The former Google executive replaces Scott Thompson, who resigned earlier this year.

Microsoft also announced details of a program to offer Windows 8 at a discount to consumers who buy Windows 7 PCs.

A federal court in California has ordered seven technology companies including Apple, Intel, Adobe and Google to face a private antitrust suit from five former employees, who alleged that the companies conspired to eliminate competition between them for skilled labor to suppress compensation and mobility of employees.

Mark Durcan, formerly chief operating officer, will replace Steve Appleton, who died in a plane crash.

The executive who built up IBM Global Services will become IBM's new CEO at the start of next year.

Shane Robison, who directs the company's research efforts, is retiring Nov. 1.

If Meg Whitman doesn't work out, Marc Benioff, Steve Mills, Charles Phillips or even Mark Hurd come to mind as candidates.

After firing Carol Bartz, directors are evaluating whether to sell Yahoo whole or in parts, the Wall Street Journal reports.

While still not great, the operating systems behind Apple desktops, laptops and phones are getting more secure, researchers at Black Hat say. While not recommended for corporate use unless it's in islands within larger networks, the OSX operating system has made strides, says Alex Stamos, who lead a team of researchers from iSec Partners that researched the OSX and Windows 7 operating systems.

The FBI targeted two operations, one of which cost victims $72 million, the FBI said.

Marius Haas, who led Hewlett-Packard's networking business through the 3Com acquisition that made it a broader competitor to Cisco Systems, is leaving the company for investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

SAP executive John Wookey, who was charged with developing a SaaS (software as a service) strategy for large enterprises, is leaving the vendor after about two-and-a-half years, the company said Monday.

A New York man who claims he's entitled to a sizable stake in Facebook has amended his initial complaint, adjusting his ownership claim and providing additional documents, including e-mails he allegedly exchanged with Mark Zuckerberg.

Microsoft and Toyota plan to use Windows Azure, the software giant's cloud offering, to build a telematics service that will initially serve people who have the car maker's electric and plug-in hybrid cars.

Salesforce.com plans to buy social media monitoring vendor Radian6, whose technology tracks conversations occurring on social sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, the company said Wednesday.

The game of musical chairs continues at Twitter, where co-founder and former CEO Evan Williams will step down as product development leader, a role that will be taken over by Jack Dorsey, another co-founder who had distanced himself from the company's daily operations.

Windows users who install the latest Java security patches may end up with a little more security than they bargained for, at least that's the risk they take if they don't pay close attention to the installation process.

IBM is returning fire to Oracle in an increasingly heated battle over who has the faster stack of middleware.

Gartner on Thursday lowered its growth forecast for worldwide PC shipments in 2011, joining a growing number of analysts who believe Apple's iPad 2 will bridge the remaining gap between laptops and tablets this year.

Kenneth Olsen, the computer industry pioneer who co-founded minicomputer maker Digital Equipment Corp., died at the age of 84 on Sunday.