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• GlobalFoundries names former Motorola Mobility chief as CEO

  GlobalFoundries, a contract chip manufacturer that works closely with semiconductor companies, appointed former Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha as its chief executive Monday.

• NSA critic Bruce Schneier joins security firm Co3 as CTO

  The network security industry's legendary free thinker Bruce Schneier Monday said he's taken a job as CTO at Co3 Systems, but that this in no way will curtail his determination to speak and write candidly on important topics such as the National Security Agency's (NSA) practices.

• Violin Memory COO quits two weeks after CEO ousted

  Flash storage specialist Violin Memory has lost another senior executive: COO Dixon R. Doll Jr. has resigned.

• Acer names semiconductor veteran as new CEO

  Taiwanese computer maker Acer has named Jason Chen, vice president of worldwide sales and marketing at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, as its new president and CEO, effective Jan. 1.

• HP's Whitman gets one heck of a pay raise

  After guiding Hewlett-Packard through one crisis after another, CEO Meg Whitman is now earning more than US$1 in annual salary.

• Fortinet sues Sophos over alleged employee poaching

  Fortinet, one of the biggest computer security vendors, is suing rival Sophos alleging it poached senior staff in breach of an agreement signed when a Fortinet executive jumped ship to Sophos earlier this year.

• Qualcomm will promote COO to replace Paul Jacobs as CEO

  Chip maker Qualcomm will promote current COO Steve Mollenkopf to the role of CEO next year. He will replace long-standing CEO Paul Jacobs, son of one of the company's founders, Irwin Jacobs, the company said Friday.

• Juniper EVP Muglia abruptly quits

  Bob Muglia, executive vice president of Juniper Networks' software solutions division, has abruptly resigned from the company following the appointment of a new CEO.

• Acer needs to focus on brand building, tablets under new leaders

  Acer will have to choose new leaders with expertise in tablets and brand-building to shed its reputation as a low-end seller of notebooks, analysts said.

• Flash startup Pure Storage fights EMC in trade-secrets battle

  A legal war between EMC and flash startup Pure Storage has escalated to charges of patent infringement and illegally obtaining a storage array to mine it for intellectual property.

• BlackBerry shakeup claims operating, marketing and financial chiefs

  BlackBerry's chief operating, marketing and financial officers are leaving as recently appointed CEO John Chen makes his mark on the struggling mobile vendor.

• Acer's next CEO abruptly resigns as founder Shih takes helm

  Acer's upcoming CEO has abruptly resigned from the troubled PC maker, in a surprise move that will result in founder Stan Shih temporarily taking over leadership.

• How to Close the Technology Skills Gap

  The first two articles in this series on the technology skills gap focused on numbers. Lots of numbers. Numbers of Americans unemployed and underemployed. Numbers of open jobs that firms cannot fill because they claim applicants do not have the needed skills. And the shocking numbers earned by American students in international assessment examinations that rank them 32nd in the world in mathematics and 22nd in science. Not a beneficial return on investment for another stunning number: the $600 billion American taxpayers spend annually on public education in the United States.

• Juniper taps new CEO with CIO roots

  Juniper Networks has found its new CEO.

• Microsoft abandons employee-ranking system

  Microsoft is abandoning a ranking system that has been blamed for hampering innovation and pitting employees against one another.