Roundup: Intel’s Craig Barrett to retire, Verizon Wireless shows off web phone, NetApp is best place to work
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Intel Chairman Craig Barrett will retire: The 69-year-old former CEO of Intel will leave his job as chairman at the company’s annual shareholder meeting in May. He will be replaced in the non-executive chair role by Jane Shaw, who joined the company’s board in 1993. Barrett will spend more time on his interests in healthcare and education. He gave a swan song keynote at the recent International Consumer Electronics Show.
Qimonda files for bankruptcy: Memory chip maker Qimonda, the former memory chip division of Siemens, had a tough time weathering the latest downturn, which has caused memory chip prices to crater.
Comscore says Internet population tops a billion: China has surpassed the U.S. as the country with the most Internet users. But only 15 to 22 percent of the world’s population is online.
Verizon Wireless shows off an Internet phone: The phone company says the new Verizon Hub will bring next-generation services into the home, such as text-messaging and web searching.
NetApp tops Fortune’s list of best companies to work for: The storage appliance maker beat out Google and a bunch of other Silicon Valley companies for the top position on Fortune’s list.
Village Voice Media-owned social networking site LikeMe confuses “advertising” with “reviews”: VVM’s own ad representatives have written the majority of reviews on the LikeMe site.
Microsoft Zune sales slipping: The company reported in an SEC filing that Zune sales are way down. Will it survive the current round of cutbacks?
Samsung posts quarterly loss: Sinking prices for TVs and memory chips hurt the company’s results.
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