Technology_Internet
Latest Stories
AP_717153270683
Daniel Ek is a Swedish entrepreneur and a technologist best known as the co-founder and CEO of the popular music streaming service Spotify. In 2005, Ek dropped out of the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden after eight weeks, according to Forbes. He founded an online marketing company called Advertigo. Ek sold the business to the Swedish company Tradedoubler. He later teamed up with its founder to start Spotify in 2008. As of 2017, Daniel Ek has an estimated net worth of over $800 million. His main source of income is Spotify, which is currently worth $8 billion and has over 40 million users worldwide. Ek has also been awarded the tile "Billboard Power 100's New No. 1" and is on numerous "wealth charts".
AP_493156087799
Larry Ellison is co-founder of Oracle Corporation and was CEO from its founding until September 2014. He is the executive chairman and chief technology officer of Oracle. As of February 2017, he was listed by Forbes magazine as the fifth-wealthiest person in America and as the seventh-wealthiest in the world, with a fortune of $55 billion. Ellison was born in New York City but grew up in Chicago. He studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and the University of Chicago without graduating before moving to California in 1966. While working at Ampex in the early 1970s, he became influenced by Edgar F. Codd's research on relational database design, which led in 1977 to the formation of what became Oracle. Oracle became a successful database vendor to mid- and low-range systems, competing with Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server, which led to Ellison being listed by Forbes as one of the richest men in the world
AP_17128697332037
Michael Dell is the founder and CEO of Dell Technologies, one of the world’s leading providers of information technology infrastructure solutions. He is ranked as the 37th richest person in the world by Forbes, with a net worth of US$20.8 billion as of February 2017. While a freshman pre-med student at the University of Texas, Dell started an informal business putting together and selling upgrade kits for personal computers in Room 2713 of the Dobie Center residential building. He then applied for a vendor license to bid on contracts for the State of Texas, winning bids by not having the overhead of a computer store. Dell was selling around $80,000 a month and decided to drop out at age 19 to pursue the business
AP_070205073698
Facebook, founded by Mark Zuckerberg, said the messages were tailored to be seen by people who had visited particular advertisers' sites and that none was targeted based on "personal information such as email addresses." (Associated Press/File)
china_clean_energy_27208.jpg
California Gov. Jerry Brown, left, shakes hands with China's Minister of Science and Technology Wan Gang after the signing a memorandum of understanding of Clean Technology at a hotel in Beijing, Tuesday, June 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
china_clean_energy_41979.jpg
California Gov. Jerry Brown waves to photographers as he arrives for the Clean Energy Ministerial International Forum on Electric Vehicle Pilot Cities and Industrial Development, at a hotel in Beijing, Tuesday, June 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
china_clean_energy_74281.jpg
California Gov. Jerry Brown, left, chats with China's Science and Technology Minister Wan Gang as they attend the Clean Energy Ministerial International Forum on Electric Vehicle Pilot Cities and Industrial Development, at a hotel in Beijing, Tuesday, June 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
china_clean_energy_10404.jpg
California Gov. Jerry Brown, left, shakes hands with China's Science and Technology Minister Wan Gang after signing a memorandum of understanding of Clean Technology at a hotel in Beijing, Tuesday, June 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
china_clean_energy_88785.jpg
California Gov. Jerry Brown, left, exchanges memorandum of understanding with China's Science and Technology Minister Wan Gang after the Clean Technology signing ceremony at a hotel in Beijing, Tuesday, June 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
6_5_2017_b4-berman8201.jpg
Illustration on needing to improve GOP messaging by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
1-K8ju3UKFNmvb3EIfhATJGg@2x.png
(Medium)
winner.jpg
Reality Leigh Winner (Image: Facebook)
winner.jpg
Reality Leigh Winner (facebook)
apple_showcase_59129.jpg
Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, speaks during an announcement of new products at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif., Monday, June 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
apple_showcase_83557.jpg
Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, speaks during an announcement of new products at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif., Monday, June 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
apple_showcase_61082.jpg
Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing, speaks during an announcement of new products at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif., Monday, June 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
apple_showcase_08588.jpg
Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing, speaks during an announcement of new products at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif., Monday, June 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
apple_showcase_32098.jpg
Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, speaks during an announcement of new products at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif., Monday, June 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
apple_showcase_47313.jpg
Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, speaks during an announcement of new products at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif., Monday, June 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
