone is some of the bluster as Microsoft makes a surprisingly down-to-earth Australian launch presentation for Windows 7 today

No matter how much we tell ourselves that we are rational, scientific human beings a Friday 13th still sends a tremor up some spines.

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.

Academic project to solve "humanity's grand challenges" sounds like sci-fi fans dream with classes on AI, robotics, cognitive computing and biotech

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

Senior executives at Mozilla have argued that recent proposals by Microsoft to appease European Commission (EC) anti-trust regulators over the unfair bundling of Internet Explorer (IE) in Windows products do not go far enough..

A Toyota executive says lithium battery costs are hurting electric car development and names fuel cells as the way of the future, dismissing electric plug-in models entirely. Are Fuel cells really the way?

Great for executives on the move thanks to size and decent battery life, but the missing optical drive disappoints

IT execs looking to open source options, says Novell.

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..

A decade or so on from the infamous Bill Gates pie-gate incident, it seems Microsoft executives are again under fire, literally.

Popularity of the little console is exploding, with Nintendo expecting to double the Wii user base. And its little brother, the DS, is also proving popular.

Company lays out idea of 'conceptual search' for the internet of 2019.