The Taipei-based PC maker said the resignation reflected a board split on the future direction of the company.
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Hewlett-Packard ( HPQ - news - people ), whose board split over the departure of former CEO Mark Hurd, has now recruited five executives to its board with industry expertise but also with business ties to the new CEO, Leo Apotheker.
The company's board will be split evenly with six directors from Sprint and six from Nextel.
He left the board when we split Sara Lee Corp. into two companies.
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It is significant to note that Hess's Board recommended against this split only a few weeks ago.
Demand Media this afternoon said its board is considering a plan to split Demand into two separate public companies.
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The County Board of Supervisors, which is split three-to-two in favour of the new airport, is frequently paralysed by airport-related bickering.
Peterffy had taken the incoming data wire meant for the terminal and spliced it, soldering the split end into a circuit board that his team of programmers and physicists had built from scratch and embedded into the motherboard of an IBM PC.
The Southold Town Board last week considered zoning rules that would split the island into two parts: a research district, encompassing the current lab campus, and a sprawling conservation district where building would be all but prohibited.
He came to San Francisco from the Muath ibn Jabal Mosque in Detroit, where one of the congregants says his religious views split the community and the mosque's board.
Upon its exit, General Growth will split into two companies, each with its own board.
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Recently, a panel of bigwigs set up by the Conference Board went farther and urged that the two top jobs generally be split.
Yet two days before the Nov. 17 vote, after CSN considerably sweetened the pot, ISS split the baby, endorsing the Brazilian deal but supporting Esmark's board, which had union backing.
But in a move that shocked and angered players, the board of the ATP World Tour, the players' sole bargaining representative, passed up the offer after a split vote in November (ATP executive chairman and president Brad Drewett abstained).
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