After years of anticipation, Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers has finally announced his retirement. Cisco's Board of Directors today appointed long-time Cisco executive Chuck Robbins as the company's

Cisco CEO John Chambers may be having his Steve Ballmer moment. The situations are analagous. Steve Ballmer, the Co-Founder and fomer CEO of Microsoft, stubbornly stuck around Microsoft long

Metro Ethernet Forum president Nan Chen explains the "Third Network" NaaS strategy, why life-cycle service orchestration (LSO) is so crucial to it, and what's good about eating your young.

The rumor mills of Silicon Valley are working overtime speculating about why Juniper Networks CEO Shaygan Kheradpir suddenly resigned last week from a corner-office job that could have paid

Hunter Newby, the CEO of fiber company Allied Fiber, believes the policies of the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States are impeding investment in telecom infrastructure -- and

Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg gets to have all the fun. Not only does he own a Hungarian sheepdog, but his net worth has hit $32 billion as

Cisco Systems (CSCO) is in the midst of cooking up a large reorg plan that may include Chairman and CEO John Chambers announcing his retirement as early as this

The media and investors prematurely panicked last night when Hewlett-Packard's (HP) results included an operational gaffe (releasing the results while the market was still open), and the news that

On a recent swing through Boston's revitalized startup zone, I got to visit Acquia, a startup that has lots of IPO potential for 2014. Acquia has ridden success of

With Microsoft drawing closer to the era of its next CEO, it's becoming clear that its Xbox division is coming under closer scrutiny as a potential spinoff candidate.

Tell me if this has ever happened to you: Your work in some large inter-galactic corporate empire. The CEO, who has a Ph.D. from MIT and advanced degrees from

Barracuda Networks, a network security provider, has filed for an initial public offering of up to $100 million, according to SEC documents filed on Tuesday.

FireEye (FEYE) and Rocket Fuel (FUEL) will be the most newly minted public technology companies after they priced Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) last night and hit the market in

The Tuesday after Labor Day often brings lots of deals. Sometimes the market likes them, sometimes the market hates them. This morning we learned that Microsoft (MSFT) is ponying

LAS VEGAS -- ITEXPO -- Life as an entrepreneur or a startup worker can be tough and challenging, sometimes seemingly up against all odds. So what keeps people going?

LAS VEGAS -- ITEXPO -- One of the hot technology buzzwords these days is "M2M" -- for Machine to Machine Internet connectivity, also known as the Internet of Things.

You would think after reading the wide-ranging indictment of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in the technology and business press, he had run Microsoft into the ground and driven his

As a media person, I hear lots of distress about the future of the industry. Content creation jobs are becoming more scarce, budgets are tighter, and there is a

It's the one-year anniversay of Marissa Mayer taking over as the CEO of the Internet site for old geezers, Yahoo. That means it's cause for the Silicon Valley sycophants

The big news in the tech press this week is Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is reorganizing his company to try to make it good again (or at least boost

In my 20 years as a journalist, investor, and a trader, there is no bigger warning sign for a company or its stock as when its executives start taking

Wow. Cisco. Who would have thunk the stock would be back below $20 when the new bull market in technology is pushing many shares to new highs. CEO John

I'm a key influencer. I'm also a technology evangelist, analyst, and journalist. And I can also leverage core competencies. Uh-oh. Sick of me yet?

Am I the only one perplexed by this Mark Zuckerberg fiasco? I mean, yes, the guy is the founder and CEO of Facebook. But he's mucking things so badly