Bertrand Serlet, the guy who led the development of Mac OS X since the beginning, is leaving Apple. He was one of the heavyweights and a legendary figure at the company, even while he wasn’t well known by the general public. But why is he leaving?
Chief software architect Ray Ozzie may have been a man standing alone at Microsoft, daring them to be ready for a post-PC world. But his goodbye memo is an epic screed. Fake Steve handily summaries it: “We suck. I quit. Goodbye.”
Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie was Bill Gates’s hand-picked successor to the role, and now he’s leaving. What’s curious is that Steve Ballmer doesn’t plan on refilling the role. The email Steve sent out to employees:
Blood won’t stop gushing out of the Nokia wound. Ari Jaaksi, who was the vice president of MeeGo devices, has reportedly left Nokia. It’s not known whether he jumped or was pushed, but his departure follows chairman Jorma Ollila, executive vice president Anssi Vanjoki, and CEO and president Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, who’ve all left or are leaving the company.
Who here owns an LG phone? Is that three people I count? Everyone but those three people are partly to blame for LG’s CEO resigning, after every single one of their smartphones failed to sell over a million units.
What’s been put in the Finns’ herring recently? Something must have triggered a seismic change, with their third exec in as many days announcing his resignation. Chairman Jorma Ollila today confirmed he will resign come 2012.
Just days after Nokia announced a new CEO and President in the form of Steve Elop, key figurehead Anssi Vanjoki has declared his resignation. Vanjoki, who is the Executive Vice President, will be working out his notice for the next six months and no doubt supporting Elop’s transition from Microsoft to Nokia come the 21st. [WSJ]
We knew that plenty of Palm employees left once HP acquired the company, but now we know the latest one to jump ship: Peter Skillman, Palm’s Vice President of Design. Also known as the man who designed the Pre.
After months of debate surrounding the iPhone 4′s antenna issues, the New York Times is reporting that Mark Papermaster, the Apple executive responsible for overseeing the iPhone’s hardware, has left the company.
HP CEO Mark Hurd has resigned over a sexual harassment allegation levelled by a former HP contractor. The company says an investigation by outside counsel showed no sexual harassment violation, though there were violations of HP’s Standards of Business Conduct.
