This Federal Express disciple, who became the CEO of E-Trade in March 1996, insists that the company has moved beyond the online brokerage business to a new battlefront: unified online finance.
Dillon will replace retiring president and CEO John E.
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"Well, the first sign that my new state university academic adviser job was a bad move was the fact that my future boss arrived 35 minutes late for our interview, breezing in after taking two of my future co-workers to lunch, " recalls Carmin Wharton, founder and CEO of e-BlackWomenNetwork.com.
My guest today is the founder and CEO of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.com -- Jack Ma.
We received an e-mail from our CEO announcing salary freezes and no promotions.
It quickly led to the parody Tumblr account, Ballmer on Ballmer, on which spoof e-mails from the CEO are posted.
In an interesting wrinkle, the latest round of speculation has Jack Ma, CEO of Chinese e-Commerce company Alibaba, being approached by private equity firms about possibly bidding for Yahoo!
"There was so much demand, they filled 2 million seats in hours, " Sanders said, quoting an e-mail from AEG Live CEO Randy Phillips sent to AEG's owner.
When he found it, he quickly hacked into its corporate servers, sent a note to its CEO's unlisted e-mail address (both announcing the security breach and asking for a job) and then moved to New York to become its lead programmer.
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In the release, CEO Jeff Bezos focused on e-books, noting that the company has more than 130, 000 in-copyright books that are exclusive to the Kindle store.
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He's CEO of ShopRunner, a subsidiary of e-tail-services company GSI Commerce that recently launched a Prime-like service for a collection of offline retailers.
But It could, at least, become part of the charismatic CEO's learning curve: "When I joined in 1980, we had about 30 employees, and we never dreamed, in our wildest imaginations, that we would eventually employ over 50, 000 people in more than 70 countries, " Microsoft's CEO was once quoted as writing in a company e-mail.
They started an e-mail weekly newsletter, and since they started, their CEO said they can't handle the amount of inquiries they're getting.
Here's a disturbing thought: At most companies, low-level tech staff can spy on e-mails sent by everyone from their cubicle neighbors to the CEO.
Kwon Eun Jong, ceo of Worldposting.com, a Seoul-based e-commerce company, says that she has witnessed more than 20 start-ups close down in the past six months.
In 1996, Sony Corp. had to break its no-comment policy on acquisition rumors when a fake e-mail purportedly from its chairman to Apple Computer's CEO started making the rounds.
That should make a big difference, says Jason Goldberg, cofounder and CEO of Fab, making Fab one of the most social e-commerce sites.
He showed jurors an e-mail sent to AEG Live President Randy Phillips and Co-CEO Paul Gongaware by "This Is It" stage manager John "Bugzee" Houghdahl on June 19, 2009 -- six days before Jackson died.
U.S. CEO Odake has hinted that Uniqlo might run its entire global e-commerce platform from the U.S., where tech talent is abundant, and he openly suggests that he'd like to replace himself with an American executive to head up operations here.
Adam Hanft, CEO of marketing firm Hanft Projects, also dashed off a quick e-mail to Forbes, the best snippets of which follow.
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"The thousands upon thousands of e-mails released today show a very engaged Governor Sarah Palin being the CEO of her state, " said Tim Crawford, treasurer of Sarah PAC, Palin's political action committee.
Earlier this year, E-Trade brought in former Barclays COO Paul Idzik as chief executive, replacing interim CEO Frank Petrilli, the seventh person to take that role since late-2007.
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Alan Todd , CEO of Knowledge Planet, says the news out of MIT can only increase demand for the e-learning software his company sells to businesses, which use it to get content from top universities.
Over the last ten hours he's interviewed two potential VPs for his new video startup, answered hours' worth of e-mails about the music platform he's backing, Spotify, and met with a potential CEO for his Facebook charity app, Causes.
Patrick Boyle, president and CEO of the American Meat Institute, told King that the stories of people sickened or killed by E. coli infection are tragic, but there is a wider context.
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