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• Ballmer quits Microsoft board, cites NBA commitments

  Ex-CEO Steve Ballmer resigned from the Microsoft board today, effective immediately.

• White House's new IT engineer is sharp, witty, and blunt

  If the White House learned one thing from the Healthcare.gov debacle, it was that the website needs clear-thinking people who can see a problem for what it is. Mikey Dickerson may just be that person.

• Even crooks couldn't profit from Microsoft's Surface flop

  A former Microsoft finance manager was sentenced to two years in federal prison Friday after pleading guilty to an insider trading scheme that netted he and a partner more than $400,000.

• Peer pressure! Business pushing the cloud on enterprise IT

  When you graduated from high school, you might have thought peer pressure was mostly over.

• Gates cashes out another 20M Microsoft shares for $882M

  Bill Gates has sold another 20 million shares of the company he co-founded, driving his portfolio under the 300-million mark for the first time, according to regulatory filings.

• CISOs still struggle for respect from peers

  Chief information security officers (CISOs) continue to have a hard time gaining the respect of other C-suite executives despite the heightened focus overall on information security.

• Secrets to CIO Longevity

  Enterprises that keep the same CIO in place for years -- and even decades -- have a unique culture of collaboration and consistency.

• Mozilla knocks off 'interim' label, names Chris Beard CEO

  Mozilla today ditched the "interim" label for Chris Beard and appointed him CEO.

• Layoffs cool Microsoft employees' opinion of CEO Satya Nadella

  The percentage of Microsoft current and former employees who approve of CEO Satya Nadella has dropped since the company announced layoffs.

• 'Nadella Effect' makes Ballmer $US2.8bn richer

  Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's 'devices and services' strategy may be in tatters, discarded by his successor, Satya Nadella, but Ballmer must be smiling all the way to the bank.

• Apple's Eddy Cue takes cue from boss, auctions off lunch date for charity

  Apple's chief of Internet software and services, Eddy Cue, has put himself up on the charity auction block.

• Tip of the Hat: An inside look at the fall of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich

  Brendan Eich's ignominious departure from Mozilla this spring wasn't, as most of us think, due only to his opposition to gay marriage.

• Apple's new retail chief, Angela Ahrendts, pockets $5.3M after stock sale

  Apple's new retail chief, Angela Ahrendts, cashed in half of her first allotment of stock grants earlier this week, pocketing nearly $5.3 million just a month after starting to work at the Cupertino, Calif. company.

• Business users bypass IT and go rogue to the Cloud

  IT departments need to watch out for business units or even individual workers going rogue and bypassing IT to go straight to the Cloud.

• Apple CEO Tim Cook -- now, half-off

  A lunch date with Apple CEO Tim Cook went for $330,000 yesterday in an online charity auction -- a little more than half what someone paid last year for a 30-minute coffee break with him.