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Founder of Silk Road loses appeal, will spend rest of his life in jail

Paul Hill — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 03:40:01 +0000

A court has rejected an appeal from the Silk Road drug market founder, Ross Ulbricht. He will continue to serve his life sentence that he was handed for drug trafficking and money laundering. Read more...

Stardock announces Founder's Program for resurrected Star Control franchise

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 08:14:01 +0000

Stardock has recently announced a refresh of the Star Control series, with a new game on the way and a Founder's Program for fans who want to get an early look at the game. Read more...

Pirate Bay co-founder arrested after two years on the run

Andy Weir — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 07:34:46 +0000

Peter Sunde, co-founder of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, has been arrested in Sweden following almost two years on the run, after being sentenced to prison for copyright violations. Read more...

Opera founder resigns over differences with board

Denis Wong — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:03:06 +0000

The co-founder of Opera Software, Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner, has handed in his resignation from the company, ending a term that began with the company's creation in 1995. Mr. von Tetzchner was at the helm... Read more...

Era of privacy over, says Facebook founder

Matthew Hopson — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:25:05 +0000

Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerburg, has said that the rise of social networking within the last decade means that people no longer expect privacy, according to the Guardian. Speaking at TechCrunch's "Crunchie" awards in San Francisco... Read more...

Ten years later, a "Third" Google founder is revealed?

Tom Warren — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:06:31 +0000

Just as Google is celebrating its 10th anniversary, a man claiming to be the "third" founder of Google has come out to stake his claim to history. In the video above, a man calling himself... Read more...

Office Live Documents - Hotmail Founder Challenges Microsoft

Steven Parker — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:05:43 +0000

Sabeer Bhatia sold Hotmail to Microsoft in 1997 for around $400 million. After selling Hotmail, Sabeer tried new ventures but none of them were very successful. Now Sabeer has decided to challenge the cash cow... Read more...

Windows DRM Not Up To Snuff, Claims BitTorrent Founder

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:36:21 +0000

On the opening day of the VON conference, Bram Cohen (the founder of BitTorrent) was among several others who spoke out against digital rights management software and specifically the implementation of it in Microsoft Windows,... Read more...

Freenode's founder passed away

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 22:10:56 +0000

Neowin has just gotten word that the Creator of the Freenode IRC network, Rob Levin (aka lilo) has passed away. Although there is not much information yet on the subject, this is what fellow Freenode... Read more...

We Were Evil, Google Founder Admits

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 09:05:27 +0000

Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin acknowledged the dominant internet company has compromised its principles by accommodating Chinese censorship demands. He said Google is wrestling to make the deal work before deciding whether to reverse course.... Read more...

Wikipedia founder admits to serious quality problems

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 09:50:00 +0000

Encouraging signs from the Wikipedia project, where co-founder and Ã¼berpedian Jimmy Wales has acknowledged there are real quality problems with the online work. Criticism of the project from within the inner sanctum has been very... Read more...

Monster.com founder to form new venture

Michael Stanclift — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:30:44 +0000

Monster Worldwide Inc. said Monday that Jeff Taylor, who founded job search Web site Monster.com, is leaving the company in August to start a new Internet venture. Monster said it would provide some... Read more...

Dell founder invests nearly $100 million in Red Hat

Steven Parker — Fri, 13 May 2005 12:57:18 +0000

The investment firm that manages the private fortune of Dell Inc. founder Michael Dell invested $99.5 million in Red Hat Inc., the world's largest distributor of the Linux computer operating system, according to regulatory filings.... Read more...

Napster founder basks in funding, label support

Fri, 03 Dec 2004 17:45:15 +0000

With $10 million in venture funding and the backing of at least one major record label, Napster founder Shawn Fanning will officially unveil his new peer-to-peer music company on Monday. As previously... Read more...

Audiogalaxy founder tries new P2P venture

Tue, 27 Jul 2004 01:29:49 +0000

Two years after finding his way off the recording industry's "most wanted" list, Audiogalaxy founder Michael Merhej is back with a new peer-to-peer software venture. The Austin, Texas, programmer's new company, ByteTaxi,... Read more...

McAfee founder returns with 'legal p2p radio'

Mon, 07 Jun 2004 20:00:51 +0000

A former McAfee CEO appears to have found a way around the legal minefield hindering anyone attempting to enter the music sharing market: by a licence to webcast content. Mercora is a P2P... Read more...

Chinese PC maker Founder to install iTunes on all PCs

Tue, 18 May 2004 18:19:58 +0000

Apple Computer Inc. on Tuesday announced that Founder, a major supplier of personal computers to the Chinese market, will pre-install the Windows version of Apple's iTunes software on all of its PCs beginning... Read more...

Asustek founder resigns, criticizes management

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 30 Dec 2003 15:42:34 +0000

Wayne Hsieh, one of Asustek Computer's founders and the largest shareholder, resigned from the board and left his post as vice president of the manufacturing division last Friday and wrote an emotional email to former... Read more...

DRM music goldrush is a race for losers - mp3.com founder

Fri, 21 Nov 2003 16:46:03 +0000

Apple is leading a race of lemmings into the zero-profit business of closed music downloads, says the founder of MP3.com, Michael Robertson. "It seems kind of crazy to me, the economics don't make... Read more...

Linux Founder To Get Free Legal Counsel In SCO Suit

Fri, 14 Nov 2003 23:47:43 +0000

Open Source Development Labs, which employs Linus Torvalds, says it will pay its law firm, AterWynne LLP, to represent the creator of the open-source operating system. Linux creator Linus Torvalds, who was... Read more...

Netscape Founder Says Web Browsing Innovation Dead

Tue, 01 Jul 2003 18:36:42 +0000

Thanks Quick Reply. Marc Andreessen, co-creator of the pioneering Web browser Mosaic, said he laments that innovation has all but ceased on this essential piece of software that makes surfing the Net possible. "There... Read more...

Linux founder opens door to DRM

Fri, 25 Apr 2003 02:49:39 +0000

Linus Torvalds, the founder of the Linux operating system, threw a curve ball into the open-source programming community Thursday. In a posting sent to a key Linux-focused e-mail list, he outlined a... Read more...

Napster founder, key execs quit; bankruptcy looms

Darren Bolton — Wed, 15 May 2002 07:20:32 +0000

Napster founder Shawn Fanning quit the revolutionary online file-swapping service he created in his Boston dorm room in a mass exodus Tuesday that almost certainly signals the end for the once-feisty music service. ... Read more...