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Eric Schmidt may no longer be the CEO of Google, but he's still more popular at his office than Steve Jobs is at his. Schmidt finished his Google tenure with an approval rating of 96-percent, according to an employee survey conducted by Glassdoor.com. That score was barely enough to edge out Jobs, who boasts a piddly 95-percent approval rating, down from 98-percent last year. The biggest loser? ...

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is going on a leave of absence, in order to devote more attention to his health. In an e-mail sent to all Apple employees, Jobs confirmed that the company's board of directors had obliged his request for medical leave, but assured that he wasn't relinquishing his position. "I will continue as CEO and be involved in major strategic decisions for the company," he wrote. In ...

Evan Williams, the co-founder and CEO of Twitter since 2008, announced today in a blog post that he would be stepping aside, and that COO Dick Costolo would be taking the company's helm. Williams wrote in the announcement: "Growing big is not success, in itself. Success to us means meeting our potential as a profitable company that can retain its culture and user focus while having a positive ...

Share The popcorn poster for David Fincher's 'Social Network,' the long-awaited film about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's rise to digital dominance, has finally been released via the film's official site. And, with an all-caps tagline that reads, "You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies," it's pretty, um, in your face. Framed in a pseudo-Facebook border, the poster's ...

The iPad has only been in circulation for a couple of months, but the device has already fallen prey to a major cyber attack, thanks to a gap in AT&T's security system. According to Gawker, a group of hackers recently succeeded in exploiting a security hole in AT&T's website, and walked away with the e-mails and ID numbers of over 114,000 iPad users. The list of those targeted by the ...

You may spend your spare time surfing the Web, hanging out with friends, or playing ultimate frisbee. Mark Zuckerberg spends his down time predicting who you're gonna hook up with next. That's right. Your romantic life is Zuckerberg's leisure. In the forthcoming book 'The Facebook Effect,' Fortune columnist David Kirkpatrick delves into the psyche of the Facebook CEO. And based on early ...

Eric Schmidt, chairman and CEO of Google, has looked into the crystal ball hidden deep inside the company's headquarters. Besides plenty of dollar signs for Google, Schmidt envisions a drastically different Internet five years from now than the one we know today. According to ReadWriteWeb, the CEO remarked during a speech atGartner Symposium/ITxpo Orlando 2009 last week that the Web of the ...

The realm of politics has long been a haven for aging California celebrities, including Ronald Reagan, Clint Eastwood, Sonny Bono, and, of course, the "Governator" Arnold Schwarzenegger. Since the beginning of the new millennium, though, another faction of well-known California personalities has been encroaching on that political domain. Instead of celluloid celebrities, the new group ...

With the announcement that Google would be moving into the OS realm, it became a lot tougher for Google CEO Eric Schmidt to perform his other duties on Apple's board of directors. Today, Schmidt, who joined the board in August 2006, stepped down from his position, citing conflicts of interest and saying the decision was mutual, according to CNN. In a statement, Apple CEO Steve Jobs lauded ...

Steve Jobs is more elusive than a yetti. Wearing a black long-sleeved shirt tucked into a pair of blue jeans, Apple co-founder Jobs was spotted yesterday by cameras while leaving the company's headquarters in Cupertino, California. Now that TMZ has photographic evidence of Jobs back at work after undergoing a liver transplant, the world wonders what's next. According to The Wall Street Journal, ...

Oh Lee Kun-hee, CEO of Samsung -- if you keep this up, you're going to make the Enron CEOs look like choir boys. The latest episode in the unending shame-game that is Samsung's list of corporate improprieties comes in the form of a an actual indictment against the electronic-maker's top man... for fraud. According to a report out of Australia, prosecutors in Korea have formally charged Kun-hee ...