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Open Source Development Labs, an industry-funded consortium, has cut a third of its staff, lost its chief executive and scaled back some technical work.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - EBay Inc. on Tuesday said it had appointed Daniel Lee as general manager for its research center in China, as the online auctioneer tries to expand its presence in the country.

What do you do?
I am responsible for all marketing, advertising and corporate communication initiatives for the organisation. This can range from forming great partnerships with up-in-coming organisations like IT Wire, to working with the Exec team to develop our key messages, to planning the annual Sales Conference and surveying our IT Contractors. It's a broad but senior marketing focused role and I love it!

Self awareness is a difficult skill to master. Most people are more likely to undervalue their personal worth than exaggerate it. It's more natural to focus on your faults than your strengths — especially if everyone else is bigger than you. Europe's small and medium-sized businesses contribute up to 80 percent of employment in some sectors and provide around 75 million jobs. Yet despite their enormous contribution, they have been woefully under-served by IT providers.

Speculation is growing that one of Sun Microsystems' most influential figures has quit following the decision to open source Java.

The CEO of Microsoft Germany has resigned citing differences with the company's US headquarters.

A meeting of the internet's top brass as well as UK politicians, businessmen, and academics will take place in London at 2pm today - and bloggers have been asked to make their voices heard.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The memoir of fallen Hewlett-Packard Co. leader Carly Fiorina, once America's most powerful woman chief executive, paints an unsparing picture of the internal power struggles and gender politics that prefigured America's most public corporate boardroom scandal.